The Independent Crossword March 9 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 109 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for March 9 2024. 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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Used an oar51 AcrossReveal answer → Party united? Nonsense - riven by tense insecurities!61 AcrossReveal answer → Spirit64 AcrossReveal answer → Worthless Russian fighter turned to hard drug85 AcrossReveal answer → Woollen items87 AcrossReveal answer → Skin condition48 AcrossReveal answer → Queen might have to cough up for this unfurnished vestibule, according to Spooner89 AcrossReveal answer → Mildly indecent109 AcrossReveal answer → Least demanding exam spanning the morning610 AcrossReveal answer → £51 retired authentic Hindu put through a blender1011 AcrossReveal answer → Colourless gas with a chlorine-like odour, formed by an electric discharge in oxygen511 AcrossReveal answer → The annual flowering plant love-in-a-mist1612 AcrossReveal answer → Untidy writing612 AcrossReveal answer → Oath once occasionally seen in England?412 AcrossReveal answer → Beginning to frame a kerb crawling toff out of time813 AcrossReveal answer → See 311114 AcrossReveal answer → Metal stand614 AcrossReveal answer → Village in Hertfordshire best known for its film and TV studios715 AcrossReveal answer → Make one's home chair less soft615 AcrossReveal answer → Divorce document1015 AcrossReveal answer → Small vehicle by Autobahn, a Beetle616 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of yeasts including one which causes thrush716 AcrossReveal answer → 1963 novel by Alistair MacLean filmed by John Sturges in 19681517 AcrossReveal answer → Weaving apparatus418 AcrossReveal answer → György ___, Transylvanian-born composer whose works include the opera Le Grand Macabre618 AcrossReveal answer → A Christian American lancing boils818 AcrossReveal answer → Addictive drug819 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar-winning 1935 film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur that was Noel Coward's film debut in a speaking role1219 AcrossReveal answer → Ursa Minor last seen in Banana Republic420 AcrossReveal answer → Health centre621 AcrossReveal answer → Great cup tie broadcast run in wide vision mode?1021 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of Ian Fraser Kilmister of Hawkwind and Motörhead522 AcrossReveal answer → Subject522 AcrossReveal answer → See 36823 AcrossReveal answer → After cycling, Ravi necks a good stiffener623 AcrossReveal answer → Capital facial hair, Clark!824 AcrossReveal answer → Wake-up call dislodging one initially reluctant partygoer825 AcrossReveal answer → Invitational international ice hockey tournament held on five occasions between 1976 and 1991925 AcrossReveal answer → That "one year wonder" failed at the outset626 AcrossReveal answer → 1979 album by Rainbow on which Ritchie Blackmore was reunited with Deep Purple bandmate Roger Glover1127 AcrossReveal answer → The anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, also called the telencephalon829 AcrossReveal answer → Chief executive of the entertainment company Syco1131 AcrossReveal answer → The insect Delia antiqua832 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish guitarist and singer-songwriter who was a member of the folk groups The Boys of the Lough and Five Hand Reel1133 AcrossReveal answer → Cypriot sculptor who falls in love with one of his sculptures in Ovid's Metamorphoses934 AcrossReveal answer → American actor who was married to actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie836 AcrossReveal answer → Character in the The Addams Family in the form of a disembodied hand537 AcrossReveal answer → Social science associated with Margaret Mead and Bronislaw Malinowski1238 AcrossReveal answer → See 471341 AcrossReveal answer → Chuck Berry song to which John Travolta and Uma Thurman dance in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction1544 AcrossReveal answer → Former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer created a baron in 20201347 AcrossReveal answer → 1988 children's novel by Roald Dahl748 AcrossReveal answer → The sixth-largest city in Israel649 AcrossReveal answer → Term popularised by the practice of Dr Adolf Lorenz of Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century1650 AcrossReveal answer → The third planet from the sun551 AcrossReveal answer →

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A statue, obelisk, column, etc. cut from one block of stone81 DownReveal answer → Repudiate81 DownReveal answer → Arab shortly heading north52 DownReveal answer → Australian tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1964 and 1965102 DownReveal answer → Moisten32 DownReveal answer → British admiral "Urgent - drifting English ships lost here"153 DownReveal answer → Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means "young blackbird"63 DownReveal answer → Attire53 DownReveal answer → Bastard offspring stealing a gallantry medal74 DownReveal answer → Darren ___, former England footballer who played for Portsmouth, Spurs, Birmingham City, Wolves and Bournemouth84 DownReveal answer → Left-winger74 DownReveal answer → Type of actor95 DownReveal answer → Thoreau's gag! Fell about in fits of giggles!155 DownReveal answer → Son of Polixenes who falls in love with Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale85 DownReveal answer → Long and limp46 DownReveal answer → Spanish trained killer boring, humdrum, a tad ordinary76 DownReveal answer → American author and civil rights campaigner whose works include the novel If Beale Street Could Talk126 DownReveal answer → Disgraced cyclist who won the Tour de France in a record-breaking seven consecutive years147 DownReveal answer → Dwarf throwing? It'll impress Knut!157 DownReveal answer → Industrial town in South Yorkshire whose football team are nicknamed The Tykes88 DownReveal answer → A pair of Charlies together with Romeo start to annoy doom-monger98 DownReveal answer → Chinese text also called the Book of Changes69 DownReveal answer → Soldier910 DownReveal answer → Historical German county and duchy located between the Harz Mountains and the river Elbe610 DownReveal answer → Sweat811 DownReveal answer → A white ground of plaster and size used to prepare panels or canvas for painting513 DownReveal answer → Terse713 DownReveal answer → Eremitic Levi's ulcers discovered when standing up914 DownReveal answer → Wading bird516 DownReveal answer → Young horse417 DownReveal answer → What might follow rag-tag old baronet detained by security?717 DownReveal answer → Contradict article in spirit, perhaps719 DownReveal answer → Nickname of British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon720 DownReveal answer → Lyric poem320 DownReveal answer → Silk, wool, rayon, or cotton fabric with a transversely corded surface321 DownReveal answer → Odd way to leave mountains522 DownReveal answer → Juan ___, general elected three times as President of Argentina523 DownReveal answer → Poem by Edgar Allan Poe recited by Tom Hanks in the 2004 Coen Brothers film The Ladykillers724 DownReveal answer → The most popular cheese in the United Kingdom725 DownReveal answer → Square between Oxford Street and Bond Street, for example, on a standard UK Monopoly board1426 DownReveal answer → Writer on whose stories the musical Guys and Dolls was based1127 DownReveal answer → The skin of a peach or grape, for example728 DownReveal answer → Name given to Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar530 DownReveal answer → Plant that decays to form peat1231 DownReveal answer → Home/personal computer produced by Commodore in 1977334 DownReveal answer → Jackson 5 single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 19701035 DownReveal answer → Area in South East England between the North and the South Downs837 DownReveal answer → The diameter of the opening through which light passes in an optical instrument such as a camera838 DownReveal answer → Song by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie that was the 2016 Christmas number one839 DownReveal answer → Another name for Calvary840 DownReveal answer → The ___ Lads, 1960s sitcom featuring the characters Terry Collier and Bob Ferris642 DownReveal answer → See 271143 DownReveal answer → Teenager smuggled across the United States in the video game franchise and HBO TV series The Last of Us545 DownReveal answer → The capital of Niger646 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, March 9, 2024. 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.