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The Independent Crossword October 8 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 60 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 60 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 8 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Native Australian, reportedly, may fish with spectacles81 AcrossReveal answer → Kind of smoked salmon31 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional story43 AcrossReveal answer → Argue about doubtless empty promises55 AcrossReveal answer → Famous person98 AcrossReveal answer → Decay39 AcrossReveal answer → Back condition precisely since shifting piano79 AcrossReveal answer → Cowardly church batsman at last covers exposed stumps710 AcrossReveal answer → Investigate710 AcrossReveal answer → Lazy local layabout finally receiving benefit811 AcrossReveal answer → Dodge511 AcrossReveal answer → Call up Roger the day before drinks512 AcrossReveal answer → Kitchen implement1113 AcrossReveal answer → English journalist catches new couple wrapped around each other814 AcrossReveal answer → Cold walk westwards on island's frozen region615 AcrossReveal answer → Crinkled fabric517 AcrossReveal answer → Agitation719 AcrossReveal answer → Non-mainstream labels pass to enter popular stage at the front619 AcrossReveal answer → Haircut320 AcrossReveal answer → Lawyer, rotten, somehow always defends821 AcrossReveal answer → Financial aspects922 AcrossReveal answer → Lopsided423 AcrossReveal answer → Auditor's swallowed the number of 1A 5 found here523 AcrossReveal answer → Finish324 AcrossReveal answer → Glad Iona's otherwise inclined826 AcrossReveal answer → Put an end to brief trouble728 AcrossReveal answer → Apprentice's exhausted tutor coming to the fore in racecourse729 AcrossReveal answer → Secure ecstasy lines spread?530 AcrossReveal answer → No way Princess Charlotte could be seen here!831 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Bolstered by beer, Kelvin leaves41 DownReveal answer → Servile follower61 DownReveal answer → Percussion instrument92 DownReveal answer → Proposed and married at home, American's celebrated outside92 DownReveal answer → Perhaps53 DownReveal answer → Closely examine text from addenda NATO misedited93 DownReveal answer → Recording device Ted Moore deployed84 DownReveal answer → Rocky hill34 DownReveal answer → Overseas65 DownReveal answer → Maybe cow hide stripped back in cattle compound56 DownReveal answer → Winter sleep116 DownReveal answer → Butcher’s counter, missing section, fine propped up57 DownReveal answer → Alternative57 DownReveal answer → Withhold earnings from any prude at work88 DownReveal answer → Pretty prompt time being kept410 DownReveal answer → Express regret912 DownReveal answer → 50% from European capital struggle313 DownReveal answer → Tropical bird614 DownReveal answer → Celebrity artist, discarding wrapper, brandishes foil?814 DownReveal answer → Skindiving apparatus515 DownReveal answer → Sweet little engine going back through Switzerland at end of fête916 DownReveal answer → Shut616 DownReveal answer → Manoeuvre crane into storage vessel917 DownReveal answer → Foe518 DownReveal answer → Furtive latte arranged during fling818 DownReveal answer → Hope wife's left note of reservation320 DownReveal answer → Bend321 DownReveal answer → Fan favourite left international cricket match uplifted422 DownReveal answer → Cutting from pollinating or seeding plant524 DownReveal answer → Where TV director might cut amphibians525 DownReveal answer → Most amusing male couple?427 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, October 8, 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.