The Independent Crossword October 17 2026 Answers

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Below are all 107 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 17 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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Surrender41 AcrossReveal answer → Knitting stitch43 AcrossReveal answer → Salt healthy, it's accepted?66 AcrossReveal answer → Tribute67 AcrossReveal answer → Ice cream dessert68 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional stories109 AcrossReveal answer → The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test match139 AcrossReveal answer → My visiting Paris disconcerted fliers89 AcrossReveal answer → Henry in literature showing signs of pain810 AcrossReveal answer → Parasite chief shortly about to leave611 AcrossReveal answer → Jewelled headdress511 AcrossReveal answer → Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977, 2005 and 2022912 AcrossReveal answer → Courteous512 AcrossReveal answer → Avoid where water's full of crap! Point taken - very reprehensible ultimately612 AcrossReveal answer → Ladies not finishing frivolous chatter? That's a hypothetical concept813 AcrossReveal answer → Shakespears Sister's only UK number one single414 AcrossReveal answer → City of NW Spain, home to the country's oldest university915 AcrossReveal answer → City game in shade415 AcrossReveal answer → Member of the armed forces1016 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer Beals816 AcrossReveal answer → Bone's top piece put back517 AcrossReveal answer → English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of London1117 AcrossReveal answer → The most capped English Test wicket-keeper1118 AcrossReveal answer → Complaint - coffee break about to be shortened419 AcrossReveal answer → Have a proper place619 AcrossReveal answer → Stringed instrument620 AcrossReveal answer → Trade name for a scouring pad made from steel wool filled with soap, patented in 1913620 AcrossReveal answer → Article dissects southern French city and English town820 AcrossReveal answer → Rubber wheel-covering421 AcrossReveal answer → District of the City of Westminster named after London's first neo-classical building, built by the Adam brothers721 AcrossReveal answer → A marine percoid fish of the family Labridae622 AcrossReveal answer → Second-hand422 AcrossReveal answer → Trail suspect over bridge622 AcrossReveal answer → Put the lid on drink624 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 single by Prince that reached number two in the US1426 AcrossReveal answer → Literary tale-teller keeps home for fashion designer826 AcrossReveal answer → Ammo run out with day in battle827 AcrossReveal answer → Nut - like to eat shells628 AcrossReveal answer → The only man to have twice won all four Grand Slam tennis singles titles in the same year829 AcrossReveal answer → Shipboard game in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net1031 AcrossReveal answer → The first document forced onto an English king by a group of his subjects1033 AcrossReveal answer → The Croatian name for Croatia836 AcrossReveal answer → English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken1438 AcrossReveal answer → Texas city in which John F Kennedy was assassinated640 AcrossReveal answer → Vivid red colour that was originally a name for fine cloth742 AcrossReveal answer → A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a removable front cover and a back cover which folds down644 AcrossReveal answer → Cricketer who hit the final ball he faced in Test cricket for 6 and took a wicket with the final ball he bowled in Test cricket1147 AcrossReveal answer → Cricketer who captained England once, in a draw with New Zealand in 1999 when Nasser Hussain was injured1149 AcrossReveal answer → BBC Two sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan851 AcrossReveal answer → Essex town which contains the sub-district of Bocking952 AcrossReveal answer → 1993 album and single by James453 AcrossReveal answer → The third book of the Old Testament954 AcrossReveal answer → The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution1355 AcrossReveal answer →

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Harry turned up carrying a plant61 DownReveal answer → Post traditionally rewarded with "a butt of sack"121 DownReveal answer → Wooden shoe41 DownReveal answer → Save? Get cross about worthless pieces here?152 DownReveal answer → Lead guitarist of the band Travis102 DownReveal answer → Silence on the radio72 DownReveal answer → Said about Charlie: 'E's a know-all63 DownReveal answer → 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers73 DownReveal answer → Former Spanish currency unit63 DownReveal answer → Of the kidneys54 DownReveal answer → Recalled mineral contained in seaweed44 DownReveal answer → Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces54 DownReveal answer → Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo Rosso75 DownReveal answer → Fashionable but not after potential partner85 DownReveal answer → Facial hair55 DownReveal answer → The first track and field athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympics86 DownReveal answer → Root vegetable76 DownReveal answer → Official language of Israel67 DownReveal answer → Break under 50 Ronnie's last - it's unexpected97 DownReveal answer → The largest lake in England108 DownReveal answer → Famous artist's space by town78 DownReveal answer → Carmen ___, American boxer who beat Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 to become the undisputed world middleweight champion710 DownReveal answer → Trendy person710 DownReveal answer → A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type711 DownReveal answer → American bandleader whose band premiered Rhapsody in Blue with George Gershwin on piano1213 DownReveal answer → Sloping letters713 DownReveal answer → Unmarried614 DownReveal answer → Overlapping signs for places of learning914 DownReveal answer → Condescend515 DownReveal answer → About time! A thorough search for where bodies are buried816 DownReveal answer → Spacious517 DownReveal answer → American comic's original lines - slick but not edgy material718 DownReveal answer → Hairless418 DownReveal answer → American swing and bebop trumpeter who was a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz1019 DownReveal answer → Bring up smell in river621 DownReveal answer → These are found in Booker-winning novel623 DownReveal answer → The King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828523 DownReveal answer → 2008 film featuring a Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Robert Downey Jr724 DownReveal answer → Go round and round in flipping boring routine425 DownReveal answer → Character in The Lord of the Rings first introduced with the name Strider725 DownReveal answer → Father of Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream527 DownReveal answer → Olympic swimmer who first starred as Tarzan in 19331228 DownReveal answer → Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 20031030 DownReveal answer → US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphone1234 DownReveal answer → See 191035 DownReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for In the Heat of the Night1037 DownReveal answer → The older sister of Keith Chegwin and the first female presenter to have a daily music show on BBC Radio 11039 DownReveal answer → Pakistani-born British actor whose TV roles include Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown841 DownReveal answer → Actor who played the title role in the TV series Lou Grant743 DownReveal answer → Guitarist, vocalist and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground744 DownReveal answer → Silvery-white metallic chemical element with the atomic number 92745 DownReveal answer → Umbelliferous Old World plant, Sium sisarum, cultivated for its edible tuberous roots746 DownReveal answer → The brightest star in the constellation Aquila648 DownReveal answer → The ancient Greek underworld550 DownReveal answer →

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