The Independent Crossword May 16 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 114 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 16 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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Affection simulated by AI strangely irks sceptics at first71 AcrossReveal answer → Make beer41 AcrossReveal answer → Near (Archaic)44 AcrossReveal answer → Dance with retired doctor showing lack of coordination75 AcrossReveal answer → Food shop128 AcrossReveal answer → The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley59 AcrossReveal answer → Field buzzed with energy59 AcrossReveal answer → The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowers1510 AcrossReveal answer → Female sheep310 AcrossReveal answer → Rise to embrace bishop with a melodramatic show910 AcrossReveal answer → Bit by bit911 AcrossReveal answer → Student leaving out cap means to collect money611 AcrossReveal answer → Planet612 AcrossReveal answer → Model recalled art teacher's education812 AcrossReveal answer → Woke in the end with leg broken1114 AcrossReveal answer → The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves614 AcrossReveal answer → Take no notice of614 AcrossReveal answer → 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius's work of the same name915 AcrossReveal answer → English bachelors head out316 AcrossReveal answer → A fairy servant to Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream616 AcrossReveal answer → Rebuke917 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni in which Harrison Ford has an uncredited role as an arrested student demonstrator1417 AcrossReveal answer → Endless source of milk for hot drink318 AcrossReveal answer → Complicated ode, abridged and broken down1119 AcrossReveal answer → Dram320 AcrossReveal answer → 1962 number one hit instrumental by The Tornados, produced by Joe Meek720 AcrossReveal answer → Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself when Achilles' armour was given to Odysseus421 AcrossReveal answer → Barbiturate, for example1221 AcrossReveal answer → Start to eat deconstructed sandwich wife's left in layers821 AcrossReveal answer → Witold ___, Polish composer and conductor whose works include the orchestral song-cycle Chantefleurs et chantefables1122 AcrossReveal answer → SMS message422 AcrossReveal answer → Farewell note for Mat622 AcrossReveal answer → Stitched join423 AcrossReveal answer → The tree Ceratonia siliqua, whose pods are used as a substitute for chocolate523 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese cartoon films of which Spirited Away is the highest-grossing example524 AcrossReveal answer → The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands925 AcrossReveal answer → Discreetly get shot of Asian food smell in burial chamber925 AcrossReveal answer → Charlie secures head of screwdriver in screw526 AcrossReveal answer → Discuss loudly after very engaging summit727 AcrossReveal answer → Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca728 AcrossReveal answer → Knight, courageous one, experiencing change of heart gets cut728 AcrossReveal answer → A best-selling 1974 novel by Len Deighton831 AcrossReveal answer → Old English coin worth five shillings533 AcrossReveal answer → A non-technical name for miliaria834 AcrossReveal answer → Norman hero of the First Crusade who played a prominent part in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099735 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Erich Segal published on Valentine's Day in 1970936 AcrossReveal answer → See 30 Down1137 AcrossReveal answer → What the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, riding a pale horse, is identified as541 AcrossReveal answer → Large body of fresh water in Perth and Kinross at whose eastern end the River Tummel begins1143 AcrossReveal answer → A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru446 AcrossReveal answer → 2015 film featuring Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond747 AcrossReveal answer → 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set during the summer of 19221449 AcrossReveal answer → Giorgio ___, Italian fashion designer who studied medicine at the University of Milan for three years650 AcrossReveal answer → The official motto of the state of New York951 AcrossReveal answer → 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway that is a semi-autobiography of Charles Bukowski653 AcrossReveal answer → Federal subject of Russia whose capital is Grozny1555 AcrossReveal answer → Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton556 AcrossReveal answer →

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Handshake perhaps is one welcome when introducing people91 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Baku101 DownReveal answer → Chilling pair at heart of horror52 DownReveal answer → Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammar42 DownReveal answer → Summary52 DownReveal answer → Vehicles essentially picking up diver in danger at sea73 DownReveal answer → Become dry and shrivelled63 DownReveal answer → Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes93 DownReveal answer → Beginning to scratch bum cheek44 DownReveal answer → Savings74 DownReveal answer → Christian festival celebrated on November 1124 DownReveal answer → See 38185 DownReveal answer → Web-footed birds55 DownReveal answer → Notice group cutting venison for spit105 DownReveal answer → Legendary one saved squirrels76 DownReveal answer → See 5486 DownReveal answer → Opponent96 DownReveal answer → Spotted in lover's pendant, go red?97 DownReveal answer → Even though67 DownReveal answer → The derived SI unit of pressure67 DownReveal answer → Plan of road heading uphill and back58 DownReveal answer → Welsh international attacker at Mansfield Town who played over 100 games for Leeds United128 DownReveal answer → Customers collectively99 DownReveal answer → Writer of histories and annals of the Roman Empire711 DownReveal answer → Doc Brown's dog in the Back to the Future films812 DownReveal answer → Attire (Archaic)713 DownReveal answer → Beef dish got mixed with saffron1013 DownReveal answer → A large marine decapod crustacean of the genus Homarus713 DownReveal answer → Acquire615 DownReveal answer → Despicable look at last of burglars breaking in915 DownReveal answer → Hydrophobia616 DownReveal answer → Series of shuttle launches got through terrible moment, not taking off917 DownReveal answer → British art rock band whose debut single was Virginia Plain918 DownReveal answer → Throb518 DownReveal answer → 1981 top ten single by Toyah1319 DownReveal answer → Doctrine519 DownReveal answer → Foundation degree in education and music719 DownReveal answer → Priest offers shelter to accident's first responder720 DownReveal answer → Displays latex posing pouches521 DownReveal answer → Another name for the puma623 DownReveal answer → Friend and I leave after mum comes around523 DownReveal answer → Maybe sister and I pulled up waders424 DownReveal answer → City on the coast of S China that was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999526 DownReveal answer → George ___, American actor best known for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers527 DownReveal answer → A trapeze artist or tightrope walker929 DownReveal answer → Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons1130 DownReveal answer → Upland area of England whose highest point is Kinder Scout1232 DownReveal answer → Peninsula containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia1234 DownReveal answer → The amphibious Australian egg-laying mammal Ornithorhynchus anatinus1838 DownReveal answer → 1984 David Bowie top ten hit, loosely inspired by Eddie Cochran839 DownReveal answer → Nontechnical name for the femur940 DownReveal answer → A sound recording disc used for demonstration or other short-term purposes742 DownReveal answer → Dead skin, especially that round the base of a fingernail or toenail744 DownReveal answer → Real first name of "Shaggy" in the Scooby-Doo cartoons845 DownReveal answer → Chinese system of exercise and self-defence, using balance and co-ordination with minimum effort648 DownReveal answer → William ___, archbishop of Canterbury impeached by the Long Parliament in 1640 and executed in 1645452 DownReveal answer → 1998 film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that spawned two sequels854 DownReveal answer →

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