The Independent Crossword September 19 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 115 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 115 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 19 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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Piercing tool31 AcrossReveal answer → Brilliant goddess in wood81 AcrossReveal answer → Carefully considers63 AcrossReveal answer → Slightly opening case from Hastings customs66 AcrossReveal answer → Nought47 AcrossReveal answer → French stick88 AcrossReveal answer → A bigot rolled with rugger match in disorder169 AcrossReveal answer → Woolgatherer109 AcrossReveal answer → Italian poet losing heart in court410 AcrossReveal answer → Screen hero in Slough works611 AcrossReveal answer → Home of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, currently known as the American Express Stadium for sponsorship reasons1312 AcrossReveal answer → Swiss dish612 AcrossReveal answer → Cynical outlook reported in most recent epoch?812 AcrossReveal answer → Six-legged creature613 AcrossReveal answer → Why blame for Strictly row should be shared?1713 AcrossReveal answer → Portuguese international forward who died in a car crash in 2025914 AcrossReveal answer → The traditional idealised rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry715 AcrossReveal answer → Slow Scottish dance1015 AcrossReveal answer → Irish cyclist who won the 1988 Vuelta a España916 AcrossReveal answer → Order parts for ordinary instrument416 AcrossReveal answer → See 271417 AcrossReveal answer → English pop group whose hit singles included The Bump, Fancy Pants and Julie Anne517 AcrossReveal answer → Female offspring818 AcrossReveal answer → The state capital of New York618 AcrossReveal answer → Unique sort against an enemy turned King in with Duke1019 AcrossReveal answer → The animal Cervus elaphus719 AcrossReveal answer → Entrance420 AcrossReveal answer → American state nicknamed 'The Small Wonder'820 AcrossReveal answer → Forgive621 AcrossReveal answer → Domestic animal322 AcrossReveal answer → Way through Scots mountains becomes wider822 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a maiden who lost a race to Hippomenes when she paused to pick up three golden apples823 AcrossReveal answer → Quarters affected? Pitch tents624 AcrossReveal answer → Musical duo comprising 5cc of 10cc1425 AcrossReveal answer → Opponent pawns this occasionally426 AcrossReveal answer → Credit Blenheim for rearranging detailed figures?1427 AcrossReveal answer → See 91628 AcrossReveal answer → Fish indeed chasing drunken Scots about829 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian singer-songwriter whose hits include Constant Craving629 AcrossReveal answer → The second largest island in Orkney, after Mainland330 AcrossReveal answer → Former England goalkeeper whose clubs have included Leeds United, Liverpool and Manchester City1131 AcrossReveal answer → August 1, held as a feast in the Roman Catholic church, commemorating St Peter’s miraculous deliverance from prison634 AcrossReveal answer → CITV series presented by Neil Buchanan from 1990 to 2007936 AcrossReveal answer → The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth637 AcrossReveal answer → English actor whose TV work includes the title roles in I, Claudius and Cadfael1140 AcrossReveal answer → A card game similar to whist, usually played for stakes341 AcrossReveal answer → British pub rock band who recorded the 1970s albums Seriously Speaking and Every Day642 AcrossReveal answer → English musician and actor who has narrated the Channel 4 show First Dates since 20151444 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 John Badham film starring Matthew Broderick845 AcrossReveal answer → The Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology848 AcrossReveal answer → Breakfast food consisting of rolled oats, nuts, honey or other sweeteners, and sometimes puffed rice750 AcrossReveal answer → Opera by Leoš Janácek based on the play Její pastorkyna by Gabriela Preissová652 AcrossReveal answer → The set of values that a variable can take556 AcrossReveal answer → Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera subtitled The Town of Titipu957 AcrossReveal answer → Saudi Arabian multi-sports club whose name is Arabic for 'the crescent moon'758 AcrossReveal answer → With Kimya Dawson, one half of American indie group The Moldy Peaches959 AcrossReveal answer → Goon whose books include Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall1360 AcrossReveal answer →

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Israeli singer, songwriter and actress who voiced the character Yocheved in The Prince of Egypt, singing Deliver Us81 DownReveal answer → Once more41 DownReveal answer → Anthem: keen on it when rector enters72 DownReveal answer → Nickname of the English pirate Edward Teach102 DownReveal answer → Dancer's garment72 DownReveal answer → Woman cold in rising river53 DownReveal answer → The "great Lion" of C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe53 DownReveal answer → Witty person33 DownReveal answer → Dramatic effect in Goethe a treat74 DownReveal answer → Lion in the TV series The Herbs74 DownReveal answer → Part of the small intestine54 DownReveal answer → English band formed in 1984 by Mick Jones after the Clash broke up165 DownReveal answer → Succeed in getting runs singly55 DownReveal answer → Sporting achievement85 DownReveal answer → Biddable86 DownReveal answer → Spanish nobleman concealed a large repair76 DownReveal answer → British pop group whose hit singles include Living Next Door to Alice66 DownReveal answer → Internal regulator's lad checking D-Notice?97 DownReveal answer → First female artist to have two singles and two albums in the UK top five simultaneously57 DownReveal answer → See 13 Across178 DownReveal answer → American singer born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in 1926118 DownReveal answer → Russian river that flows through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts69 DownReveal answer → Messenger810 DownReveal answer → American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and actress who was classically trained on the harp in her youth1210 DownReveal answer → The largest moon in our solar system811 DownReveal answer → Greek dish811 DownReveal answer → Peter ___, English snooker player who was World Champion in 2002513 DownReveal answer → Poor emaciated in compound914 DownReveal answer → Accelerate714 DownReveal answer → Away from West for digital process?315 DownReveal answer → Stiff516 DownReveal answer → Young male horse417 DownReveal answer → Near enough furious about nationalist's introduction718 DownReveal answer → Repose in old French art for Greek matricide719 DownReveal answer → Unit of weight319 DownReveal answer → German woman holding seance regularly for US poet720 DownReveal answer → Region of New Zealand, site of the country's first university521 DownReveal answer → No explosive energy in runner721 DownReveal answer → Device consisting of a wheel or disc spinning rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction922 DownReveal answer → Something added to letters in sacks sent north523 DownReveal answer → Actor who played the title role in the 1968 film Inspector Clouseau924 DownReveal answer → Drop a little lower keeping length in mind525 DownReveal answer → Controversial 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci film starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider1626 DownReveal answer → 1960 Sam Cooke single that was a top ten hit in both the US and the UK927 DownReveal answer → The largest city in North Carolina928 DownReveal answer → The world's longest river432 DownReveal answer → 1963 number one single by The Dave Clark Five1133 DownReveal answer → American actor who won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood1235 DownReveal answer → Young wizard created by J K Rowling1138 DownReveal answer → The lean end of a neck of veal or mutton539 DownReveal answer → Means by which animals escape the notice of predators, including cryptic and apatetic coloration1043 DownReveal answer → Type of two-humped camel originally from an area of north Afghanistan844 DownReveal answer → The gregarious Old World passerine songbird Sturnus vulgaris846 DownReveal answer → See 331147 DownReveal answer → Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface649 DownReveal answer → Alternative name for Charles de Gaulle Airport651 DownReveal answer → First name of the actress who was sister to John and Lionel Barrymore553 DownReveal answer → Actress who played Thelma in the film Thelma & Louise1054 DownReveal answer →

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