The Independent Crossword November 16 2024 Answers

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Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 16 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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Old lovers view sex differently71 AcrossReveal answer → Agriculturist61 AcrossReveal answer → It's Spooner's dad who's reserved takeaway?75 AcrossReveal answer → Body of water35 AcrossReveal answer → 1952 American musical comedy film featuring the characters Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown and Lina Lamont158 AcrossReveal answer → Piles128 AcrossReveal answer → Sellers gaze across the far side of market59 AcrossReveal answer → How about drink before setting?910 AcrossReveal answer → Pulses510 AcrossReveal answer → Opponent of technological innovation711 AcrossReveal answer → Insubstantial brownies? First piece dispatched911 AcrossReveal answer → Rhythmic use of words shows man in Paris to be French512 AcrossReveal answer → Tempt612 AcrossReveal answer → Island in the Inner Hebrides that is the site of Fingal's Cave612 AcrossReveal answer → Retiring personal assistant gets colourful ring413 AcrossReveal answer → Vote Little Richard 'exhilarating'814 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese golfer whose real first name is Masashi1014 AcrossReveal answer → Short-sightedness614 AcrossReveal answer → The tallest structure in Africa between 1961 and 19711015 AcrossReveal answer → The mafia's conspiracy of silence616 AcrossReveal answer → See 202117 AcrossReveal answer → Hug717 AcrossReveal answer → Comprehensive contract covers termination818 AcrossReveal answer → Danger519 AcrossReveal answer → Stone wall's bare, needing work on face419 AcrossReveal answer → Working at a second job1220 AcrossReveal answer → England midfielder who joined Besiktas from Liverpool in 20232120 AcrossReveal answer → Indicate assent321 AcrossReveal answer → A rich crumbly biscuit with a large proportion of butter1021 AcrossReveal answer → Why, for the most part, entertaining fellas regularly fail to pay522 AcrossReveal answer → Spring flowers622 AcrossReveal answer → Slander cricketer possessing unnatural ability?924 AcrossReveal answer → Actress, comedienne and singer whose hit singles included cover versions of They Don't Know and Move Over Darling1224 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps baptism’s slammed in memoirs926 AcrossReveal answer → 1999 Frank Oz film written by and starring Steve Martin926 AcrossReveal answer → One who follows march in dull clothes527 AcrossReveal answer → Natural earth used as a yellow or red pigment528 AcrossReveal answer → Decline brought surgical procedure and occupational therapy728 AcrossReveal answer → Time for Biden to wander around shopping centre?729 AcrossReveal answer → A gold-coloured alloy of copper, tin, or zinc used to decorate furniture, mouldings, etc629 AcrossReveal answer → Australian golfer who won the USPGA Championship in 1979 and the US Open in 19811130 AcrossReveal answer → Yevgeny ___, Russian poet whose works include Babi Yar1132 AcrossReveal answer → Song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the film Orchestra Wives, famously covered by Etta James in 1960636 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a monster with nine heads, each of which was replaced by two new ones when cut off538 AcrossReveal answer → Tod ___, English actor whose films include King of the Underworld and Murder at Scotland Yard940 AcrossReveal answer → Dudley-born tennis player who won the ladies' singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 19371242 AcrossReveal answer → German international defender who was part of Leicester City's Premier League title-winning team in 20161043 AcrossReveal answer → Island in the Channel Islands ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dame445 AcrossReveal answer → 2011 film starring Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Redmayne, based on books by Colin Clark1747 AcrossReveal answer → The primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara650 AcrossReveal answer → See 151051 AcrossReveal answer → The fish Salmo trutta1053 AcrossReveal answer → Taiwanese-born director, screenwriter and producer whose films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi655 AcrossReveal answer → 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf centring on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye1556 AcrossReveal answer →

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Forceful politician, hard one to quote without getting upset81 DownReveal answer → Morbid fear of cats121 DownReveal answer → Devious wiretap traps Panama's top ecstasy/marijuana transporter92 DownReveal answer → A former Indian copper coin, worth one sixteenth of a rupee42 DownReveal answer → Unyielding72 DownReveal answer → Precise guards provided evidence63 DownReveal answer → Daughter to Simonides and Pericles' wife in the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre63 DownReveal answer → Epidemic parotitis53 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Suva44 DownReveal answer → American brought up his poorly prepared food54 DownReveal answer → Seldom64 DownReveal answer → Heroin supplier went soft inside, letting head drop95 DownReveal answer → Fantasy fiction55 DownReveal answer → Popular song from Mary Poppins, composed by Robert B Sherman and Richard M Sherman165 DownReveal answer → Responsible106 DownReveal answer → Greatness can emerge from Harpenden (or MIT/Yale)86 DownReveal answer → Grey mineral that is the chief source of lead66 DownReveal answer → Of poor quality67 DownReveal answer → Rob Holding expects Ipswich to start with speediest wingers57 DownReveal answer → Michael Jackson's first solo album on Epic Records, produced by Quincy Jones107 DownReveal answer → Sanctimonious German writer's filthy accommodation68 DownReveal answer → Another name for a male turkey79 DownReveal answer → Royal Navy sailor109 DownReveal answer → The god of the sea, fishing and prosperity in Norse mythology510 DownReveal answer → Title shared by albums by Little Walter and Robert Wyatt1011 DownReveal answer → 1960 Russ Conway single that was EMI's last 78rpm record1013 DownReveal answer → Crib613 DownReveal answer → Former politician maybe reading first books: he likes the ones with stickers!914 DownReveal answer → Root vegetable715 DownReveal answer → Inept old minister initially shaken, church members not being up for service915 DownReveal answer → Stature616 DownReveal answer → Bent cop's car carries heroin, a reliable money-maker816 DownReveal answer → Wheels are so versatile817 DownReveal answer → Vital fluid518 DownReveal answer → Character in Last of the Summer Wine played by Peter Sallis518 DownReveal answer → Plant part519 DownReveal answer → The European freshwater fish Rutilus rutilus519 DownReveal answer → Shade diminishing as wife moves south620 DownReveal answer → Mapmakers following city descent621 DownReveal answer → 1971 top ten hot for Ray Stevens subtitled The Queen of The Blues1622 DownReveal answer → An Old World variety of sorghum cultivated for grain and fodder523 DownReveal answer → Put a brake on Coot's drunken arrests523 DownReveal answer → Unit of luminance named after an 18th century German physicist725 DownReveal answer → Fibrous tissue is held up, previously unseen525 DownReveal answer → Region of New Zealand's North Island whose major centre is the city of Hamilton727 DownReveal answer → American International Master and New York Times chess columnist who wrote many books about chess1031 DownReveal answer → James ___, Belgian expressionist painter, associated with the group Les XX, noted for his macabre subjects533 DownReveal answer → American actress whose films include Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Wimbledon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind1234 DownReveal answer → Suburb of Birmingham that produced such notable performers as Steel Pulse, Joan Armatrading and Benjamin Zephaniah1035 DownReveal answer → Composer of Rule Britannia, which appears in his masque Alfred1037 DownReveal answer → A playing card or dice with two pips or spots539 DownReveal answer → 1986 release by Public Image Ltd, also known as Compact Disc or Cassette depending on the format541 DownReveal answer → Portuguese goalkeeper who played 20 league games for Chelsea between 2006 and 2014744 DownReveal answer → Anil ___, the only Indian cricketer to have taken all 10 wickets in a Test innings646 DownReveal answer → Cousin of Juliet killed by Romeo in a duel in Shakespeare's play648 DownReveal answer → Jochen ___, the only driver to win the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship posthumously549 DownReveal answer → The crosswise yarns that fill the warp yarns in weaving, also called weft452 DownReveal answer → ___ da Polga, fictional guinea pig in a series of children's books by Paddington Bear author Michael Bond454 DownReveal answer →

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