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The Independent Crossword October 9 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 9 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
Naval front line to keep moving about51 AcrossReveal answer → Regret31 AcrossReveal answer → Cooking fat43 AcrossReveal answer → Baffled guy about Channel Islands’ architectural style94 AcrossReveal answer → Type of doctor127 AcrossReveal answer → Snaking dance58 AcrossReveal answer → Cut glass79 AcrossReveal answer → Piano runs are frustrating in Chopin piece?79 AcrossReveal answer → Not a canine? Man with this could create Canis Minor!710 AcrossReveal answer → Hot and cold water source returned for repair511 AcrossReveal answer → Alcoholic drink611 AcrossReveal answer → Limitations of sound expert restricting new variety entertainment?912 AcrossReveal answer → Little sound from those delivering aerobatic display?1113 AcrossReveal answer → Material613 AcrossReveal answer → Suggestion King should abandon foreign visit?315 AcrossReveal answer → Crude strength when stripped?316 AcrossReveal answer → Highly-strung716 AcrossReveal answer → Mystic helping to obscure start of regular astronomical event1117 AcrossReveal answer → Paved area518 AcrossReveal answer → Productive compound in effect must include iodine918 AcrossReveal answer → Boastful1220 AcrossReveal answer → Flood defence421 AcrossReveal answer → Old woman satisfied US playwright521 AcrossReveal answer → Mesh322 AcrossReveal answer → One-third of judges tucking into booze? It’s bad for the case723 AcrossReveal answer → Think little of reckless speeds around island724 AcrossReveal answer → Recent upset? Diminished, losing initial upright character925 AcrossReveal answer → Felon taking piano and flute526 AcrossReveal answer →

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Rather solemn youngster in online ad51 DownReveal answer → Ascended51 DownReveal answer → Clear dispute about Henry’s cricketing blunder92 DownReveal answer → Green gemstone72 DownReveal answer → Fortunate53 DownReveal answer → Refuse to consider some fun, having nowhere to play tennis?153 DownReveal answer → Suppose visitors to be out of time54 DownReveal answer → Nuclear apparatus74 DownReveal answer → Internal manoeuvres swamping Italy every thousand days roughly95 DownReveal answer → Simple wooden dwelling85 DownReveal answer → Pair56 DownReveal answer → Popular tune - claim disc misrepresented original theatrical version?156 DownReveal answer → Writer that is penning nonsense, note57 DownReveal answer → Writer – uplifting stuff – anxious to include supposedly standard speech98 DownReveal answer → Sport810 DownReveal answer → By now712 DownReveal answer → Pope modified line when among simple marine folk913 DownReveal answer → Painkiller714 DownReveal answer → Cheap tyre burst for example914 DownReveal answer → Sacred song515 DownReveal answer → Top figures university brought in to cut back a lot of green915 DownReveal answer → Snow leopard517 DownReveal answer → Features limiting Republican debacle519 DownReveal answer → Game fish519 DownReveal answer → Stirs black powder up around diamonds520 DownReveal answer → Weight lifting record broken by right fool522 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, October 9, 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.