The Independent Crossword March 7 2026 Answers

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Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 7 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Group of artists in a cryptic crossword?111 AcrossReveal answer → Large marble31 AcrossReveal answer → Arm joint53 AcrossReveal answer → Setter's leg-over?37 AcrossReveal answer → Mistake58 AcrossReveal answer → Distinctive characters about to abandon race with gold59 AcrossReveal answer → Footballer's mistake79 AcrossReveal answer → Conforming1310 AcrossReveal answer → Unabating insect swarms surrounding hospital910 AcrossReveal answer → Port and resort in Campania, Italy, between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno811 AcrossReveal answer → Grasping tool511 AcrossReveal answer → Scarcity of baked beans since Jesus was born711 AcrossReveal answer → Artist's secretary seen west of Bury712 AcrossReveal answer → Slidings played across the middle of piano913 AcrossReveal answer → English composer who wrote operettas with W S Gilbert1413 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish surrealist artist whose works include The Persistence of Memory1214 AcrossReveal answer → Star from One Direction's first disc #1 in Latvia415 AcrossReveal answer → Harvey ___, American businessman who founded an eponymous 'Tire and Rubber' company in 1900915 AcrossReveal answer → Radically new1316 AcrossReveal answer → Sicilian volcano that is the highest in Europe416 AcrossReveal answer → Irish county717 AcrossReveal answer → 1676 play by Aphra Behn subtitled Sir Timothy Tawdrey1017 AcrossReveal answer → Multiplied by518 AcrossReveal answer → Rats, for example, really dislike being skinned418 AcrossReveal answer → A run not scored off the bat in cricket519 AcrossReveal answer → Happening519 AcrossReveal answer → Opening strokes on one's belly?919 AcrossReveal answer → Raised edge320 AcrossReveal answer → Twisting brown river untouched by civilisation721 AcrossReveal answer → The periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods or the outer epidermal layer in reptiles722 AcrossReveal answer → Getting rid of cheap material723 AcrossReveal answer → One of the songs Elton John performed the song on the first series of The Old Grey Whistle Test in 19711024 AcrossReveal answer → Wilder bird of prey losing power it produces925 AcrossReveal answer → Small city that is capital of the Grand Port District of Mauritius925 AcrossReveal answer → Wipe clean before entertaining discontented artists526 AcrossReveal answer → See 241026 AcrossReveal answer → Till broken by whiskey company?327 AcrossReveal answer → Resident Medical Officer probes the data for in-house regulators1128 AcrossReveal answer → Surname of the family at the heart of William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury728 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki830 AcrossReveal answer → The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapilla532 AcrossReveal answer → New Zealand-born British novelist best known for The Herries Chronicle1133 AcrossReveal answer → Department of France whose capital is Lyons535 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly in India, a term of respect used of a European married woman838 AcrossReveal answer → Fictional borough of East London in EastEnders739 AcrossReveal answer → A language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan640 AcrossReveal answer → Nursery rhyme character who could eat no fat941 AcrossReveal answer → Elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electron442 AcrossReveal answer → Monty Python member who plays Brian Sleep in the 2026 TV series Small Prophets1243 AcrossReveal answer → Port in Hampshire nicknamed Pompey1047 AcrossReveal answer → 1966 Broadway musical by Jerry Herman448 AcrossReveal answer → Best Actress Oscar-winner for Klute and Coming Home951 AcrossReveal answer → Song from the musical Oliver! after which a 2008 BBC reality TV series was named1253 AcrossReveal answer → Title of the first episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister1455 AcrossReveal answer → Port in South Holland province that has the world's tallest windmills856 AcrossReveal answer →

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Formal agreement61 DownReveal answer → See 44141 DownReveal answer → Doctor with a degree in theatre studies?51 DownReveal answer → Taking terrible risk, 20 devoid of top and other clothing92 DownReveal answer → A book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc., to be recited daily in the Roman Catholic Church82 DownReveal answer → Deteriorate62 DownReveal answer → Strictest designation after Hemingway enters the canon?83 DownReveal answer → The first Spanish golfer to win the US Open73 DownReveal answer → Skiing, ice skating, etc123 DownReveal answer → Wryly incongruous64 DownReveal answer → Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta44 DownReveal answer → Struggling artist offloading two Teslas with electronic hoist54 DownReveal answer → Bank employee65 DownReveal answer → Opening feature?95 DownReveal answer → Henry Engelhard ___, German-born founder of an eponymous piano company in New York City in 185385 DownReveal answer → Reveal126 DownReveal answer → Bird is in hide66 DownReveal answer → Strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz106 DownReveal answer → Admit that, ultimately, the old lady must come first57 DownReveal answer → A collection of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896147 DownReveal answer → Luckily117 DownReveal answer → Lines representing reality outside without using metaphor98 DownReveal answer → An explosive device that throws out a number of smaller projectiles when it explodes118 DownReveal answer → In classical mythology, a princess of Tyre who founded Carthage49 DownReveal answer → English trio whose debut album yielded the 1984 hit singles Closest Thing to Heaven and Respect Yourself810 DownReveal answer → Card game612 DownReveal answer → Archaic term for a brood or nest of pheasants412 DownReveal answer → Retaliate on behalf of613 DownReveal answer → Depart this life? O, dead beheaded warrior, farewell!913 DownReveal answer → Insignificant volume? Turn the fourth of controls to eleven914 DownReveal answer → Tool614 DownReveal answer → Mineral used in building615 DownReveal answer → Famous Buddhist artist, straddling a pack animal, topless916 DownReveal answer → Black bats (these ones?)817 DownReveal answer → British motorcycle company founded by German immigrant Siegfried Bettmann in Coventry718 DownReveal answer → John Wayne's single line in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told2620 DownReveal answer → Mount new art after artist ruined atelier's openings620 DownReveal answer → The seventh sign of the zodiac521 DownReveal answer → Dance move at the end of function522 DownReveal answer → 1963 film starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn723 DownReveal answer → Go away and cry when one's bottom is pinched523 DownReveal answer → Stab to remove articles from battered sausage524 DownReveal answer → Style of music composed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, marked by the establishment of sonata form927 DownReveal answer → Breed of dog named after the home of the Dukes of Newcastle1428 DownReveal answer → A gastropod mollusc such as Helix aspersa529 DownReveal answer → See 521131 DownReveal answer → Latin term denoting legal work undertaken without charge734 DownReveal answer → See 202636 DownReveal answer → The cruellest month, according to T S Eliot's poem The Waste Land537 DownReveal answer → Principal pipes supplying properties with H201039 DownReveal answer → The palmlike plant, Carludovica palmata, whose leaves are bleached for making panama hats841 DownReveal answer → Olivier ___, French musician and organist whose works include the Turangalila-Symphonie842 DownReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for The African Queen1444 DownReveal answer → Andrew ___, cricketer who captained England to a 2-1 victory in the 2009 Ashes745 DownReveal answer → Series of computer games, the first of which, published in 1997, was subtitled The Fallen Lords450 DownReveal answer → 1925 musical comedy whose songs include Tea for Two and I Want to Be Happy1152 DownReveal answer → Graeme ___, Scottish snooker player who won the 2006 World Championship454 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 7, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.