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The Independent Crossword February 12 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for February 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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Louse egg31 AcrossReveal answer → In what place?53 AcrossReveal answer → Underwater missile78 AcrossReveal answer → Rustic59 AcrossReveal answer → Put steps outside at home with men planning99 AcrossReveal answer → Fire remains510 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish John stops Pilot Officer in quiet passage510 AcrossReveal answer → Good and bad to host initially riotous quiz511 AcrossReveal answer → Claim711 AcrossReveal answer → Does this foresee terrible cost, recession and a war?1712 AcrossReveal answer → Argument1112 AcrossReveal answer → Two for one for example in Bury713 AcrossReveal answer → Who might steal eggs — and slowly cook them?714 AcrossReveal answer → Ascetic at last departing for Ruhr location516 AcrossReveal answer → Fine wool fabric716 AcrossReveal answer → Raise aloft518 AcrossReveal answer → Study Hesiod's conclusion in French318 AcrossReveal answer → One donning Great King's spun garment519 AcrossReveal answer → Name520 AcrossReveal answer → Abate721 AcrossReveal answer → Old Greek university plugging dissertations721 AcrossReveal answer → Vast crowd522 AcrossReveal answer → Cosmonaut, wildly enthusiastic, to call shortly722 AcrossReveal answer → Metal323 AcrossReveal answer → Romanian dictator stops hoarding uranium and copper924 AcrossReveal answer → See 1 down1326 AcrossReveal answer → Be patronising towards women denied sons527 AcrossReveal answer → Book in Spanish English twice revised928 AcrossReveal answer →

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Arctic whale71 DownReveal answer → Greeting from one again and again denied preferment?131 DownReveal answer → Lock of hair52 DownReveal answer → Person misusing horse? Put on an extra court62 DownReveal answer → Exercise session73 DownReveal answer → Doctor Galen with niece: not Grace?103 DownReveal answer → Person with assured belief Arkwright heard?64 DownReveal answer → Weird54 DownReveal answer → Easy opportunity to bag stray reptile85 DownReveal answer → Sign up65 DownReveal answer → Kitty after second little bit46 DownReveal answer → Sicilian volcano46 DownReveal answer → Revolutionary husband taking place in battle87 DownReveal answer → Music format117 DownReveal answer → Exhibitionist regrets surgery after lift68 DownReveal answer → Immoderate713 DownReveal answer → Belief714 DownReveal answer → Exchange615 DownReveal answer → Anger on stage in a cast1015 DownReveal answer → See 12 across1717 DownReveal answer → Helicopter blade517 DownReveal answer → Nun's costume518 DownReveal answer → Terrible blow where driest winds circling it818 DownReveal answer → Abound (in)419 DownReveal answer → Cut down knight in cold Danish city820 DownReveal answer → Watch insect here shedding wings621 DownReveal answer → Sinister Parisian displaying 3622 DownReveal answer → Bad hat seen in opera (Scala)623 DownReveal answer → Fourth man group hated at first425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, February 12, 2026. 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.