The Independent Crossword September 21 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 116 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 116 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 21 2024. 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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Is aware of51 AcrossReveal answer → One bites firm end of fig31 AcrossReveal answer → Old ripe bananas with decent chopped nuts getting tasted113 AcrossReveal answer → Outlawed64 AcrossReveal answer → Domestic item127 AcrossReveal answer → Earrings59 AcrossReveal answer → Stores delivering Russian cars79 AcrossReveal answer → The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley59 AcrossReveal answer → Leave some lettuce on? No710 AcrossReveal answer → Distinguished710 AcrossReveal answer → The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowers1510 AcrossReveal answer → Hurry611 AcrossReveal answer → Dish made by male artists?511 AcrossReveal answer → Broken by bread, ultimately toaster fails special checks912 AcrossReveal answer → Selected613 AcrossReveal answer → Trucks by which spaghetti's eaten?913 AcrossReveal answer → The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves614 AcrossReveal answer → 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius's work of the same name915 AcrossReveal answer → Side of letter I forgot to write516 AcrossReveal answer → Theoretically716 AcrossReveal answer → A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years616 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni with a soundtrack featuring Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead1417 AcrossReveal answer → American guy crosses river and leaves518 AcrossReveal answer → Religion518 AcrossReveal answer → Backbone1219 AcrossReveal answer → Spooner's work with butter brand reveals a craft of sorts920 AcrossReveal answer → A series of three related works720 AcrossReveal answer → Claim620 AcrossReveal answer → Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself when Achilles' armour was given to Odysseus421 AcrossReveal answer → Topic521 AcrossReveal answer → Former volunteers retired in California, chasing a whiff of flowers?922 AcrossReveal answer → Witold ___, Polish composer and conductor whose works include the orchestral song-cycle Chantefleurs et chantefables1122 AcrossReveal answer → Horse that won the 1953 Derby523 AcrossReveal answer → Junk that is put on potato in Scotland524 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese cartoon films of which Spirited Away is the highest-grossing example525 AcrossReveal answer → The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands926 AcrossReveal answer → Drink cold water before date, excitedly726 AcrossReveal answer → Clown enthusiast that mimics a horse727 AcrossReveal answer → Passages coated with brown, sticky stuff beginning to dry, becoming stuck-up1128 AcrossReveal answer → Fish from Marillion's penultimate album's out329 AcrossReveal answer → Rover model in which Andy Rouse won the 1984 British Saloon Car Championship729 AcrossReveal answer → A best-selling 1974 novel by Len Deighton832 AcrossReveal answer → Old English coin worth five shillings534 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the Greek classical hero Hercules835 AcrossReveal answer → Norman hero of the First Crusade who played a prominent part in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099736 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Erich Segal published on Valentine's Day in 1970937 AcrossReveal answer → See 31 Down1138 AcrossReveal answer → Actress sister of Sinéad and Sorcha Cusack542 AcrossReveal answer → Large body of fresh water in Perth and Kinross at whose eastern end the River Tummel begins1144 AcrossReveal answer → A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru447 AcrossReveal answer → 2015 film featuring Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond748 AcrossReveal answer → 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set during the summer of 19221450 AcrossReveal answer → Giorgio ___, Italian fashion designer who studied medicine at the University of Milan for three years651 AcrossReveal answer → Auguste ___, French chef at London's Savoy Hotel in the last decade of the 19th century952 AcrossReveal answer → 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway that is a semi-autobiography of Charles Bukowski654 AcrossReveal answer → Federal subject of Russia whose capital is Grozny1556 AcrossReveal answer → Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton557 AcrossReveal answer →

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Heating stoked coal on one fire almost turning cold91 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Baku101 DownReveal answer → Honour101 DownReveal answer → Sauce made from fish and ... um ... that's it52 DownReveal answer → Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammar42 DownReveal answer → Scented72 DownReveal answer → Endless roulade, initially eaten in a frenzy, then left73 DownReveal answer → Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes93 DownReveal answer → Secret agents53 DownReveal answer → Show-off that's more 'sophisticated' rejecting last bit of sandwich54 DownReveal answer → Christian festival celebrated on November 1124 DownReveal answer → Larger64 DownReveal answer → Stone implement75 DownReveal answer → Judges drunk by about 1:50 in Reading95 DownReveal answer → See 39185 DownReveal answer → See 5586 DownReveal answer → Weird56 DownReveal answer → The last ice-cream portion is bigger, potentially76 DownReveal answer → Is it used to eat Chinese pork? Yes97 DownReveal answer → King of England whose mother was Mary, Queen of Scots67 DownReveal answer → Australian city, capital of New South Wales68 DownReveal answer → Wiltshire landmark108 DownReveal answer → Mess up the topping for summer puddings58 DownReveal answer → Writer of histories and annals of the Roman Empire711 DownReveal answer → Doc Brown's dog in the Back to the Future films812 DownReveal answer → Stretch712 DownReveal answer → The state capital of Nebraska713 DownReveal answer → Have a go at and complain - it's a British tradition914 DownReveal answer → Fit714 DownReveal answer → The natural order of things in Iceland?915 DownReveal answer → Young salmon615 DownReveal answer → Part of the eye517 DownReveal answer → Given too much seafood? Finally, the diet is abandoned!917 DownReveal answer → Be buoyant518 DownReveal answer → British art rock band whose debut single was Virginia Plain918 DownReveal answer → Where one might eat catch taken in by high tide719 DownReveal answer → 1981 top ten single by Toyah1319 DownReveal answer → Soldier on LSD that works to achieve neutrality721 DownReveal answer → One-litre bar bottles produced522 DownReveal answer → The ___, private hospital in Roehampton best known for treating celebrities for addiction623 DownReveal answer → Vanilla Ice samples guitar parts523 DownReveal answer → Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is Laon524 DownReveal answer → Weight I put on top of cement mixer525 DownReveal answer → City on the coast of S China that was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999527 DownReveal answer → George ___, American actor best known for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers528 DownReveal answer → Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine930 DownReveal answer → Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons1131 DownReveal answer → Small edible marine decapod crustacean with a long tail and two pairs of pincers533 DownReveal answer → Peninsula containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia1235 DownReveal answer → The amphibious Australian egg-laying mammal Ornithorhynchus anatinus1839 DownReveal answer → 1984 David Bowie top ten hit, loosely inspired by Eddie Cochran840 DownReveal answer → Nontechnical name for the femur941 DownReveal answer → A sound recording disc used for demonstration or other short-term purposes743 DownReveal answer → Dead skin, especially that round the base of a fingernail or toenail745 DownReveal answer → Real first name of "Shaggy" in the Scooby-Doo cartoons846 DownReveal answer → Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea648 DownReveal answer → Chinese system of exercise and self-defence, using balance and co-ordination with minimum effort649 DownReveal answer → Points value of the brown ball in snooker453 DownReveal answer → 1998 film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that spawned two sequels855 DownReveal answer →

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