The Independent Crossword Answers December 14, 2024

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Below are The Independent Cryptic December 14, 2024 Crossword Answers. We have changed the way we posting answers and solutions for clues; instead of opening them in a new page we are revealing answers and solutions in the same page. This is the simplest way for you to find the answers. As you see in the left side are crossword clues and in the right side are crossword answers.

Across

One wearing a large decorative item PEARL
Story mother noted down about a king and queen NARRATIVE
Route north through Spain and Germany for hitchhiker? PASSENGER
Church dignitaries and clergy members renouncing company DEANS
Balls bowled at pens close to farmhouse to get pig out OVEREAT
Ariel, languishing underwater at first, breaks free and blooms RUELLIA
Certain pictures – Dune, Rocky, and, finally, Kes NUDES
Interested in taking good shots? You may want to get this dolly AUNTSALLY
Fellow politician backed Number Ten, exercising constituent COMPONENT
Included among possessions – a bottle-opener, a wooden shoe SABOT
Stiff examination of gold by Tim’s sister? AUTOPSY
Hot, one-dimensional bores wear distressed leather RAWHIDE
Spielberg’s West Side Story is hackneyed STALE
Disney film capturing hearts with animated tale that can be bittersweet CHOCOLATE
Tapes of actors wasting time on sofas, taking 8 CASSETTES
Determined boy conceals alien SETON

Down

Put my new food in buckets? POPCORN
City boss lifting a Hoover? AMSTERDAM
Pork pie supported by, say, upstanding lord LIEGE
Awful vision of mounted crusader getting beheaded NIGHTMARE
In Predator, are rebels more difficult to find? RARER
Places he leaves hats? ADDRESSES
One regularly dispatching letters – nearly 50 altogether INALL
See good woman overcome by simple pleasure ECSTASY
One captivated by cow (mingling with sheep) that’s the best in field SHOWPIECE
Disreputable – no, dreadful – suitor stuck with ring NOTORIOUS
Large group of countries screening Universal Soldier and Grease? LUBRICANT
Children perhaps in charge – could this be Lord of the Flies? CLASSIC
James Bond character leaves remote-control device within that place THEREIN
Rushes from Snatch shown before the end of Cannes TEARS
Rising river covering top half of chap’s boat YACHT
Hong Kong film-maker and director with small golf clubs WOODS