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The Independent Crossword February 3 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for February 3 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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Perhaps young ladies returning diamonds like waste from coal mine?71 AcrossReveal answer → Female deer31 AcrossReveal answer → Floating marker43 AcrossReveal answer → Old-fashioned craft which might help you shape hedges75 AcrossReveal answer → Fungal infection127 AcrossReveal answer → Fertile area in a desert59 AcrossReveal answer → Treacherous type regularly wanting in on correspondence59 AcrossReveal answer → Sober sailors can essentially get any number a little tipsy910 AcrossReveal answer → Progressive710 AcrossReveal answer → Old lady's emotional, missing ace showing dominance911 AcrossReveal answer → Presage611 AcrossReveal answer → Church event's cost covering base for font412 AcrossReveal answer → Force613 AcrossReveal answer → Invigorated once more, enter 'DEJA VU' in a puzzle?1114 AcrossReveal answer → Authorise716 AcrossReveal answer → Tea cake518 AcrossReveal answer → Posh bandmate reportedly produced sugary stuff1118 AcrossReveal answer → However1219 AcrossReveal answer → A smaller amount420 AcrossReveal answer → Marine food fish321 AcrossReveal answer → You shouldn't have to bedeck outsiders in off-the-peg garment421 AcrossReveal answer → Groundhog Day shown in attempt to endear cast922 AcrossReveal answer → Riot at art nouveau restaurant925 AcrossReveal answer → Move with beat ... it takes two526 AcrossReveal answer → Attractive person with little quirk penned one third of a sestet?727 AcrossReveal answer → On vacation, drenched awnings turned European street most miserable728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Save seafood that's cold, not hot61 DownReveal answer → Attire51 DownReveal answer → Come out62 DownReveal answer → Taking part in dry run for show62 DownReveal answer → Wild ox73 DownReveal answer → Extremely grave old writer cracks systems for calculating lengths103 DownReveal answer → Bashful, perhaps, having served up some half-raw dinners54 DownReveal answer → Sea air (Informal)54 DownReveal answer → Church saint privy to wit - no point complaining about it95 DownReveal answer → Narrow in outlook95 DownReveal answer → Today's crossword setter offers the same again46 DownReveal answer → Accompanying drink66 DownReveal answer → Things on sleigh possibly dispatched in advance by one of the poles87 DownReveal answer → Alpine plant98 DownReveal answer → Retired padre's losing head about barely revised versions88 DownReveal answer → Female big cat712 DownReveal answer → Philistine in uniform shortly denudes ground home to kitty1013 DownReveal answer → Correct614 DownReveal answer → Feverish615 DownReveal answer → Apple turnover used to feed this fussy person915 DownReveal answer → It cracks gemstone finally burnished on edge816 DownReveal answer → A horse's boxing farmyard animal's ears and arse?817 DownReveal answer → Bit517 DownReveal answer → Rapidity518 DownReveal answer → Fruit tart contains trace of nuts — Methuselah ultimately leaves it619 DownReveal answer → Be frugal with every last bit of useable stock made available620 DownReveal answer → Baked loaves after scrapping starter of Easter eggs?523 DownReveal answer → Where sewer keeps things in perpetuity424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Tuesday, February 3, 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.