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The Independent Crossword October 15 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 58 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 58 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 15 2026. 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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See 28171 AcrossReveal answer → Vend41 AcrossReveal answer → Check mark43 AcrossReveal answer → Airman58 AcrossReveal answer → 1930s design style79 AcrossReveal answer → Stitches710 AcrossReveal answer → Conducted electricity activates this310 AcrossReveal answer → Ski run511 AcrossReveal answer → Wheel around two kings in cars - Beetles?1111 AcrossReveal answer → Gardens close to trees where squirrels are going about512 AcrossReveal answer → Support strike covered by the odd newspaper913 AcrossReveal answer → Not afraid or hesitant1113 AcrossReveal answer → Run and run in dress covered in stalks914 AcrossReveal answer → Elementary515 AcrossReveal answer → Apprehensive717 AcrossReveal answer → Tea service one knocked over518 AcrossReveal answer → Profuse719 AcrossReveal answer → In audition, 40 do really well519 AcrossReveal answer → Groups of actors, say, unclothed, went cycling, bless 'em920 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of weight521 AcrossReveal answer → Dry422 AcrossReveal answer → One watching actor with pets at play922 AcrossReveal answer → Leg joint423 AcrossReveal answer → One serving drink? One leaving drink?525 AcrossReveal answer → Revived, cuckoo raced up tree1127 AcrossReveal answer → Book act performed by prison officer?1728 AcrossReveal answer → Actor and journalist in front of court with Democrat framed by charges1429 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hair problem91 DownReveal answer → Fewer than one in Vichy turned Communist52 DownReveal answer → Word-for-word72 DownReveal answer → Skin on head pierced by 100 cuts53 DownReveal answer → Tally53 DownReveal answer → Snooker stick34 DownReveal answer → Front and back of jet plane54 DownReveal answer → Unlucky actor may struggle to remember them95 DownReveal answer → Musical work45 DownReveal answer → Burst into song about the end of all trouble and strife?56 DownReveal answer → Part of a cooked fowl116 DownReveal answer → Amount of medicine47 DownReveal answer → Judges probing material for actors' read-through97 DownReveal answer → Group of 9s we initially suggested to bad actor78 DownReveal answer → Actor in Powell & Pressburger's first film69 DownReveal answer → Room with large windows912 DownReveal answer → Whaling spear714 DownReveal answer → Support415 DownReveal answer → Almost all actors put up with Republican bully that can't be criticised915 DownReveal answer → Multitude516 DownReveal answer → Set stage up316 DownReveal answer → Abolish patent department without getting upset917 DownReveal answer → Observed418 DownReveal answer → Branch without the first letter - ranch?318 DownReveal answer → Damaged steel cases about film studio719 DownReveal answer → Standard score320 DownReveal answer → Enormous tree that contains human habitations?621 DownReveal answer → Warm-blooded creature one turned on with naked girl523 DownReveal answer → Proportion of inspiration and perspiration? It's roughly 45% and 42%524 DownReveal answer → Woman left behind when knight's thrown out of hole in the wall?525 DownReveal answer → Teacher in top half of tree, holding out nuts526 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, October 15, 2026. 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.