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The Independent Crossword February 17 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 62 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword February 17 2026 answers. The Tuesday puzzle has 62 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Charged atomION3Across1 Fish died after net unfortunately snarledENTANGLED9Across1 Breathed wearilySIGHED6Across3 Prepares to fire helmsman, from the sound of itCOCKS5Across6 Outer garmentCOAT4Across7 AgonyANGUISH7Across8 The last couple leaving servitude arranged benefitsVIRTUES7Across9 Transport hubBUSSTATION10Across9 Ban flipping setter then take overEMBARGO7Across10 FondleCARESS6Across11 Optimistically expecting hard work and energyHOPE4Across11 Burst of energy? Possibly, shrugs au pair evenlySUGARRUSH9Across12 FalsenessDECEIT6Across13 One with authority to kill legally inserting IVEXECUTIVE9Across15 AstoundingSTUPENDOUS10Across15 It's a small thing to put on the song Cockney chap's forgottenTHONG5Across18 InquisitiveCURIOUS7Across19 RegularEVEN4Across20 Trust answer entertained by suitable husbandFAITH5Across21 Indented areaRECESS6Across21 Indicate assentNOD3Across22 Producer of music performed badly injured, missing noteDIDJERIDU9Across23 Stupidly still pays for sequences of numbersPLAYLISTS9Across25 Duck or ducks from SloveniaLOVE4Across28 Working at home before entering officeINGOING7Across31 Regularly ignored - I'm sorry - once cool African countryMOROCCO7Across33 Avoiding time, dread what might follow trialERROR5Across34 Practise economy, extremely likely without effectUSELESSLY9Across35

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Resentment of another Nobel Venezuelan originally receivedENVY4Down1 Golf clubIRON4Down1 What's covered by casual shirt, approximatelyTORSO5Down2 DistinguishedNOTABLE7Down2 What you hope to see through sunglasses? Water in Cannes, having just arrived thereNOUVEAU7Down3 Able to seeSIGHTED7Down3 Case of lascivious American with Epstein essentially filling cravingsLUSTS5Down4 Grain for grindingGRIST5Down4 Outstanding leader of Denmark uplifting continental blocDUE3Down5 African countryETHIOPIA8Down5 Jazz fan bored by nude clubCABARET7Down6 Track circuitsLAPS4Down6 Cuba on top of uprising from briefly united islandCORFU5Down7 Disinclination to move hotel supporting small fortuneSLOTH5Down8 Imitative work of artPASTICHE8Down10 CurvySINUOUS7Down12 Desire to acquire Greenland without at first notifying loyal allied nationsGREED5Down13 Muscle complaintBEEF4Down14 WC water tankCISTERN7Down14 RidPURGE5Down16 Priest restricted by piles coming backELI3Down16 ExpelOUST4Down17 River plants etc. go missingINDUS5Down17 Heavy metalLEAD4Down18 Band bird missing its wingsOBI3Down19 Overindulgence? Belly filled with large superfluity in the end underlying weight?GLUT4Down20 Hurry to contain hostile Right with increasing reliefHILLIER7Down22 Add to general unravellingENLARGE7Down24 Assuming high opinion of own self, exerted leverage in speechPRIDE5Down25 Perhaps Yellowstone employee top Republican axed might be upset?ANGER5Down26 Where thousands died a few pocketing millionsSOMME5Down27 Against US immigration agents' singular failingsVICES5Down29 See 20GLUT4Down30 Emptied firearm and its contents thus missing antelopeGNU3Down32

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.