The Independent Crossword May 4 2024 Answers

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Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 4 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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Surety41 AcrossReveal answer → Fancy dress gala is boring, bar one American81 AcrossReveal answer → Roof edge53 AcrossReveal answer → Commandos dance in the country parade66 AcrossReveal answer → Type of lager78 AcrossReveal answer → Actor whose films include The Name of the Rose, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Heathers159 AcrossReveal answer → Manufacturing series for Channel 1, streamed149 AcrossReveal answer → Grassy plain59 AcrossReveal answer → Arab newspaper backs you people610 AcrossReveal answer → Popular meal1210 AcrossReveal answer → Rarely611 AcrossReveal answer → Antimatter conjecture overlaps with 80's sci-fi811 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Tirana712 AcrossReveal answer → Cold and unfriendly612 AcrossReveal answer → The small northern sandpiper Calidris canutus413 AcrossReveal answer → Listening to founder, agree in time413 AcrossReveal answer → Crater near Cumae portrayed as the entrance to the underworld in the Aeneid of Virgil714 AcrossReveal answer → Hospital employee1215 AcrossReveal answer → Spain's all-time top goalscorer1015 AcrossReveal answer → Person in field with cutting almost finished1015 AcrossReveal answer → Risky to move dislocated gonad1016 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol consisting of a short line with dots above and below used to represent the mathematical operation of division617 AcrossReveal answer → Freight517 AcrossReveal answer → Thrive718 AcrossReveal answer → Servilius ___, Roman tribune who struck the first blow in the assassination of Julius Caesar518 AcrossReveal answer → Greeting surprises Sikh hosts from behind419 AcrossReveal answer → 1965 film starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret and Jack Palance1019 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps520 AcrossReveal answer → In ancient Greece, a festival at which competitors contended for prizes, such as the Olympic Games420 AcrossReveal answer → Become liquid421 AcrossReveal answer → See 491121 AcrossReveal answer → Doctor's notes showing Spooner's treatment given to immoral chef821 AcrossReveal answer → American actor who played Juror #4 in Sidney Lumet's film 12 Angry Men1022 AcrossReveal answer → Legendary like the Beatles were first622 AcrossReveal answer → Transfer of jailed mob due in 2012, say1424 AcrossReveal answer → American golfer whose only major championship victory was in the 1977 USPGA Championship at Pebble Beach1225 AcrossReveal answer → Decided where to sleep if homeless?626 AcrossReveal answer → One taking hill in second/first?827 AcrossReveal answer → Vladimir ___, Russian-born conductor and pianist who became a citizen of Iceland in 1972928 AcrossReveal answer → The ___ Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual team race across Alaska830 AcrossReveal answer → City that hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics532 AcrossReveal answer → Paolo ___, Italian painter of the Renaissance whose paintings include The Feast in the House of Levi833 AcrossReveal answer → Cheech and Chong's first feature-length film, released in 1978935 AcrossReveal answer → Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner for Vicky Cristina Barcelona1236 AcrossReveal answer → Jamaican reggae band who had a Top 10 hit in 1978 with Now That We've Found Love1039 AcrossReveal answer → Yellow-flowered shrub of the genera Cytisus and Sarothamnus541 AcrossReveal answer → ___ of the Dump, children's novel by Clive King published in 1963443 AcrossReveal answer → Best Actress Oscar-winner for Monster's Ball1046 AcrossReveal answer → Heinrich ___, German poet and essayist whose chief poetic work is Das Buch der Lieder548 AcrossReveal answer → French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 19571149 AcrossReveal answer → The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire1050 AcrossReveal answer → Former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain751 AcrossReveal answer → The Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland452 AcrossReveal answer → Island in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Saint-Denis753 AcrossReveal answer → Venezuelan terrorist arrested in Sudan in 1994 after years as one of the world's most wanted fugitives1554 AcrossReveal answer →

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1976 Tom Stoppard play that is interrupted by the play New-Found-Land101 DownReveal answer → Bread roll31 DownReveal answer → Stealing pants nearly gets Charlie put away72 DownReveal answer → Andrew ___, cricketer who captained England to victory in the 2009 Ashes72 DownReveal answer → Enmity72 DownReveal answer → Kansas city to get out of?53 DownReveal answer → The third largest city in Spain83 DownReveal answer → Short trip to perform a task63 DownReveal answer → Bunch of keys?114 DownReveal answer → A machine with a drum that rotates round a vertical spindle that is used for hauling in heavy ropes, etc74 DownReveal answer → Small dinosaur124 DownReveal answer → Hindu teacher55 DownReveal answer → The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815125 DownReveal answer → Legs up, darling, just a little75 DownReveal answer → Study of humans126 DownReveal answer → America turned on new 400 yottawatt generator36 DownReveal answer → See 10196 DownReveal answer → The title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey67 DownReveal answer → Cosily warm (Informal)67 DownReveal answer → Force couple into bunk for hours at any time97 DownReveal answer → American singer and songwriter who was Bobby Hatfield's partner in The Righteous Brothers108 DownReveal answer → Tentacled creature regularly painted with submariner in its grip78 DownReveal answer → Song written by Mike d'Abo that became the theme song of the BBC series The Office1910 DownReveal answer → Name of the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam911 DownReveal answer → Hit611 DownReveal answer → Persimmon managed to furnish houses auctioneer emptied1112 DownReveal answer → Spire713 DownReveal answer → Iced drink614 DownReveal answer → How to get Elan where cars are banned?914 DownReveal answer → Variety of wheat516 DownReveal answer → Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician who was the last President of Czechoslovakia1116 DownReveal answer → Man who refused to father children reversed consent repeatedly717 DownReveal answer → Peerage expected by Cummings, perhaps stopped by king718 DownReveal answer → Decay319 DownReveal answer → Rating's announced for electrical unit720 DownReveal answer → Rose runs after very naughty boy, wanting his name523 DownReveal answer → Swiss writer whose books include How Proust Can Change Your Life and Essays In Love1323 DownReveal answer → The county town of Fingal in the Republic of Ireland624 DownReveal answer → Lose head in fight on the town325 DownReveal answer → 1963 hit single by The Crystals written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector1126 DownReveal answer → 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence527 DownReveal answer → The sixth moon of the planet Jupiter, and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites629 DownReveal answer → River that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire for most of its 75 mile length531 DownReveal answer → English folk-rock band who had hit singles with Gaudete and All Around My Hat1232 DownReveal answer → The largest Arab country in the Middle East1134 DownReveal answer → Latin phrase meaning 'beyond one's powers or authority'1035 DownReveal answer → Plant similar to the daffodil, which grows from a bulb and has white or yellow flowers, often heavily scented937 DownReveal answer → Morocco's largest city and chief port1038 DownReveal answer → See 231340 DownReveal answer → Elvis Presley number one single issued as a double A-side with I Got Stung842 DownReveal answer → English rock band fronted by Ian Astbury744 DownReveal answer → Small smooth-haired breed of dog of African origin with an inability to bark745 DownReveal answer → In Gothic architecture, a tertiary rib connecting one rib to another647 DownReveal answer →

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