The Independent Crossword September 28 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 116 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 116 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 28 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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Shout of disapproval34 AcrossReveal answer → Defeat45 AcrossReveal answer → Enfold46 AcrossReveal answer → Wrap we hasten to cook87 AcrossReveal answer → Ways to package doughnut affecting quality68 AcrossReveal answer → 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang109 AcrossReveal answer → Strife79 AcrossReveal answer → Pale purple510 AcrossReveal answer → Singer and actor who married Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow1211 AcrossReveal answer → Projection of cartilage in the neck1011 AcrossReveal answer → Current time to retire for Macron or possible White House resident?511 AcrossReveal answer → Wanting run, Victor Borge's heading past camper912 AcrossReveal answer → Either a lark or a gull in springtime?913 AcrossReveal answer → BBC TV drama series that ran from 1971 to 19801313 AcrossReveal answer → Filmed audition1014 AcrossReveal answer → Team given one of Pep's tips - be brave!514 AcrossReveal answer → Harold ___, 1924 Olympic 100m champion depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire814 AcrossReveal answer → 1999 American teen romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew2215 AcrossReveal answer → Act half-heartedly boxing fighter, old one like Achilles?715 AcrossReveal answer → Mountain ash518 AcrossReveal answer → Group defending Alaba's header, with cheers from Barcelona maybe718 AcrossReveal answer → Experience719 AcrossReveal answer → 'The Explosive Blonde' in the first of 10 films starring Ann Sothern, based on the 1935 novel Dark Dame by Wilson Collison619 AcrossReveal answer → AA member, say, I installed in cooler room519 AcrossReveal answer → English county that was abolished in 1996420 AcrossReveal answer → Man in the street knocked back drink with melting ice, drinking litres behind bar920 AcrossReveal answer → Circular tent420 AcrossReveal answer → A young unfledged pigeon521 AcrossReveal answer → Rotary file421 AcrossReveal answer → Young goat322 AcrossReveal answer → What lovers do in luxury car is tops923 AcrossReveal answer → Plant from which opium is obtained523 AcrossReveal answer → Ethan's coat put on back-to-front?525 AcrossReveal answer → A song I composed? Miss this for musical entertainment626 AcrossReveal answer → Hero-worshipper behind Obama, initially, or Bush827 AcrossReveal answer → Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik527 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch violinist and conductor noted for his January 1 concerts with the Johann Strauss Orchestra829 AcrossReveal answer → 1980 hit single by Roxy Music, subtitled There's a Band Playing On the Radio630 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Reykjavik731 AcrossReveal answer → Poet and playwright whose works include The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral734 AcrossReveal answer → England Men's Test cricket captain from 2017 to 2022736 AcrossReveal answer → Commercial and industrial city in northwestern Germany with a major port on the River Weser638 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of plants that includes the spurges and poinsettia939 AcrossReveal answer → 1984 musical, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson542 AcrossReveal answer → The former English name for the Roman consul, orator and writer Cicero544 AcrossReveal answer → American hickory tree with edible nuts545 AcrossReveal answer → A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru446 AcrossReveal answer → 1974 David Essex hit single that was his only US chart success647 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Bangui2251 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889854 AcrossReveal answer → Colourless corrosive liquid whose formula is H2SO41356 AcrossReveal answer → Book of the Old Testament traditionally ascribed to the prophet Jeremiah1260 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Wellington1061 AcrossReveal answer →

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County known as "The Garden of England"41 DownReveal answer → Island nation adopting incredibly wise candidate for high office141 DownReveal answer → Web-footed bird51 DownReveal answer → Department of France whose capital is Mezieres82 DownReveal answer → Provider, wasting energy once, recycles paper the wrong way62 DownReveal answer → Haphazard62 DownReveal answer → Slovenian town that hosted the World Rowing Championships for the fourth time in 201143 DownReveal answer → Like a lazy, indolent slacker, say, given no slack over branch of philosophy103 DownReveal answer → Victory73 DownReveal answer → American sports channel owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications44 DownReveal answer → Hack probing new line-up of hot rock group64 DownReveal answer → Dwell (Archaic)44 DownReveal answer → Play by Victoria Wood first performed in 197865 DownReveal answer → Hail Roman supporting Republican Party45 DownReveal answer → Vegetables105 DownReveal answer → Ukrainian figure skater who was the 1994 Olympic ladies Champion116 DownReveal answer → Flying metal planes flying around without personnel86 DownReveal answer → Like better67 DownReveal answer → Character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume and pointed hat77 DownReveal answer → Philistine city-state that was home to Goliath48 DownReveal answer → Senior diplomat108 DownReveal answer → Discern extremely rare jackets using a single pin in retail area149 DownReveal answer → Spanish in Libya's capital swan around outside together610 DownReveal answer → An alloy of copper and zinc used as imitation gold910 DownReveal answer → A feather or plastic attachment fitted to a dart to give it stability in the air611 DownReveal answer → Communications code word for the letter R512 DownReveal answer → Into error612 DownReveal answer → Drawings etc713 DownReveal answer → One remarkably aged wine in this1014 DownReveal answer → 1996 Suede song that is their biggest selling single515 DownReveal answer → Zodiac sign615 DownReveal answer → Means to be heard, entertaining earl with improbable irony, perhaps816 DownReveal answer → Penniless (Informal)516 DownReveal answer → A spiral-horned African antelope516 DownReveal answer → The distinctive fleshy wattle that hangs from the top of the beak of the male turkey517 DownReveal answer → Make low dive after emptying plane, banking roughly617 DownReveal answer → Clasp417 DownReveal answer → The main vocalist and songwriter of Radiohead918 DownReveal answer → East African runner maintaining small store on a farm621 DownReveal answer → Would-be fancy car filled by Bobby622 DownReveal answer → The capital of Ecuador522 DownReveal answer → Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens524 DownReveal answer → Oscar slicing bean for a fresh starter424 DownReveal answer → British fashion retailer founded by Tom Singh in Taunton in 1969725 DownReveal answer → The extinct flightless bird Raphus cucullatus426 DownReveal answer → 1975 horror fiction novel by Stephen King, originally entitled Second Coming928 DownReveal answer → Island on which Prince Philip was born532 DownReveal answer → 1880 novel by Émile Zola, the ninth instalment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series433 DownReveal answer → A dark reddish-brown pigment obtained from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish535 DownReveal answer → French tennis player who was nicknamed "the Crocodile"1137 DownReveal answer → West African republic whose capital is Porto Novo540 DownReveal answer → A communal meal in the early Christian church commemorating the Last Supper541 DownReveal answer → Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes942 DownReveal answer → A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium543 DownReveal answer → The most successful Chilean football club, based in Macul, Santiago848 DownReveal answer → Sobriquet of Erik Lehnsherr, played by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in the X-Men film series749 DownReveal answer → Comic character, created and performed by Spike Milligan in The Goon Show650 DownReveal answer → Genus of shrubs that includes the heaths and some heathers552 DownReveal answer → Port in Russia, on the River Don, 30 miles from the Sea of Azov653 DownReveal answer → River on which Middlesbrough stands455 DownReveal answer → First name of the protagonist of the animated TV series King of the Hill457 DownReveal answer → Arthur ___, the first manager to lead Tottenham Hotspur to the First Division Championship title458 DownReveal answer → Schoolgirl who won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with All Kinds of Everything459 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, September 28, 2024. 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.