The Independent Crossword May 11 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 106 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 106 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 11 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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Obtain by sponging51 AcrossReveal answer → Elderly34 AcrossReveal answer → Somehow hide panic with Liz Truss – oddly it's something Boris used to enjoy155 AcrossReveal answer → Song of praise47 AcrossReveal answer → Fortress in Paris88 AcrossReveal answer → Verse for children129 AcrossReveal answer → Funny business caught on motorway59 AcrossReveal answer → Ravine610 AcrossReveal answer → Film fan's crunchy snack?910 AcrossReveal answer → Naked cycling can get better as a group1511 AcrossReveal answer → Despondent when making ladies say stuff to get award612 AcrossReveal answer → Region of north-east Italy which contains the cities Padua, Treviso and Vicenza612 AcrossReveal answer → Avoid613 AcrossReveal answer → 1971 single and album by John Lennon713 AcrossReveal answer → Theatrical Chancellor of the Exchequer's going after small tax payments614 AcrossReveal answer → Song with which Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest814 AcrossReveal answer → Nursery rhyme character who could eat no fat915 AcrossReveal answer → Day bed1215 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Bennett, Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the sitcom Shelley516 AcrossReveal answer → Type of West Indian popular music with a strongly-accented upbeat617 AcrossReveal answer → City in the Sudan that was the scene of an 1898 victory for Lord Kitchener's forces818 AcrossReveal answer → The day before Good Friday1419 AcrossReveal answer → Membership fee is 10p assuming boss taking credit – its growth is important, but not profit1519 AcrossReveal answer → Lazy819 AcrossReveal answer → Discharge420 AcrossReveal answer → Common name for the cactus Opuntia humifusa920 AcrossReveal answer → Label321 AcrossReveal answer → Offensively assertive522 AcrossReveal answer → Month since North American League formed with eight sides922 AcrossReveal answer → A widely used type of local area network822 AcrossReveal answer → Roman statesman and writer noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage423 AcrossReveal answer → I maybe losing volts on lead to tumble drier523 AcrossReveal answer → Working on radio with Clive Anderson narrating documentary principally about famous artist1524 AcrossReveal answer → Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar1026 AcrossReveal answer → An ornamental centrepiece for a table728 AcrossReveal answer → A wild goat with large backward-curving horns430 AcrossReveal answer → 1972 single by The Osmonds that reached number 2 in the UK1131 AcrossReveal answer → Hoax in which bone fragments found in a gravel pit in East Sussex were presented as the fossilised remains of an early human1133 AcrossReveal answer → English rock supergroup formed in 1981 whose original lineup was John Wetton, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and Steve Howe434 AcrossReveal answer → A deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green735 AcrossReveal answer → Caribbean island whose capital is Fort-de-France1037 AcrossReveal answer → The West Indian shrub Indigofera suffruticosa, which is a source of indigo439 AcrossReveal answer → Measure of computer storage capacity equal to a thousand gigabytes840 AcrossReveal answer → The insect Lymantria dispar dispar942 AcrossReveal answer → The small ferocious carnivorous marsupial Sarcophilus harrisi1445 AcrossReveal answer → Reginald Perrin's middle name in the sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter848 AcrossReveal answer → The mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament650 AcrossReveal answer → Light snacks or appetisers, usually eaten with drinks in Spanish bars551 AcrossReveal answer → A close-fitting woollen hood that covers the ears and neck952 AcrossReveal answer → Song performed by Secret Garden that won the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest for Norway853 AcrossReveal answer → The ___, Raymond Briggs book first published in 1978754 AcrossReveal answer → The male reproductive organ of a flower655 AcrossReveal answer →

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On reflection, butter cat up to get rodent61 DownReveal answer → The 23rd president of the United States161 DownReveal answer → South American rodent51 DownReveal answer → Cool dish and ceramic plate's back requires spraying82 DownReveal answer → Melina ___ , Greek actress and singer who became the country's first female Minister for Culture in 198182 DownReveal answer → Sequence of hereditary rulers72 DownReveal answer → Whole of hospital department having extremely deficient siren63 DownReveal answer → Technical name for the back63 DownReveal answer → Glowing coal53 DownReveal answer → Hit feature gets cheers84 DownReveal answer → Serie A football team nicknamed La Viola104 DownReveal answer → Watch74 DownReveal answer → God55 DownReveal answer → 1981 Milos Forman film based on a novel by E L Doctorow75 DownReveal answer → Form of public humiliation being in middle of Wigan, covered in bird poo125 DownReveal answer → Record cover66 DownReveal answer → Forbidden City's flattened structure66 DownReveal answer → An outline drawing named after a French politician106 DownReveal answer → Fanatic seeing Tenable on TV regularly if following ultimate in quiz shows67 DownReveal answer → A collective of musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in the period leading up to the 1987 general election87 DownReveal answer → Shakespeare comedy subtitled What You Will128 DownReveal answer → At one point, Doctor Who's in Time Lord trousers by Top Shop128 DownReveal answer → 1980 Woody Allen film shot in black and white169 DownReveal answer → City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade610 DownReveal answer → The largest city in Cameroon611 DownReveal answer → Esoteric611 DownReveal answer → Savings712 DownReveal answer → Dream I'm in boat at sea813 DownReveal answer → Admit714 DownReveal answer → Original copyright over revolutionary Queen musical withdrawn815 DownReveal answer → Up above516 DownReveal answer → See 81216 DownReveal answer → Illuminated517 DownReveal answer → High Street done badly617 DownReveal answer → Make one518 DownReveal answer → 11 peacekeepers joining 150 on active duty for starters618 DownReveal answer → See 51219 DownReveal answer → Not 18 and ready to drive620 DownReveal answer → County cricket club whose one-day side is called Steelbacks1621 DownReveal answer → Spool back on air621 DownReveal answer → A dry red wine produced in Tuscany723 DownReveal answer → A short story by Roald Dahl, originally published in The New Yorker, included in his 1960 collection Kiss Kiss1624 DownReveal answer → The longest river in Great Britain625 DownReveal answer → Informal term for the style of play of the England cricket team under Brendon McCullum727 DownReveal answer → 1995 novel by Robert Harris about a young mathematician stationed in Bletchley Park629 DownReveal answer → Lead singer of The Who1232 DownReveal answer → The world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. founded in 19791036 DownReveal answer → Welsh actor and director, born Alfred Reginald Jones, who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Lost Weekend1038 DownReveal answer → The capital of Hungary841 DownReveal answer → The second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar843 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Montgomery744 DownReveal answer → Legendary island on which King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged646 DownReveal answer → Unit of angular measure equal to one sixtieth of a degree647 DownReveal answer → Insect that travels in vast swarms, stripping large areas of vegetation649 DownReveal answer →

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