The Independent Crossword January 10 2026 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 10 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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Be aware of41 AcrossReveal answer → Wail43 AcrossReveal answer → Now and then127 AcrossReveal answer → Worthless matter58 AcrossReveal answer → American agent managed to turn around company59 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the TV series The Good Life139 AcrossReveal answer → Domestic appliance79 AcrossReveal answer → City wall with banana on?910 AcrossReveal answer → Early poem's second half - reminiscent of Don Juan? - moving boyfriend's heart911 AcrossReveal answer → Bring about611 AcrossReveal answer → 1964 serial composition that is Milton Babbitt’s best-known work812 AcrossReveal answer → Secretary accompanying a Scotsman?512 AcrossReveal answer → Type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room813 AcrossReveal answer → A Scot renovated cafe513 AcrossReveal answer → Mineral used in building613 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon Sumner514 AcrossReveal answer → Song combined with Little Drummer Boy and recorded in 1977 for Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as a duet with David Bowie1215 AcrossReveal answer → Vacated county hospital disposing of nickel and aluminium in rings815 AcrossReveal answer → Central character in Henry Fielding's fourth and final novel, published in 17511116 AcrossReveal answer → Dependable716 AcrossReveal answer → Beautiful handwriting considered as an art1118 AcrossReveal answer → Group of insects518 AcrossReveal answer → Scotsman's small ornament from ice-skating arena kept by corporation718 AcrossReveal answer → Cocktail made by short attractive woman in Italy719 AcrossReveal answer → Profitable1219 AcrossReveal answer → Eyelid inflammation420 AcrossReveal answer → Bowed, without cap on, a holy man turns and prays820 AcrossReveal answer → Online search engine and accommodation booking website founded in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2005720 AcrossReveal answer → Artist with endless resources and time521 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of heredity421 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh Benedictine monk created by Edith Pargeter, under the name Ellis Peters, in a series of historical murder mysteries721 AcrossReveal answer → A bivalve mollusc such as the shipworm623 AcrossReveal answer → Connect with Baudrillard's article about computers523 AcrossReveal answer → Holding tight, enter Tesla with Bluebird alongside925 AcrossReveal answer → Czech-born tennis player who was US Open champion 1985-87926 AcrossReveal answer → Gloria Gaynor hit originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song Substitute1227 AcrossReveal answer → Phil ___, American singer best known for his protest song I Ain't Marching Anymore428 AcrossReveal answer → Quote from Black Beauty - "Beauty's beginning to lead our close associate"928 AcrossReveal answer → Scotsman given drugs becomes gentler529 AcrossReveal answer → Comic actor who starred alongside Ade Edmondson in the TV series The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap and Bottom931 AcrossReveal answer → Édouard ___, French composer whose best-known piece is Symphonie espagnole433 AcrossReveal answer → Much-recorded popular song, based on the 1945 French song Les feuilles mortes, for which Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 19471236 AcrossReveal answer → 1975 album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers with Captain Beefheart937 AcrossReveal answer → The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable640 AcrossReveal answer → 1897 novel by August Strindberg741 AcrossReveal answer → The son of Banquo in Shakespeare's play Macbeth742 AcrossReveal answer → A Roman Catholic service in which the congregation is blessed with the sacrament1145 AcrossReveal answer → English actor who played Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1146 AcrossReveal answer → 1994 film that was the directorial debut of Ben Stiller1248 AcrossReveal answer → A note with the time value of half a semibreve550 AcrossReveal answer → See 13851 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Belgium853 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh writer, dramatist and actor best known for the 1938 semi-autobiographical play The Corn Is Green1354 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hotel near Morecambe where one's depressed and tense, with yen for central London?91 DownReveal answer → The capital of the Independent State of Samoa41 DownReveal answer → Start of a football match71 DownReveal answer → A Scotsman who lives in Dubai?42 DownReveal answer → Former country whose name was changed from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1929102 DownReveal answer → Fertile area in a desert52 DownReveal answer → Sony mobile carried by highly-strung chauffeur who's always interfering103 DownReveal answer → Body of water located in Western Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula113 DownReveal answer → Courage73 DownReveal answer → Dance54 DownReveal answer → British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp54 DownReveal answer → Strong start to Howard's wedding vows?44 DownReveal answer → Liking85 DownReveal answer → Keep, say, eight thousand building blocks in the OXO Tower?105 DownReveal answer → Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger125 DownReveal answer → 1988 film starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin116 DownReveal answer → "North-eastern European people" - originally what a Scotsman called a Swede?46 DownReveal answer → Explode56 DownReveal answer → Painting by Leonardo da Vinci also called La Gioconda87 DownReveal answer → A lawyer rattling a tin pot for change107 DownReveal answer → 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese Falcon128 DownReveal answer → Energy drink in France with unknown mineral58 DownReveal answer → Keep in mind810 DownReveal answer → The smaller and outermost of Mars' two natural satellites610 DownReveal answer → 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten911 DownReveal answer → A Spanish dish made from rice, shellfish, chicken and vegetables612 DownReveal answer → Eat712 DownReveal answer → Coastal resort area714 DownReveal answer → Methodical setter in Cologne provided with one cruciverbalist's tip1014 DownReveal answer → Politician attending debauched event with fellow countryman1015 DownReveal answer → Main515 DownReveal answer → Sick and twisted Athenian character in a twisted sex cult1016 DownReveal answer → Likely to play with equipment around 10?917 DownReveal answer → Queen of England from 1553 to 1558517 DownReveal answer → Representative517 DownReveal answer → Amount wagered518 DownReveal answer → The fourth album by Abba, featuring the hits Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Money, Money, Money719 DownReveal answer → Stewed meat and vegetables served in a thick white sauce922 DownReveal answer → Scotsman's flowers for another Scotsman522 DownReveal answer → A device allowing a swimmer to breathe while face down on the surface of the water724 DownReveal answer → Repeat base expression of Scotsman dropping ball424 DownReveal answer → John ___, British writer best known for his bawdy novel Fanny Hill725 DownReveal answer → Bittersweet426 DownReveal answer → Theories expressed through one's manuscript427 DownReveal answer → 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover1229 DownReveal answer → English band who had hits with Cool for Cats and Up the Junction730 DownReveal answer → Best Director Oscar-winner for Dances with Wolves1232 DownReveal answer → Sam Cooke song that gave Craig Douglas his only Number 1 single1134 DownReveal answer → A factory that produces sheet metal1135 DownReveal answer → Superhero alter ego of schoolboy Eric Wimp in British comic books937 DownReveal answer → Actress whose films include Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill1038 DownReveal answer → Popular houseplant with stiff lancelike leaves539 DownReveal answer → George ___, English painter noted for his pictures of horses643 DownReveal answer → Okra as used in Indian cooking644 DownReveal answer → Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old Testament547 DownReveal answer → See 7849 DownReveal answer → First name of Ingrid Bergman's character in the film Casablanca452 DownReveal answer →

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