The Independent Crossword September 12 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 12 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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Tall41 AcrossReveal answer → Storage frameworks53 AcrossReveal answer → Leaping insect47 AcrossReveal answer → Reckless boldness88 AcrossReveal answer → Troops in disarray after Ukraine's leader pulls out completely78 AcrossReveal answer → Type of warship99 AcrossReveal answer → Rather stained pants79 AcrossReveal answer → The lowest temperature theoretically attainable1211 AcrossReveal answer → Outlaw's backside shot in heist situation?311 AcrossReveal answer → Give way612 AcrossReveal answer → Retired army engineers beside university wearing ties and tails?1112 AcrossReveal answer → English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita1013 AcrossReveal answer → Precision613 AcrossReveal answer → Crack habit fellow's lost413 AcrossReveal answer → Outspoken TV football pundit who won 67 caps for the Republic of Ireland814 AcrossReveal answer → Mythical character with a strange, exhausted call1015 AcrossReveal answer → Campanile915 AcrossReveal answer → Tough elastic tissue composing most of the embryonic skeleton of vertebrates915 AcrossReveal answer → The first book of the Old Testament716 AcrossReveal answer → Cycle race first organised in 1909 to increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport1117 AcrossReveal answer → Heartless, ill-equipped English joiners do this518 AcrossReveal answer → American primatologist and conservationist who wrote the book Gorillas in the Mist1018 AcrossReveal answer → Recommend818 AcrossReveal answer → One ignored by unkind older boys319 AcrossReveal answer → Jump420 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish drink of red wine, sugar, fruit juice and iced soda720 AcrossReveal answer → Informers probed by the first of eight judges520 AcrossReveal answer → Authority (Informal)521 AcrossReveal answer → See 14821 AcrossReveal answer → 3 containing nuts feed 50 people working alongside one another1021 AcrossReveal answer → Narrow road422 AcrossReveal answer → American conglomerate transferring money for weapons422 AcrossReveal answer → Style of jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie522 AcrossReveal answer → Old plastic pierced the skin of nectarine and went through1125 AcrossReveal answer → The return of bloody conflict327 AcrossReveal answer → Swedish pop group who had a 1993 number one hit with All That She Wants927 AcrossReveal answer → Permit this girl to carry a whip728 AcrossReveal answer → American TV presenter who has hosted American Idol since 20021229 AcrossReveal answer → Fast Show729 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for Calvary830 AcrossReveal answer → An assembly of guests in a fashionable household from the 17th to the early 20th centuries532 AcrossReveal answer → The principal town on the Isle of Bute833 AcrossReveal answer → 1818 novel by Mary Shelley1235 AcrossReveal answer → Rock group whose albums include Pablo Honey and In Rainbows937 AcrossReveal answer → The oldest of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers539 AcrossReveal answer → 2000 Bruce Paltrow film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti and Huey Lewis540 AcrossReveal answer → Motto of the Prince of Wales741 AcrossReveal answer → 1980s BBC sitcom starring George Cole as Reg Dudgeon1046 AcrossReveal answer → The guitarist of rock band the Police1148 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican food item whose name literally means 'young donkey'749 AcrossReveal answer → American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and film director best known for fronting the band Limp Bizkit950 AcrossReveal answer → Long-tailed rodent of the superfamily Muroidea352 AcrossReveal answer → Early form of bicycle, originally one propelled by the feet on the ground1053 AcrossReveal answer → German idealist philosopher whose works include a Critique of Pure Reason1254 AcrossReveal answer →

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Song that induces sleep61 DownReveal answer → Common name for a fish of the Osteoglossidae family101 DownReveal answer → Assistance41 DownReveal answer → Metal bird without wings attached42 DownReveal answer → North American name for courgette82 DownReveal answer → Man of high rank72 DownReveal answer → Cricket equipment with bad smell relations rejected53 DownReveal answer → Riot control substance also called lacrimator73 DownReveal answer → Fishing pole33 DownReveal answer → Overconfident54 DownReveal answer → Is a top from Lidl keeping cycling old lady at a constant temperature?104 DownReveal answer → An edible marine gastropod of the genus Littorina104 DownReveal answer → David Copperfield's first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens115 DownReveal answer → Soak85 DownReveal answer → 1 2 3 445 DownReveal answer → American actress, comedian and singer whose films include What's Up, Doc?, Young Frankenstein and Paper Moon126 DownReveal answer → Wicker cradle86 DownReveal answer → Change the police force's core mode of transport106 DownReveal answer → The ratio of sine to cosine77 DownReveal answer → Yankee steamship features in poem with American protagonist87 DownReveal answer → See 5118 DownReveal answer → Painting by Vincent van Gogh that became the most expensive painting ever sold in 198769 DownReveal answer → Shoes drinkers left inside810 DownReveal answer → 2005 musical featuring the story and music of The Four Seasons1010 DownReveal answer → Famous810 DownReveal answer → Caribbean island811 DownReveal answer → African country formerly called Upper Volta1112 DownReveal answer → A piece of cake that's presented at kid's party?1014 DownReveal answer → Flower petals collectively714 DownReveal answer → Smooth, enchanting women wasting time making lunch at work?1016 DownReveal answer → Slightly crazy (Informal)516 DownReveal answer → Review the latest part of The Archers - 'rubbish'817 DownReveal answer → Counterfeit417 DownReveal answer → Cover of avant-garde album about river eels, oddly818 DownReveal answer → American actress and singer whose films include The Truman Show, Mystic River and Sully1119 DownReveal answer → In the past319 DownReveal answer → The nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place523 DownReveal answer → In theory, one should put this on the second lock623 DownReveal answer → 1856 painting by French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris724 DownReveal answer → Skilled acrobat's beginning atop branch shortly524 DownReveal answer → See 511125 DownReveal answer → Lift base of seat in which hammers are found426 DownReveal answer → A military display or pageant, usually at night626 DownReveal answer → Something pulled out and went427 DownReveal answer → Ad hoc band that created the song Vindaloo as an unofficial England anthem for the 1998 FIFA World Cup628 DownReveal answer → The first Muppet other than Kermit to feature as the main protagonist in a Muppet film531 DownReveal answer → Punjab-born actor whose British TV series include The Jewel in the Crown, Tandoori Nights and Coronation Street1232 DownReveal answer → French poet and art critic who was the founder and chief theorist of surrealism1134 DownReveal answer → Stage name of Chris Millar as drummer of the Damned1036 DownReveal answer → Sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter as landlord Rupert Rigsby1037 DownReveal answer → Belgian bicycle racer whose eleven Grand Tour wins include the "17 Across" five times1038 DownReveal answer → Daughter of Grant and Tiffany Mitchell born in 1997 in EastEnders842 DownReveal answer → Autonomous region of Spain on the Bay of Biscay whose capital is Santiago de Compostela743 DownReveal answer → Novel by Toni Morrison that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988744 DownReveal answer → An outlet from a water main from which water can be tapped for fighting fires745 DownReveal answer → Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means "young blackbird"647 DownReveal answer → American actor best known for playing "Ponch" in the TV series CHiPs1151 DownReveal answer →

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