The Independent Crossword October 12 2024 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 12 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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Tree trunk41 AcrossReveal answer → Port wine from Spain, 60% of it31 AcrossReveal answer → Lack of conviction53 AcrossReveal answer → Crusts, extremely hard, start to soften with olive oil spread113 AcrossReveal answer → Cut off58 AcrossReveal answer → Disgust when daughter yields to soft drug59 AcrossReveal answer → English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908119 AcrossReveal answer → Mobile phone facility79 AcrossReveal answer → Depravity of curt highwayman given semi-freedom910 AcrossReveal answer → Lighting1210 AcrossReveal answer → Envoy611 AcrossReveal answer → Judas Priest's last run -- top-notch nonsense, on reflection711 AcrossReveal answer → An atom or group of atoms containing at least one unpaired electron and existing for a brief period of time before reacting to produce a stable molecule1112 AcrossReveal answer → Shunned promo surrounding video nasty712 AcrossReveal answer → Bronzed613 AcrossReveal answer → Unknown newly formed tribunal protects tree913 AcrossReveal answer → A mature female elephant, whale or seal314 AcrossReveal answer → Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements715 AcrossReveal answer → European capital once outside old part of France515 AcrossReveal answer → "God Is" -- thus pens poet516 AcrossReveal answer → Almond-flavoured cake1216 AcrossReveal answer → Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor Who516 AcrossReveal answer → Small duck such as Anas crecca417 AcrossReveal answer → Form of American music that evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century618 AcrossReveal answer → Notice small girl face crowds918 AcrossReveal answer → American heavyweight boxer who won gold at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul919 AcrossReveal answer → Pacify719 AcrossReveal answer → Glossy fabric520 AcrossReveal answer → Association that may pursue Internet café building?720 AcrossReveal answer → Widely-cultivated Asian plant whose bulb is made up of small segments known as cloves620 AcrossReveal answer → Easily angered521 AcrossReveal answer → 1949 Ealing comedy based on a novel of the same name by Compton MacKenzie1221 AcrossReveal answer → Having trust, priest interrupts tirade ...721 AcrossReveal answer → Rotterdam-based football club who won the European Cup in 1970922 AcrossReveal answer → Irish Gaelic422 AcrossReveal answer → A semi-synthetic fibre manufactured from regenerated cellulose523 AcrossReveal answer → An appendage on seeds such as those of the yew and nutmeg424 AcrossReveal answer → ... when tipped about minister promoting riddance of toxic waste924 AcrossReveal answer → Historic general caught on air?526 AcrossReveal answer → 1978 film starring Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boys' school1026 AcrossReveal answer → Will causing stir in TV family with sibling on Ecstasy1127 AcrossReveal answer → Tease youngster328 AcrossReveal answer → Original name for the Ivor Novello song republished as Keep the Home-Fires Burning1930 AcrossReveal answer → Area of North Bristol with a bohemian reputation1034 AcrossReveal answer → Annual malvaceous plant, Hibiscus esculentus, also called ladies’ fingers435 AcrossReveal answer → Kate & ___, US sitcom that starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin536 AcrossReveal answer → European umbelliferous plant whose leaves are known as cilantro in American culinary usage939 AcrossReveal answer → Dorchester in the novels of Thomas Hardy1242 AcrossReveal answer → A style of solo opera singing between recitative and aria644 AcrossReveal answer → Knighted character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night945 AcrossReveal answer → Diurnal fish-eating bird of prey sometimes called a sea hawk646 AcrossReveal answer → Villainous ensign in Shakespeare's Othello447 AcrossReveal answer → Tree also known as the trembling poplar548 AcrossReveal answer → The administrative centre of Norfolk749 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable whose varieties include Early Perfection and Kelvedon Wonder351 AcrossReveal answer → A collective bet in which the stake and winnings on each successive event are carried forward to the next1152 AcrossReveal answer → Australian river sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries1153 AcrossReveal answer →

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Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the Girl111 DownReveal answer → Initially reels out old scores to settle51 DownReveal answer → Savage71 DownReveal answer → 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band142 DownReveal answer → Pacific battle's fine, mostly from one point of view72 DownReveal answer → On a horizontal plane52 DownReveal answer → 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little43 DownReveal answer → Drunk crosses motorway verge53 DownReveal answer → End123 DownReveal answer → Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934144 DownReveal answer → Mythical creature74 DownReveal answer → Amend year's-end VAT for 11th of November in the US114 DownReveal answer → Roman robe45 DownReveal answer → American TV quiz show in which contestants are presented with answers and must phrase their responses in question form85 DownReveal answer → Starts to lose one's rag -- blimey35 DownReveal answer → Treatment using fragrances126 DownReveal answer → Ordinary people wanting current vote in Ohio resolved96 DownReveal answer → The aromatic plant Artemisia dracunculus, whose leaves are used as seasoning86 DownReveal answer → Pilotless aircraft57 DownReveal answer → Michael ___, English filmmaker whose works include Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo and the TV series The Trip127 DownReveal answer → Souped up international Catholic organisation77 DownReveal answer → Career fortunate for Veronica98 DownReveal answer → Album by Antony and the Johnsons that won the Mercury Music Prize in 2005118 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Trenton910 DownReveal answer → Irish-bred racehorse that won the 1999 Grand National711 DownReveal answer → Contend712 DownReveal answer → Intermediate-level cover at last sent out with tours1112 DownReveal answer → The only Chinese-language film to win the Cannes Palme d'Or1913 DownReveal answer → Squander brief daytime kip, getting maximally flushed?913 DownReveal answer → Where stamen of dianthus is enjoying good health914 DownReveal answer → Easing of tension714 DownReveal answer → Watch part515 DownReveal answer → In the manner of517 DownReveal answer → Foreign character, American in Illinois, checks onset of shooting from the hip?717 DownReveal answer → Back of the lower leg418 DownReveal answer → Nauseous, as we say, intermittently, so back to work719 DownReveal answer → The standard monetary unit of Iran419 DownReveal answer → HE authority supports termination of educational director522 DownReveal answer → With time, maybe dock material523 DownReveal answer → Presenter of the quiz show Ask the Family from 1967 to 19841425 DownReveal answer → Lapwing regularly dropped bristly growth on grass325 DownReveal answer → Fictional hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World427 DownReveal answer → The fourth largest investment bank in the USA before declaring bankruptcy in 20081428 DownReveal answer → Language also known as Siamese429 DownReveal answer → UEFA trophy won by Newcastle United in 20061231 DownReveal answer → A book that indexes the principal words in a literary work1132 DownReveal answer → British TV presenter, actor, writer and director seen as Leo Jones in Doctor Who1133 DownReveal answer → Ribbed material commonly used by artists for charcoal drawings937 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife438 DownReveal answer → The fourth and last compartment of the stomach of ruminants840 DownReveal answer → Cambodian photojournalist portrayed by Haing S Ngor in the 1984 film The Killing Fields841 DownReveal answer → Italian town after which a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea is named743 DownReveal answer → IsiZulu word for any armed body of men, used in English to refer to a Zulu regiment450 DownReveal answer →

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