The Independent Crossword October 24 2026 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 24 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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Gift from 9 15, much ridiculed affair with Eze, Pepi and Cunha at first confused141 AcrossReveal answer → Aquatic bird41 AcrossReveal answer → Wharf43 AcrossReveal answer → Go-between127 AcrossReveal answer → Common name for the 1804 poem And did those feet in ancient time by William Blake99 AcrossReveal answer → Food regimen49 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of Eastbourne-born singer Graham Pulleyblank, best known for his 1968 single Little Arrows810 AcrossReveal answer → Recommend810 AcrossReveal answer → Leaderless Japan makes a decisive point510 AcrossReveal answer → Half of e-tailer about right to be included in decoration for president's achievement (certainly not 20's)911 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian actor who played Austin Powers in the eponymous film series912 AcrossReveal answer → Toxophilite612 AcrossReveal answer → Abandoned VAR in an ideal world?712 AcrossReveal answer → State agency arrests one involved in corruption713 AcrossReveal answer → 20's immigration forces essentially banning Mexican people of old514 AcrossReveal answer → Sagacity614 AcrossReveal answer → Former England midfielder who left his role as Burnley head coach earlier this year after their relegation back to the EFL Championship was confirmed1115 AcrossReveal answer → Blameworthy815 AcrossReveal answer → I like eyes taking in new jab916 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of Sir Richard Starkey1016 AcrossReveal answer → The third western to win Best Picture at the Oscars, following Cimarron and Dances with Wolves1017 AcrossReveal answer → Frozen rain417 AcrossReveal answer → The second most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris, after Boulogne-Billancourt1018 AcrossReveal answer → American car factory's beginning - of course every now and then - to produce optical device919 AcrossReveal answer → Mostly faithful politician?520 AcrossReveal answer → A greyish-brown North American flycatcher of the genus Sayornis620 AcrossReveal answer → A deeply-ingrained tendency1220 AcrossReveal answer → Eyelid inflammation421 AcrossReveal answer → They could be frosty without the final bit of insulation722 AcrossReveal answer → Broad422 AcrossReveal answer → See 12922 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of the US singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist born Eunice Kathleen Waymon1024 AcrossReveal answer → Cyclist's carrying headgear prior to a break725 AcrossReveal answer → Mineral form of sodium chloride commonly known as rock salt625 AcrossReveal answer → Soft silvery-white metallic element whose atomic number is 56626 AcrossReveal answer → Composer Bohuslav inspires each English writer927 AcrossReveal answer → French luxury cosmetics company founded by a medical student in 1954727 AcrossReveal answer → One who backed Orban against a new candidate's extremist elements528 AcrossReveal answer → Idiot inviting doctor to reverse most of crime stories in book1429 AcrossReveal answer → Town in North Holland on the IJsselmeer noted for its cheese430 AcrossReveal answer → English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series1131 AcrossReveal answer → A small flightless South American bird resembling the ostrich432 AcrossReveal answer → W A ___, English clergyman renowned for transposition of the initial consonants or consonant clusters of a pair of words736 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the green woodpecker638 AcrossReveal answer → A musical composition such as Beethoven's Waldstein, Appassionata or Hammerklavier639 AcrossReveal answer → Composer of the music for Show Boat1041 AcrossReveal answer → Any of a family of primordial gods, the sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaea543 AcrossReveal answer → French city whose Gothic cathedral is the largest church in France645 AcrossReveal answer → A flat, house or other lodging for secondary or occasional use, literally 'foot on ground' in French1046 AcrossReveal answer → The opening track and lead single from the Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers1047 AcrossReveal answer → Presenter of QI from 2003 to 20161050 AcrossReveal answer → The southern peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth1152 AcrossReveal answer → An open pastry or sponge tart filled with fruit or a savoury mixture453 AcrossReveal answer → English football team nicknamed the Valiants854 AcrossReveal answer → Kent market town that is home to the oldest brewery in Britain955 AcrossReveal answer →

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Church tax51 DownReveal answer → Australian state whose capital is Sydney131 DownReveal answer → Flawed statement from 4?92 DownReveal answer → Very lightly cooked42 DownReveal answer → Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961132 DownReveal answer → Kneecap nearly (but not totally) something that makes you feel unwell53 DownReveal answer → Impractically idealistic83 DownReveal answer → A type of nuclear reactor that produces at least as much fissionable material as it uses113 DownReveal answer → Plant of the genus Pelargonium84 DownReveal answer → Some say 20 is one putting up enclosure to confine Gulf state resident94 DownReveal answer → Attack from the sky74 DownReveal answer → A good time in Galway's disco, regularly visited with converted car55 DownReveal answer → Impediment95 DownReveal answer → Irish county whose county town is Tralee55 DownReveal answer → Tall grass stalk46 DownReveal answer → 1966 double album by Bob Dylan146 DownReveal answer → Fantastic idea: put on Mozart's KV 365 for example96 DownReveal answer → Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus47 DownReveal answer → Sleep during sex - that's not appropriate57 DownReveal answer → Food fish98 DownReveal answer → Actress whose films include Dangerous Liaisons, Beautiful Girls and Pulp Fiction108 DownReveal answer → Raise tax on energy after Europeans acquire oil finally78 DownReveal answer → Perhaps Rivera or Versace's private numbers gathered by AI69 DownReveal answer → Not to mention811 DownReveal answer → Collection of 5k events founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in Bushy Park in London in 2004711 DownReveal answer → Pick up713 DownReveal answer → Children's game featuring plastic rods and marbles first marketed by the Ideal Toy Company in 1967813 DownReveal answer → Short-legged, long-bodied dog with long wiry hair and erect ears1114 DownReveal answer → World Cup president endlessly wanting inside information915 DownReveal answer → Swimming-pool416 DownReveal answer → Farm building, old, like the ones accommodating half of us917 DownReveal answer → Entertain518 DownReveal answer → Being surplus, Liverpool player leaves for one billion - that's more than enough918 DownReveal answer → Dreadful times when sickness is around719 DownReveal answer → The seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar619 DownReveal answer → Indian dress419 DownReveal answer → Those getting money and power turned up later621 DownReveal answer → Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice about the second wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón521 DownReveal answer → When taking part in basic skills regularly, A & E will become increasingly bloody523 DownReveal answer → The capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg923 DownReveal answer → Lovely sound of Grieg's Holberg for one524 DownReveal answer → Flat in Cleveland526 DownReveal answer → Australian director whose films include Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy1426 DownReveal answer → A small case of choux pastry with a sweet or savoury filling1128 DownReveal answer → English actor who found fame playing Tim Canterbury in The Office1329 DownReveal answer → The capital of Vietnam533 DownReveal answer → Italian city in Emilia-Romagna formerly ruled by the Este family634 DownReveal answer → American inventor associated with the sewing machine whose first patent was for a machine to drill rock1135 DownReveal answer → Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime1037 DownReveal answer → British actor who found fame playing Jamal Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire840 DownReveal answer → See 21342 DownReveal answer → Language created by by George Orwell in the novel 1984844 DownReveal answer → 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey set in the fictional Rydell High School648 DownReveal answer → Species of wheat that was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times549 DownReveal answer → American sports channel that is a joint venture of the Walt Disney Company, Hearst Communications and the NFL451 DownReveal answer →

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