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The Independent Crossword May 16 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 114 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword May 16 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 114 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#
Affection simulated by AI strangely irks sceptics at firstAIRKISS7Across1 Make beerBREW4Across1 Near (Archaic)NIGH4Across4 Dance with retired doctor showing lack of coordinationDISCORD7Across5 Food shopDELICATESSEN12Across8 The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulleyZORRO5Across9 Field buzzed with energyRANGE5Across9 The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowersLILYOFTHEVALLEY15Across10 Female sheepEWE3Across10 Rise to embrace bishop with a melodramatic showSOAPOPERA9Across10 Bit by bitPIECEMEAL9Across11 Student leaving out cap means to collect moneyEARNER6Across11 PlanetSATURN6Across12 Model recalled art teacher's educationTRAINSET8Across12 Woke in the end with leg brokenENLIGHTENED11Across14 The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger HargreavesMRBUMP6Across14 Take no notice ofIGNORE6Across14 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius's work of the same nameSATYRICON9Across15 English bachelors head outEBB3Across16 A fairy servant to Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamCOBWEB6Across16 RebukeREPRIMAND9Across17 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni in which Harrison Ford has an uncredited role as an arrested student demonstratorZABRISKIEPOINT14Across17 Endless source of milk for hot drinkTEA3Across18 Complicated ode, abridged and broken downBIODEGRADED11Across19 DramTOT3Across20 1962 number one hit instrumental by The Tornados, produced by Joe MeekTELSTAR7Across20 Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself when Achilles' armour was given to OdysseusAJAX4Across21 Barbiturate, for exampleSLEEPINGPILL12Across21 Start to eat deconstructed sandwich wife's left in layersECHIDNAS8Across21 Witold ___, Polish composer and conductor whose works include the orchestral song-cycle Chantefleurs et chantefablesLUTOSLAWSKI11Across22 SMS messageTEXT4Across22 Farewell note for MatTATAMI6Across22 Stitched joinSEAM4Across23 The tree Ceratonia siliqua, whose pods are used as a substitute for chocolateCAROB5Across23 Japanese cartoon films of which Spirited Away is the highest-grossing exampleANIME5Across24 The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn IslandsADAMSTOWN9Across25 Discreetly get shot of Asian food smell in burial chamberPHOTOBOMB9Across25 Charlie secures head of screwdriver in screwTWIST5Across26 Discuss loudly after very engaging summitSPEAKOF7Across27 Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of MalaccaSUMATRA7Across28 Knight, courageous one, experiencing change of heart gets cutSIRLOIN7Across28 A best-selling 1974 novel by Len DeightonSPYSTORY8Across31 Old English coin worth five shillingsCROWN5Across33 A non-technical name for miliariaHEATRASH8Across34 Norman hero of the First Crusade who played a prominent part in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099TANCRED7Across35 Novel by Erich Segal published on Valentine's Day in 1970LOVESTORY9Across36 See 30 DownJOSEPHHAYDN11Across37 What the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, riding a pale horse, is identified asDEATH5Across41 Large body of fresh water in Perth and Kinross at whose eastern end the River Tummel beginsLOCHRANNOCH11Across43 A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on PeruINCA4Across46 2015 film featuring Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James BondSPECTRE7Across47 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set during the summer of 1922THEGREATGATSBY14Across49 Giorgio ___, Italian fashion designer who studied medicine at the University of Milan for three yearsARMANI6Across50 The official motto of the state of New YorkEXCELSIOR9Across51 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway that is a semi-autobiography of Charles BukowskiBARFLY6Across53 Federal subject of Russia whose capital is GroznyCHECHENREPUBLIC15Across55 Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack WiltonNASHE5Across56

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Handshake perhaps is one welcome when introducing peopleAGREEMENT9Down1 Country whose capital is BakuAZERBAIJAN10Down1 Chilling pair at heart of horrorRANDR5Down2 Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammarURDU4Down2 SummaryRECAP5Down2 Vehicles essentially picking up diver in danger at seaICEBERG7Down3 Become dry and shrivelledWITHER6Down3 Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytesCORPUSCLE9Down3 Beginning to scratch bum cheekSASS4Down4 SavingsNESTEGG7Down4 Christian festival celebrated on November 1ALLSAINTSDAY12Down4 See 38DUCKBILLEDPLATYPUS18Down5 Web-footed birdsGEESE5Down5 Notice group cutting venison for spitDEADRINGER10Down5 Legendary one saved squirrelsSTORIED7Down6 See 54RUSHHOUR8Down6 OpponentADVERSARY9Down6 Spotted in lover's pendant, go red?OVERSPEND9Down7 Even thoughALBEIT6Down7 The derived SI unit of pressurePASCAL6Down7 Plan of road heading uphill and backDRAFT5Down8 Welsh international attacker at Mansfield Town who played over 100 games for Leeds UnitedTYLERROBERTS12Down8 Customers collectivelyCLIENTELE9Down9 Writer of histories and annals of the Roman EmpireTACITUS7Down11 Doc Brown's dog in the Back to the Future filmsEINSTEIN8Down12 Attire (Archaic)RAIMENT7Down13 Beef dish got mixed with saffronSTROGANOFF10Down13 A large marine decapod crustacean of the genus HomarusLOBSTER7Down13 AcquireOBTAIN6Down15 Despicable look at last of burglars breaking inLOATHSOME9Down15 HydrophobiaRABIES6Down16 Series of shuttle launches got through terrible moment, not taking offBADMINTON9Down17 British art rock band whose debut single was Virginia PlainROXYMUSIC9Down18 ThrobPULSE5Down18 1981 top ten single by ToyahIWANTTOBEFREE13Down19 DoctrineDOGMA5Down19 Foundation degree in education and musicBEDROCK7Down19 Priest offers shelter to accident's first responderREACTOR7Down20 Displays latex posing pouchesEXPOS5Down21 Another name for the pumaCOUGAR6Down23 Friend and I leave after mum comes aroundAMIGO5Down23 Maybe sister and I pulled up wadersIBIS4Down24 City on the coast of S China that was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999MACAO5Down26 George ___, American actor best known for playing Norm Peterson in CheersWENDT5Down27 A trapeze artist or tightrope walkerAERIALIST9Down29 Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The SeasonsJOSEPHHAYDN11Down30 Upland area of England whose highest point is Kinder ScoutPEAKDISTRICT12Down32 Peninsula containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and SomaliaHORNOFAFRICA12Down34 The amphibious Australian egg-laying mammal Ornithorhynchus anatinusDUCKBILLEDPLATYPUS18Down38 1984 David Bowie top ten hit, loosely inspired by Eddie CochranBLUEJEAN8Down39 Nontechnical name for the femurTHIGHBONE9Down40 A sound recording disc used for demonstration or other short-term purposesACETATE7Down42 Dead skin, especially that round the base of a fingernail or toenailCUTICLE7Down44 Real first name of "Shaggy" in the Scooby-Doo cartoonsNORVILLE8Down45 Chinese system of exercise and self-defence, using balance and co-ordination with minimum effortTAICHI6Down48 William ___, archbishop of Canterbury impeached by the Long Parliament in 1640 and executed in 1645LAUD4Down52 1998 film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that spawned two sequelsRUSHHOUR8Down54

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, May 16, 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.