The Independent Crossword October 26 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 114 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 26 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.

Also solved on October 26

Daily Themed Crossword Eugene Sheffer Crossword

Across

Click a clue to reveal the answer

ClueLetters#Answer

Style61 AcrossReveal answer → Beverage34 AcrossReveal answer → Housing development67 AcrossReveal answer → Fights over one bill where alcohol's served87 AcrossReveal answer → Goes off round India with maiden being selfish68 AcrossReveal answer → Citrus fruit68 AcrossReveal answer → General practitioner129 AcrossReveal answer → Gershwin back in Paris310 AcrossReveal answer → End a phone call610 AcrossReveal answer → Fly to Sweden, get confused and disappear911 AcrossReveal answer → Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port Moresby1411 AcrossReveal answer → Three times612 AcrossReveal answer → Kind drunkard takes in Loomer finally412 AcrossReveal answer → A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the Talmud713 AcrossReveal answer → Made up by performing fleas513 AcrossReveal answer → Swedish actress whose films include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat and The Artist's Wife814 AcrossReveal answer → Epic poem by Walter Scott that contains the lines "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!"715 AcrossReveal answer → Female figure on horseback acquires a following - patriot?715 AcrossReveal answer → The best1215 AcrossReveal answer → African country whose capital is Luanda616 AcrossReveal answer → Question One all for now maybe: who is extremely credulous?1316 AcrossReveal answer → 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt417 AcrossReveal answer → Gripping tool618 AcrossReveal answer → Large sea duck of the genus Somateria518 AcrossReveal answer → Outer wall of a castle619 AcrossReveal answer → Child grasps right and wrong419 AcrossReveal answer → Knighted English actor born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 19331220 AcrossReveal answer → Wood320 AcrossReveal answer → A person dedicated to a monastic or religious life621 AcrossReveal answer → Box621 AcrossReveal answer → Thought of euphemism finally: 'pre-loved'521 AcrossReveal answer → Overtake swimmer422 AcrossReveal answer → 1978 Richard Attenborough horror film with a screenplay by William Goldman, based on his own novel523 AcrossReveal answer → Former presenter, one nominally clever, trapped in channel924 AcrossReveal answer → English actor whose TV roles include Dr Geoffrey Brent in Police Surgeon and Dr David Keel in The Avengers925 AcrossReveal answer → Léon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after him827 AcrossReveal answer → Drug agent - it's very fishy looking back427 AcrossReveal answer → I think Bari's wrong - it's somewhere else in Italy628 AcrossReveal answer → Song from the 1967 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book subtitled The Python's Song929 AcrossReveal answer → How to dispose of rubbish janitor regularly collects from scratch829 AcrossReveal answer → The part of the eyeball consisting of the iris, ciliary body and choroid431 AcrossReveal answer → American actor and comedian who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour series of films1132 AcrossReveal answer → Swedish actress and singer whose films include The Wicker Man and The Man with the Golden Gun1133 AcrossReveal answer → Island in the Channel Islands ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dame437 AcrossReveal answer → Common name for Flacourtia indica, a species of flowering plant with plumlike fruits939 AcrossReveal answer → Setting for Shakespeare's play Hamlet841 AcrossReveal answer → 1971 British crime film starring "20 Across", "25 Across" and "33 Across"942 AcrossReveal answer → The goddess of peace in Greek mythology544 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo645 AcrossReveal answer → Channel between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska1247 AcrossReveal answer → Measure of the weight of precious stones, now standardised as 0.20 grams549 AcrossReveal answer → Village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire best known for its large coal-fired power station451 AcrossReveal answer → The 50th state of the United States652 AcrossReveal answer → Edmond ___, French playwright and poet best known for his verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac753 AcrossReveal answer → English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and Adonis854 AcrossReveal answer → Justin ___, Canadian prime minister from 2015755 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played John Thaw's sidekick in The Sweeney1456 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

Click a clue to reveal the answer

ClueLetters#Answer

Fit youngster has nothing for self-defence61 DownReveal answer → The North American name for swede81 DownReveal answer → Eyelash make-up71 DownReveal answer → On building a nest, start to feel secure again82 DownReveal answer → See 43142 DownReveal answer → Approaching72 DownReveal answer → Stretch over, has a rest43 DownReveal answer → Australian river that rises as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flows to the Indian Ocean below Perth43 DownReveal answer → Foe53 DownReveal answer → Man maybe seduced with no protection from doctor44 DownReveal answer → Heavily-built short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions64 DownReveal answer → Characteristic feature54 DownReveal answer → Ire55 DownReveal answer → Crete-born physician to Nero who left instructions for making theriac, a compound medicine and antidote, in a poem115 DownReveal answer → Cancel out Tyneside scandal?65 DownReveal answer → Blasted creature that might get shot on reflection66 DownReveal answer → Retire gracefully66 DownReveal answer → A small ensemble of street musicians in Mexico86 DownReveal answer → American actress who married Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior, in 1965107 DownReveal answer → Bob Dylan song that is the final track on The Band's debut album Music from Big Pink168 DownReveal answer → Brand name for the drug Sildenafil citrate69 DownReveal answer → Kidnap victim, female wearing old clothes, turned up79 DownReveal answer → R M ___, Scottish author noted for adventure stories such as The Coral Island1010 DownReveal answer → Penalise611 DownReveal answer → Central character in Henry Fielding's fourth and final novel, published in 17511112 DownReveal answer → See 15 Across713 DownReveal answer → Behave wildly713 DownReveal answer → Business714 DownReveal answer → Silly birds?514 DownReveal answer → Burst of fire515 DownReveal answer → Former queen and working mother716 DownReveal answer → Impudence516 DownReveal answer → Leg bone517 DownReveal answer → Top student with papers317 DownReveal answer → Female companion and drunk carrying on in sleeper818 DownReveal answer → The spoken form of Modern Greek719 DownReveal answer → Pub in Cheers against online service620 DownReveal answer → Crazy promotion in two thousand and one621 DownReveal answer → African country whose capital is Malabo1622 DownReveal answer → Left one capital to go round another623 DownReveal answer → An obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling a guitar724 DownReveal answer → Tea dance (a third one)425 DownReveal answer → A streamlined mound of glacial drift726 DownReveal answer → Lamb Smith cooking doesn't require starter426 DownReveal answer → An insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae728 DownReveal answer → An oval earthenware cooking dish with a tightly fitting lid used for pâtés etc730 DownReveal answer → American TV series starring Jeremy Allen White as chef Carmy Berzatt734 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Bismarck1135 DownReveal answer → Song from Oklahoma! performed by Connie Booth as Polly in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers1136 DownReveal answer → Character in EastEnders played by Anita Dobson from 1985 to 19881038 DownReveal answer → The skeleton of the human foot consisting of five long bones1040 DownReveal answer → 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band1443 DownReveal answer → Popular nickname for US First Lady Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson846 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from Crete648 DownReveal answer → A small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera that lays its eggs in, water649 DownReveal answer → Polynesian island whose capital is Papeete650 DownReveal answer → 1975 Steven Spielberg film based on a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley454 DownReveal answer →

The Independent archive

October 11, 2026 — Sunday October 10, 2026 — Saturday October 9, 2026 — Friday October 8, 2026 — Thursday October 7, 2026 — Wednesday October 6, 2026 — Tuesday October 5, 2026 — Monday October 4, 2026 — Sunday October 3, 2026 — Saturday October 2, 2026 — Friday

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, October 26, 2024. 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.