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The Independent Crossword March 7 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword March 7 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 112 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Group of artists in a cryptic crossword?DIRESTRAITS11Across1 Large marbleTAW3Across1 Arm jointWRIST5Across3 Setter's leg-over?GEL3Across7 MistakeERROR5Across8 Distinctive characters about to abandon race with goldAURAE5Across9 Footballer's mistakeOWNGOAL7Across9 ConformingTOEINGTHELINE13Across10 Unabating insect swarms surrounding hospitalINCESSANT9Across10 Port and resort in Campania, Italy, between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of SalernoSORRENTO8Across11 Grasping toolTONGS5Across11 Scarcity of baked beans since Jesus was bornABSENCE7Across11 Artist's secretary seen west of BuryPAINTER7Across12 Slidings played across the middle of pianoGLISSANDI9Across13 English composer who wrote operettas with W S GilbertARTHURSULLIVAN14Across13 Spanish surrealist artist whose works include The Persistence of MemorySALVADORDALI12Across14 Star from One Direction's first disc #1 in LatviaIDOL4Across15 Harvey ___, American businessman who founded an eponymous 'Tire and Rubber' company in 1900FIRESTONE9Across15 Radically newREVOLUTIONARY13Across16 Sicilian volcano that is the highest in EuropeETNA4Across16 Irish countyDONEGAL7Across17 1676 play by Aphra Behn subtitled Sir Timothy TawdreyTHETOWNFOP10Across17 Multiplied byTIMES5Across18 Rats, for example, really dislike being skinnedOATH4Across18 A run not scored off the bat in cricketEXTRA5Across19 HappeningEVENT5Across19 Opening strokes on one's belly?VENTRALLY9Across19 Raised edgeRIM3Across20 Twisting brown river untouched by civilisationNATURAL7Across21 The periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods or the outer epidermal layer in reptilesECDYSIS7Across22 Getting rid of cheap materialSACKING7Across23 One of the songs Elton John performed the song on the first series of The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1971TINYDANCER10Across24 Wilder bird of prey losing power it producesGENERATOR9Across25 Small city that is capital of the Grand Port District of MauritiusMAHEBOURG9Across25 Wipe clean before entertaining discontented artistsERASE5Across26 See 24TINYDANCER10Across26 Till broken by whiskey company?TWO3Across27 Resident Medical Officer probes the data for in-house regulatorsTHERMOSTATS11Across28 Surname of the family at the heart of William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the FuryCOMPSON7Across28 Ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage ValmikiRAMAYANA8Across30 The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapillaGALAH5Across32 New Zealand-born British novelist best known for The Herries ChronicleHUGHWALPOLE11Across33 Department of France whose capital is LyonsRHONE5Across35 Formerly in India, a term of respect used of a European married womanMEMSAHIB8Across38 Fictional borough of East London in EastEndersWALFORD7Across39 A language of Afghanistan and NW PakistanPASHTO6Across40 Nursery rhyme character who could eat no fatJACKSPRAT9Across41 Elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electronMUON4Across42 Monty Python member who plays Brian Sleep in the 2026 TV series Small ProphetsMICHAELPALIN12Across43 Port in Hampshire nicknamed PompeyPORTSMOUTH10Across47 1966 Broadway musical by Jerry HermanMAME4Across48 Best Actress Oscar-winner for Klute and Coming HomeJANEFONDA9Across51 Song from the musical Oliver! after which a 2008 BBC reality TV series was namedIDDOANYTHING12Across53 Title of the first episode of the BBC comedy series Yes MinisterOPENGOVERNMENT14Across55 Port in South Holland province that has the world's tallest windmillsSCHIEDAM8Across56

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Formal agreementTREATY6Down1 See 44HUMPHREYBOGART14Down1 Doctor with a degree in theatre studies?DRAMA5Down1 Taking terrible risk, 20 devoid of top and other clothingRARASKIRT9Down2 A book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc., to be recited daily in the Roman Catholic ChurchBREVIARY8Down2 DeteriorateWORSEN6Down2 Strictest designation after Hemingway enters the canon?STERNEST8Down3 The first Spanish golfer to win the US OpenJONRAHM7Down3 Skiing, ice skating, etcWINTERSPORTS12Down3 Wryly incongruousIRONIC6Down4 Island of Indonesia whose capital is JakartaJAVA4Down4 Struggling artist offloading two Teslas with electronic hoistRAISE5Down4 Bank employeeTELLER6Down5 Opening feature?INCEPTION9Down5 Henry Engelhard ___, German-born founder of an eponymous piano company in New York City in 1853STEINWAY8Down5 RevealBRINGTOLIGHT12Down6 Bird is in hideSISKIN6Down6 Strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of HormuzGULFOFOMAN10Down6 Admit that, ultimately, the old lady must come firstGRANT5Down7 A collection of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896ASHROPSHIRELAD14Down7 LuckilyFORTUNATELY11Down7 Lines representing reality outside without using metaphorLITERALLY9Down8 An explosive device that throws out a number of smaller projectiles when it explodesCLUSTERBOMB11Down8 In classical mythology, a princess of Tyre who founded CarthageDIDO4Down9 English trio whose debut album yielded the 1984 hit singles Closest Thing to Heaven and Respect YourselfKANEGANG8Down10 Card gameBRIDGE6Down12 Archaic term for a brood or nest of pheasantsNIDE4Down12 Retaliate on behalf ofAVENGE6Down13 Depart this life? O, dead beheaded warrior, farewell!GOODNIGHT9Down13 Insignificant volume? Turn the fourth of controls to elevenNOVELETTE9Down14 ToolHAMMER6Down14 Mineral used in buildingGYPSUM6Down15 Famous Buddhist artist, straddling a pack animal, toplessDALAILAMA9Down16 Black bats (these ones?)BRACKETS8Down17 British motorcycle company founded by German immigrant Siegfried Bettmann in CoventryTRIUMPH7Down18 John Wayne's single line in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever ToldTRULYTHISMANWASTHESONOFGOD26Down20 Mount new art after artist ruined atelier's openingsARARAT6Down20 The seventh sign of the zodiacLIBRA5Down21 Dance move at the end of functionTANGO5Down22 1963 film starring Cary Grant and Audrey HepburnCHARADE7Down23 Go away and cry when one's bottom is pinchedSCRAM5Down23 Stab to remove articles from battered sausageGUESS5Down24 Style of music composed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, marked by the establishment of sonata formCLASSICAL9Down27 Breed of dog named after the home of the Dukes of NewcastleCLUMBERSPANIEL14Down28 A gastropod mollusc such as Helix aspersaSNAIL5Down29 See 52NONONANETTE11Down31 Latin term denoting legal work undertaken without chargePROBONO7Down34 See 20TRULYTHISMANWASTHESONOFGOD26Down36 The cruellest month, according to T S Eliot's poem The Waste LandAPRIL5Down37 Principal pipes supplying properties with H20WATERMAINS10Down39 The palmlike plant, Carludovica palmata, whose leaves are bleached for making panama hatsJIPIJAPA8Down41 Olivier ___, French musician and organist whose works include the Turangalila-SymphonieMESSIAEN8Down42 Best Actor Oscar-winner for The African QueenHUMPHREYBOGART14Down44 Andrew ___, cricketer who captained England to a 2-1 victory in the 2009 AshesSTRAUSS7Down45 Series of computer games, the first of which, published in 1997, was subtitled The Fallen LordsMYTH4Down50 1925 musical comedy whose songs include Tea for Two and I Want to Be HappyNONONANETTE11Down52 Graeme ___, Scottish snooker player who won the 2006 World ChampionshipDOTT4Down54

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 7, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.