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The Independent Crossword October 12 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 12 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Tree trunkBOLE4Across1 Port wine from Spain, 60% of itRIO3Across1 Lack of convictionDOUBT5Across3 Crusts, extremely hard, start to soften with olive oil spreadLIVELIHOODS11Across3 Cut offSEVER5Across8 Disgust when daughter yields to soft drugOPIUM5Across9 English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908FRANKHORNBY11Across9 Mobile phone facilityROAMING7Across9 Depravity of curt highwayman given semi-freedomTURPITUDE9Across10 LightingILLUMINATION12Across10 EnvoyLEGATE6Across11 Judas Priest's last run -- top-notch nonsense, on reflectionTRAITOR7Across11 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 moleculeFREERADICAL11Across12 Shunned promo surrounding video nastyAVOIDED7Across12 BronzedTANNED6Across13 Unknown newly formed tribunal protects treeBRAZILNUT9Across13 A mature female elephant, whale or sealCOW3Across14 Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movementsPICABIA7Across15 European capital once outside old part of FranceLOIRE5Across15 "God Is" -- thus pens poetODIST5Across16 Almond-flavoured cakeBAKEWELLTART12Across16 Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor WhoPIPER5Across16 Small duck such as Anas creccaTEAL4Across17 Form of American music that evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th centuryZYDECO6Across18 Notice small girl face crowdsDISMISSAL9Across18 American heavyweight boxer who won gold at the 1988 Olympics in SeoulRAYMERCER9Across19 PacifyAPPEASE7Across19 Glossy fabricSATIN5Across20 Association that may pursue Internet café building?SOCIETY7Across20 Widely-cultivated Asian plant whose bulb is made up of small segments known as clovesGARLIC6Across20 Easily angeredFIERY5Across21 1949 Ealing comedy based on a novel of the same name by Compton MacKenzieWHISKYGALORE12Across21 Having trust, priest interrupts tirade ...RELIANT7Across21 Rotterdam-based football club who won the European Cup in 1970FEYENOORD9Across22 Irish GaelicERSE4Across22 A semi-synthetic fibre manufactured from regenerated celluloseRAYON5Across23 An appendage on seeds such as those of the yew and nutmegARIL4Across24 ... when tipped about minister promoting riddance of toxic wasteELIMINANT9Across24 Historic general caught on air?CLIVE5Across26 1978 film starring Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boys' schoolABSOLUTION10Across26 Will causing stir in TV family with sibling on EcstasyTELEKINESIS11Across27 Tease youngsterKID3Across28 Original name for the Ivor Novello song republished as Keep the Home-Fires BurningTILLTHEBOYSCOMEHOME19Across30 Area of North Bristol with a bohemian reputationMONTPELIER10Across34 Annual malvaceous plant, Hibiscus esculentus, also called ladies’ fingersOKRA4Across35 Kate & ___, US sitcom that starred Susan Saint James and Jane CurtinALLIE5Across36 European umbelliferous plant whose leaves are known as cilantro in American culinary usageCORIANDER9Across39 Dorchester in the novels of Thomas HardyCASTERBRIDGE12Across42 A style of solo opera singing between recitative and ariaARIOSO6Across44 Knighted character in Shakespeare's Twelfth NightTOBYBELCH9Across45 Diurnal fish-eating bird of prey sometimes called a sea hawkOSPREY6Across46 Villainous ensign in Shakespeare's OthelloIAGO4Across47 Tree also known as the trembling poplarASPEN5Across48 The administrative centre of NorfolkNORWICH7Across49 Vegetable whose varieties include Early Perfection and Kelvedon WonderPEA3Across51 A collective bet in which the stake and winnings on each successive event are carried forward to the nextACCUMULATOR11Across52 Australian river sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributariesCOOPERCREEK11Across53

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Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the GirlTRACEYTHORN11Down1 Initially reels out old scores to settleROOST5Down1 SavageBESTIAL7Down1 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz bandRHAPSODYINBLUE14Down2 Pacific battle's fine, mostly from one point of viewOKINAWA7Down2 On a horizontal planeLEVEL5Down2 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by LittleERIC4Down3 Drunk crosses motorway vergeLIMIT5Down3 EndDRAWTOACLOSE12Down3 Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934TROPICOFCANCER14Down4 Mythical creatureUNICORN7Down4 Amend year's-end VAT for 11th of November in the USVETERANSDAY11Down4 Roman robeTOGA4Down5 American TV quiz show in which contestants are presented with answers and must phrase their responses in question formJEOPARDY8Down5 Starts to lose one's rag -- blimeyLOR3Down5 Treatment using fragrancesAROMATHERAPY12Down6 Ordinary people wanting current vote in Ohio resolvedHOIPOLLOI9Down6 The aromatic plant Artemisia dracunculus, whose leaves are used as seasoningTARRAGON8Down6 Pilotless aircraftDRONE5Down7 Michael ___, English filmmaker whose works include Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo and the TV series The TripWINTERBOTTOM12Down7 Souped up international Catholic organisationOPUSDEI7Down7 Career fortunate for VeronicaSPEEDWELL9Down8 Album by Antony and the Johnsons that won the Mercury Music Prize in 2005IAMABIRDNOW11Down8 US state whose capital is TrentonNEWJERSEY9Down10 Irish-bred racehorse that won the 1999 Grand NationalBOBBYJO7Down11 ContendGRAPPLE7Down12 Intermediate-level cover at last sent out with toursALTOSTRATUS11Down12 The only Chinese-language film to win the Cannes Palme d'OrFAREWELLMYCONCUBINE19Down13 Squander brief daytime kip, getting maximally flushed?BLOWSIEST9Down13 Where stamen of dianthus is enjoying good healthINTHEPINK9Down14 Easing of tensionDETENTE7Down14 Watch partBEZEL5Down15 In the manner ofAFTER5Down17 Foreign character, American in Illinois, checks onset of shooting from the hip?ISCHIAL7Down17 Back of the lower legCALF4Down18 Nauseous, as we say, intermittently, so back to workSEASICK7Down19 The standard monetary unit of IranRIAL4Down19 HE authority supports termination of educational directorLUCAS5Down22 With time, maybe dock materialTWEED5Down23 Presenter of the quiz show Ask the Family from 1967 to 1984ROBERTROBINSON14Down25 Lapwing regularly dropped bristly growth on grassAWN3Down25 Fictional hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New WorldSOMA4Down27 The fourth largest investment bank in the USA before declaring bankruptcy in 2008LEHMANBROTHERS14Down28 Language also known as SiameseTHAI4Down29 UEFA trophy won by Newcastle United in 2006INTERTOTOCUP12Down31 A book that indexes the principal words in a literary workCONCORDANCE11Down32 British TV presenter, actor, writer and director seen as Leo Jones in Doctor WhoREGGIEYATES11Down33 Ribbed material commonly used by artists for charcoal drawingsLAIDPAPER9Down37 In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wifeLEAH4Down38 The fourth and last compartment of the stomach of ruminantsABOMASUM8Down40 Cambodian photojournalist portrayed by Haing S Ngor in the 1984 film The Killing FieldsDITHPRAN8Down41 Italian town after which a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea is namedSALERNO7Down43 IsiZulu word for any armed body of men, used in English to refer to a Zulu regimentIMPI4Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.