The Independent Crossword May 30 2026 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 30 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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Writing material51 AcrossReveal answer → Bombers essentially level city bordering lake without shame81 AcrossReveal answer → Body of water34 AcrossReveal answer → Turn back women wearing jeans65 AcrossReveal answer → Love affair78 AcrossReveal answer → Irish singer whose UK hit singles include Walk Tall and Elusive Butterfly119 AcrossReveal answer → Leather59 AcrossReveal answer → European doctors on hand for periods of withdrawal89 AcrossReveal answer → Tree-huggers fine revolutionary, unfortunately610 AcrossReveal answer → Consequence1210 AcrossReveal answer → Plant also called the African lily1011 AcrossReveal answer → Lived with the Spanish in outskirts of Detroit512 AcrossReveal answer → Famous street artist612 AcrossReveal answer → Just starting remarkably nice pint after one913 AcrossReveal answer → The maple genus of trees413 AcrossReveal answer → Cut of beef613 AcrossReveal answer → Great salmon river that forms the border between Scotland and England along part of its route514 AcrossReveal answer → Important reason for refusing service in restaurant?714 AcrossReveal answer → Disable1215 AcrossReveal answer → Synthetic medical stimulant known as speed1115 AcrossReveal answer → English actor whose TV roles include Harcourt in Edge of Darkness, Bert Large in Doc Martin and the herald in Rome1016 AcrossReveal answer → Anecdotes about extremely nondescript gifts716 AcrossReveal answer → Cupidity517 AcrossReveal answer → Portuguese producer and DJ whose single Touch Me went to number one in the UK in 20011017 AcrossReveal answer → Art form719 AcrossReveal answer → Passage emerging from former church run by discontented priest719 AcrossReveal answer → American actor best known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men719 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Tallahassee720 AcrossReveal answer → Small vegetable320 AcrossReveal answer → Deep gorge521 AcrossReveal answer → Some surreal art simply reflected atmospheric phenomenon721 AcrossReveal answer → Phil ___, American entertainer and comedy actor best known for playing Sergeant Bilko722 AcrossReveal answer → Daughter initially implied suspicious character is dog killer?922 AcrossReveal answer → Emptied bin filled with uncooked meat524 AcrossReveal answer → Ticket scam captivates press625 AcrossReveal answer → Multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece who have won European titles in football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, wrestling and table tennis1025 AcrossReveal answer → Decreased rent, to Spooner's eternal torment826 AcrossReveal answer → Doubt misers regularly admitted responsibilities627 AcrossReveal answer → Former England cricket captain who overtook Wally Hammond as the most prolific Test batsman1227 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow leaving attractive soprano inscriptions828 AcrossReveal answer → Decapod crustacean whose first pair of limbs are modified as pincers428 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 Lewis Gilbert film with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his stage play1330 AcrossReveal answer → The large black passerine bird Corvus frugilegus432 AcrossReveal answer → Prickly climbing plant of the genus Smilax with large aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves1234 AcrossReveal answer → British soldier who wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom1037 AcrossReveal answer → Any of two or more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons739 AcrossReveal answer → Hans ___, controversial German-born psychologist whose works include Uses and Abuses of Psychology740 AcrossReveal answer → Belgian port on the River Scheldt742 AcrossReveal answer → The umbelliferous fodder plant hogweed, also known as Indian celery, Indian rhubarb or pushki1045 AcrossReveal answer → Dmitri Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of Tea for Two from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans1046 AcrossReveal answer → Lead singer of Dawn who topped the singles charts with Knock Three Times and Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree1148 AcrossReveal answer → Kenneth ___, actor who played the role of Jimmy Porter in the original production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger in 1956550 AcrossReveal answer → In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife451 AcrossReveal answer → The fourteenth studio album by REM, released in 20081052 AcrossReveal answer → American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose films include the 1992 comedy Mo' Money1153 AcrossReveal answer →

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Market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford that lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire101 DownReveal answer → Bachelor with no date gatecrashing weirdly arcane shindig91 DownReveal answer → Harbour41 DownReveal answer → Political entity in pre-Hispanic Mexico whose capital city was Tollan-Xicocotitlan122 DownReveal answer → Genuine gold article conservationists originally insured comprehensively92 DownReveal answer → Black bread122 DownReveal answer → The fourth-longest river in Europe, known to the Greeks as the Borysthenes73 DownReveal answer → Bail out of plane circling around south of Spain53 DownReveal answer → Second-placed competitors93 DownReveal answer → Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi3654 DownReveal answer → Strip naked in backstreet toilet74 DownReveal answer → Bad smell64 DownReveal answer → Beast of burden35 DownReveal answer → 1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang generally considered to be the song that first popularised hip hop in the United States and around the world145 DownReveal answer → US prison126 DownReveal answer → The capital of Suriname106 DownReveal answer → Court finally seized stately home's fuel reserves96 DownReveal answer → Regulating device found in retrieval vehicle57 DownReveal answer → Small ornamental bag, typically used to hold sewing articles47 DownReveal answer → Close-fitting hat67 DownReveal answer → Record in auditorium for composer58 DownReveal answer → French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty108 DownReveal answer → Character in EastEnders who has been played by Emma Herry, Samantha Leigh Martin, Scarlett Alice Johnson and Alice Haig119 DownReveal answer → A supplement modifying a will or revoking some provision of it710 DownReveal answer → Minute amount911 DownReveal answer → Intelligence gatherer dismisses posh British national411 DownReveal answer → First name of the character in Dynasty played by Joan Collins612 DownReveal answer → Card game612 DownReveal answer → Spiny tree614 DownReveal answer → Beating GOP rebel with a big stick!915 DownReveal answer → Charges416 DownReveal answer → Telling state to protect a reporter on vacation917 DownReveal answer → Plunge318 DownReveal answer → Aboard ship, decorator without a harnessing line shivers918 DownReveal answer → Pseudonym of a well-known French urban artist whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 8-bit video games718 DownReveal answer → Mistake blood group in report420 DownReveal answer → Musical ornament mentor modified to conceal diamonds721 DownReveal answer → American actress, producer and TV host who made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters' 1988 film Hairspray921 DownReveal answer → Given the chop, investigators turned on journalist522 DownReveal answer → Posed entertaining question, in short523 DownReveal answer → A person who calculates insurance risks and premiums723 DownReveal answer → Stadium that is home to Liverpool FC724 DownReveal answer → Spew black lies, oddly about Switzerland524 DownReveal answer → English painter noted especially for his paintings of Christ in a contemporary English setting1426 DownReveal answer → 1966 single by The Hollies written by future 10cc member Graham Gouldman729 DownReveal answer → Major Egyptian construction project on the River Nile completed in 19701231 DownReveal answer → Viennese composer of operettas such as The Chocolate Soldier1133 DownReveal answer → Poem written by Horace c. 19 BC and first translated into English in 1566 by Thomas Drant1035 DownReveal answer → Song by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre which was a hit for Anita Bryant in 1960 and for Marie Osmond in 19731036 DownReveal answer → English artist, illustrator, author, and poet best known for The Owl and the Pussycat1038 DownReveal answer → Town in Kent on the River Medway that formerly had a royal naval dockyard741 DownReveal answer → ITV franchise holder for the East of England, responsible for the TV programme Sale of the Century643 DownReveal answer → 2015 animated film featuring creatures from the Despicable Me films744 DownReveal answer → Character in the Toy Story films voiced by Tom Hanks547 DownReveal answer → Russian for 'no'449 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, May 30, 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.