The Independent Crossword November 9 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 114 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 9 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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Staffed61 AcrossReveal answer → Unpredictable blunder by a jerk71 AcrossReveal answer → Bird devouring a little green creature?75 AcrossReveal answer → Number in an octet55 AcrossReveal answer → Jewellery item88 AcrossReveal answer → "Exercises make me exhausted" - the answer, ultimately, is a step-counter99 AcrossReveal answer → Pleasant49 AcrossReveal answer → Finance officer910 AcrossReveal answer → Beat target after taking time to get really good510 AcrossReveal answer → John the Baptist's father910 AcrossReveal answer → Preserve the ends of celery511 AcrossReveal answer → Popular song by Michael Edwards and Bud Green that has been recorded by Tommy Dorsey, Patti Page and The Chimes, among others1212 AcrossReveal answer → Camera accessory1312 AcrossReveal answer → Cat, saving skin, went haphazardly through grass then went through again912 AcrossReveal answer → Live at home, spinning, with wicked fairy tale character1013 AcrossReveal answer → A top ten hit single for The Who in 19651214 AcrossReveal answer → Nonsense915 AcrossReveal answer → Four nations of Britain, with king in charge415 AcrossReveal answer → Former England cricket captain who also played football for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United915 AcrossReveal answer → English cricketer best known for captaining the English team during the 1932–33 'Bodyline' Ashes tour of Australia1416 AcrossReveal answer → Feature, part of inglenook418 AcrossReveal answer → 'Deceptively roomy' base used instead of a vacated lobby1019 AcrossReveal answer → Coffin stand419 AcrossReveal answer → Augusto ___, president of Chile from 1974 to 1990 following his overthrow of Salvador Allende819 AcrossReveal answer → Scope820 AcrossReveal answer → Salad plant521 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Charles Dickens centred around the Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce1021 AcrossReveal answer → Collector's item622 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly, the Soviet administrative department responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps523 AcrossReveal answer → Flaming spirit comes with a piece of fruit923 AcrossReveal answer → Paper neckwear worn by spymaster524 AcrossReveal answer → American record label founded in 1971, specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne625 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the larynx826 AcrossReveal answer → Bishop Saint leaving foul smell where tramps hang about?526 AcrossReveal answer → Bluebird's little brother tipped oil on Gran's front, making a mess927 AcrossReveal answer → Frenzied mob bringing loads back round for village raffle?728 AcrossReveal answer → Former England cricket captain who established a charitable foundation in honour of his late wife Ruth1328 AcrossReveal answer → Filming takes place here, in genteel street729 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish disco singer, born Jacqueline McKinnon, who had a 1980 UK number one with Feels Like I'm in Love1033 AcrossReveal answer → What the C stands for in CV1035 AcrossReveal answer → Captain of the England cricket team for 45 Test matches from 1999 to 20031337 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for coriander838 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Greece641 AcrossReveal answer → The Japanese art of fencing544 AcrossReveal answer → Former England cricket captain who was one of the team captains on the BBC quiz They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 20031045 AcrossReveal answer → Former Surrey and England captain who was Chairman of the England cricket selectors from 1982 to 1989847 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played Johnny Cash in the film Walk the Line1449 AcrossReveal answer → New Zealand-born cricketer who hit an unbeaten 135 to win the Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019951 AcrossReveal answer → Former England cricket captain who overtook Wally Hammond as the most prolific Test batsman1253 AcrossReveal answer → American editor and author who was editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s and founding editor of Esquire UK in 19901256 AcrossReveal answer → Tree whose edible green kernels are used in ice creams957 AcrossReveal answer →

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Former producer of The Jam close to getting pregnant91 DownReveal answer → European country that existed from October 1918 to January 1993141 DownReveal answer → Possibly writing a note on part of table52 DownReveal answer → A pictorial representation of a facility on a computer system42 DownReveal answer → Runway82 DownReveal answer → Upstanding Conservative chasing cat with medium-sized balls83 DownReveal answer → Mineral that is the chief source of lead63 DownReveal answer → Specialised corner of the market53 DownReveal answer → One serves three queens74 DownReveal answer → Yorkshire valleys54 DownReveal answer → Willo the ___, TV cartoon series narrated by Kenneth Williams featuring the characters Mavis Cruet and Evil Edna44 DownReveal answer → Defenders during indirect free kicks and pens75 DownReveal answer → Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998115 DownReveal answer → Captivate75 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, a recognised scholar and teacher of the Jewish Law66 DownReveal answer → Non-specific76 DownReveal answer → Music about horse leading a race at the end66 DownReveal answer → Small nail47 DownReveal answer → Canadian city that is the capital of Manitoba87 DownReveal answer → Make heavy weather of disbanding riots around the church and M&S97 DownReveal answer → Title of Iranian kings including the Achaemenid dynasty which unified Persia48 DownReveal answer → Famous reason for tears at bedtime?58 DownReveal answer → A burning torch, as used in night processions89 DownReveal answer → Exactly (of a time)811 DownReveal answer → The rough skin of certain sharks and rays, used as an abrasive811 DownReveal answer → The fruit of the oak tree513 DownReveal answer → Fencer's warning713 DownReveal answer → Endnote written by EU academic bringing up setter's moniker914 DownReveal answer → Small snacks714 DownReveal answer → Well-shaken Prosecco cracked open by unknown contraption916 DownReveal answer → Go into516 DownReveal answer → Iridaceous plant also called a sword lily917 DownReveal answer → Neverland residents, terribly bossy lot, but others may be found around here817 DownReveal answer → Entomb517 DownReveal answer → Bluish-white metal418 DownReveal answer → ___ de paume, French ball-and-court game that was a medal event at the 1908 Summer Olympics318 DownReveal answer → Spice cocktail drunk up by second of two secretaries720 DownReveal answer → See 22920 DownReveal answer → Treatable bum ulcer lanced by sailor721 DownReveal answer → Duo comprising brothers Pat and Greg Kane best known for their 1987 top ten hit Labour of Love922 DownReveal answer → Chet, wasted, supported by backing tracks in nightclubs?622 DownReveal answer → Worker that's turned on by stink-infested rubbish523 DownReveal answer → 1923 French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, that used then-revolutionary lighting techniques624 DownReveal answer → Member of a Mexican Indian people who established a great empire that was overthrown by Cortés in the early 16th century525 DownReveal answer → Amoral maniac losing a tooth525 DownReveal answer → City and port in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo527 DownReveal answer → Sayeeda ___, baroness who co-chaired the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012529 DownReveal answer → Any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist930 DownReveal answer → Adele's first number one single in the UK1431 DownReveal answer → Jim's dog in Friday Night Dinner632 DownReveal answer → Belgian town in West Flanders province that was completely destroyed in World War I534 DownReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for Leaving Las Vegas1136 DownReveal answer → British racehorse trainer who trained the Oaks winners Ouija Board and Snow Fairy840 DownReveal answer → Medieval courtyard house in Sutton Courtenay bought by David Astor in 1958842 DownReveal answer → A female sheep343 DownReveal answer → Sport using small light canoe-like boats844 DownReveal answer → The French word for wine346 DownReveal answer → The innermost of Jupiter's known moons548 DownReveal answer → A kind of quartz, usually red in colour, used as a gemstone649 DownReveal answer → An oriental pipe also called a hubble-bubble650 DownReveal answer → Russian for 'no'452 DownReveal answer → Graham ___, former member of The Hollies best known for his collaboration with David Crosby and Stephen Stills454 DownReveal answer → Anders ___, 18th-century Swedish botanist after whom a popular herbaceous perennial plant is named455 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, November 9, 2024. 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.