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The Independent Crossword October 26 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 114 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 26 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 114 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#
StyleMANNER6Across1 BeverageTEA3Across4 Housing developmentESTATE6Across7 Fights over one bill where alcohol's servedWINEBARS8Across7 Goes off round India with maiden being selfishEGOISM6Across8 Citrus fruitORANGE6Across8 General practitionerFAMILYDOCTOR12Across9 Gershwin back in ParisIRA3Across10 End a phone callHANGUP6Across10 Fly to Sweden, get confused and disappearSKEDADDLE9Across11 Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port MoresbyPAPUANEWGUINEA14Across11 Three timesTHRICE6Across12 Kind drunkard takes in Loomer finallySORT4Across12 A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the TalmudYESHIVA7Across13 Made up by performing fleasFALSE5Across13 Swedish actress whose films include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat and The Artist's WifeLENAOLIN8Across14 Epic poem by Walter Scott that contains the lines "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!"MARMION7Across15 Female figure on horseback acquires a following - patriot?MAGAFAN7Across15 The bestSECONDTONONE12Across15 African country whose capital is LuandaANGOLA6Across16 Question One all for now maybe: who is extremely credulous?QANONFOLLOWER13Across16 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of EgyptAIDA4Across17 Gripping toolPLIERS6Across18 Large sea duck of the genus SomateriaEIDER5Across18 Outer wall of a castleBAILEY6Across19 Child grasps right and wrongTORT4Across19 Knighted English actor born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933MICHAELCAINE12Across20 WoodOAK3Across20 A person dedicated to a monastic or religious lifeOBLATE6Across21 BoxCARTON6Across21 Thought of euphemism finally: 'pre-loved'MUSED5Across21 Overtake swimmerGOBY4Across22 1978 Richard Attenborough horror film with a screenplay by William Goldman, based on his own novelMAGIC5Across23 Former presenter, one nominally clever, trapped in channelDAVIDICKE9Across24 English actor whose TV roles include Dr Geoffrey Brent in Police Surgeon and Dr David Keel in The AvengersIANHENDRY9Across25 Léon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after himFOUCAULT8Across27 Drug agent - it's very fishy looking backNARC4Across27 I think Bari's wrong - it's somewhere else in ItalyUMBRIA6Across28 Song from the 1967 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book subtitled The Python's SongTRUSTINME9Across29 How to dispose of rubbish janitor regularly collects from scratchABINITIO8Across29 The part of the eyeball consisting of the iris, ciliary body and choroidUVEA4Across31 American actor and comedian who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour series of filmsCHRISTUCKER11Across32 Swedish actress and singer whose films include The Wicker Man and The Man with the Golden GunBRITTEKLAND11Across33 Island in the Channel Islands ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dameSARK4Across37 Common name for Flacourtia indica, a species of flowering plant with plumlike fruitsRAMONTCHI9Across39 Setting for Shakespeare's play HamletELSINORE8Across41 1971 British crime film starring "20 Across", "25 Across" and "33 Across"GETCARTER9Across42 The goddess of peace in Greek mythologyIRENE5Across44 Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of ApolloDELPHI6Across45 Channel between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in AlaskaBERINGSTRAIT12Across47 Measure of the weight of precious stones, now standardised as 0.20 gramsCARAT5Across49 Village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire best known for its large coal-fired power stationDRAX4Across51 The 50th state of the United StatesHAWAII6Across52 Edmond ___, French playwright and poet best known for his verse drama Cyrano de BergeracROSTAND7Across53 English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and AdonisJOHNBLOW8Across54 Justin ___, Canadian prime minister from 2015TRUDEAU7Across55 Actor who played John Thaw's sidekick in The SweeneyDENNISWATERMAN14Across56

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Fit youngster has nothing for self-defenceAIKIDO6Down1 The North American name for swedeRUTABAGA8Down1 Eyelash make-upMASCARA7Down1 On building a nest, start to feel secure againREFASTEN8Down2 See 43RHAPSODYINBLUE14Down2 ApproachingNEARING7Down2 Stretch over, has a restNAPS4Down3 Australian river that rises as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flows to the Indian Ocean below PerthSWAN4Down3 FoeENEMY5Down3 Man maybe seduced with no protection from doctorISLE4Down4 Heavily-built short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regionsFULMAR6Down4 Characteristic featureTRAIT5Down4 IreANGER5Down5 Crete-born physician to Nero who left instructions for making theriac, a compound medicine and antidote, in a poemANDROMACHUS11Down5 Cancel out Tyneside scandal?NEGATE6Down5 Blasted creature that might get shot on reflectionGODDAM6Down6 Retire gracefullyBOWOUT6Down6 A small ensemble of street musicians in MexicoMARIACHI8Down6 American actress who married Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior, in 1965DYANCANNON10Down7 Bob Dylan song that is the final track on The Band's debut album Music from Big PinkISHALLBERELEASED16Down8 Brand name for the drug Sildenafil citrateVIAGRA6Down9 Kidnap victim, female wearing old clothes, turned upSHERGAR7Down9 R M ___, Scottish author noted for adventure stories such as The Coral IslandBALLANTYNE10Down10 PenalisePUNISH6Down11 Central character in Henry Fielding's fourth and final novel, published in 1751AMELIABOOTH11Down12 See 15 AcrossMAGAFAN7Down13 Behave wildlyRUNRIOT7Down13 BusinessCONCERN7Down14 Silly birds?LOONS5Down14 Burst of fireSALVO5Down15 Former queen and working motherQUONDAM7Down16 ImpudenceCHEEK5Down16 Leg boneTIBIA5Down17 Top student with papersLID3Down17 Female companion and drunk carrying on in sleeperWAGONLIT8Down18 The spoken form of Modern GreekDEMOTIC7Down19 Pub in Cheers against online serviceTAVERN6Down20 Crazy promotion in two thousand and oneMADMAN6Down21 African country whose capital is MalaboEQUATORIALGUINEA16Down22 Left one capital to go round anotherBERLIN6Down23 An obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling a guitarGITTERN7Down24 Tea dance (a third one)CHAI4Down25 A streamlined mound of glacial driftDRUMLIN7Down26 Lamb Smith cooking doesn't require starterELIA4Down26 An insect of the orthopterous family GryllidaeCRICKET7Down28 An oval earthenware cooking dish with a tightly fitting lid used for pâtés etcTERRINE7Down30 American TV series starring Jeremy Allen White as chef Carmy BerzattTHEBEAR7Down34 US state whose capital is BismarckNORTHDAKOTA11Down35 Song from Oklahoma! performed by Connie Booth as Polly in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty TowersICAINTSAYNO11Down36 Character in EastEnders played by Anita Dobson from 1985 to 1988ANGIEWATTS10Down38 The skeleton of the human foot consisting of five long bonesMETATARSUS10Down40 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz bandRHAPSODYINBLUE14Down43 Popular nickname for US First Lady Claudia Alta Taylor JohnsonLADYBIRD8Down46 In Greek mythology, a son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from CreteICARUS6Down48 A small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera that lays its eggs in, waterCADDIS6Down49 Polynesian island whose capital is PapeeteTAHITI6Down50 1975 Steven Spielberg film based on a 1974 novel by Peter BenchleyJAWS4Down54

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