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The Independent Crossword January 10 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 10 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 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#
Be aware ofKNOW4Across1 WailBAWL4Across3 Now and thenOCCASIONALLY12Across7 Worthless matterDROSS5Across8 American agent managed to turn around companyNARCO5Across9 Actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the TV series The Good LifePAULEDDINGTON13Across9 Domestic applianceFREEZER7Across9 City wall with banana on?ROTTERDAM9Across10 Early poem's second half - reminiscent of Don Juan? - moving boyfriend's heartEMBRYONIC9Across11 Bring aboutEFFECT6Across11 1964 serial composition that is Milton Babbitt’s best-known workPHILOMEL8Across12 Secretary accompanying a Scotsman?PAPER5Across12 Type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a roomDADORAIL8Across13 A Scot renovated cafeCOSTA5Across13 Mineral used in buildingGYPSUM6Across13 Stage name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon SumnerSTING5Across14 Song combined with Little Drummer Boy and recorded in 1977 for Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as a duet with David BowiePEACEONEARTH12Across15 Vacated county hospital disposing of nickel and aluminium in ringsCYCLICAL8Across15 Central character in Henry Fielding's fourth and final novel, published in 1751AMELIABOOTH11Across16 DependableSTAUNCH7Across16 Beautiful handwriting considered as an artCALLIGRAPHY11Across18 Group of insectsSWARM5Across18 Scotsman's small ornament from ice-skating arena kept by corporationTRINKUM7Across18 Cocktail made by short attractive woman in ItalyBELLINI7Across19 ProfitableREMUNERATIVE12Across19 Eyelid inflammationSTYE4Across20 Bowed, without cap on, a holy man turns and praysENTREATS8Across20 Online search engine and accommodation booking website founded in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2005TRIVAGO7Across20 Artist with endless resources and timeMONET5Across21 Unit of heredityGENE4Across21 Welsh Benedictine monk created by Edith Pargeter, under the name Ellis Peters, in a series of historical murder mysteriesCADFAEL7Across21 A bivalve mollusc such as the shipwormTEREDO6Across23 Connect with Baudrillard's article about computersUNITE5Across23 Holding tight, enter Tesla with Bluebird alongsideRETENTION9Across25 Czech-born tennis player who was US Open champion 1985-87IVANLENDL9Across26 Gloria Gaynor hit originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song SubstituteIWILLSURVIVE12Across27 Phil ___, American singer best known for his protest song I Ain't Marching AnymoreOCHS4Across28 Quote from Black Beauty - "Beauty's beginning to lead our close associate"NEIGHBOUR9Across28 Scotsman given drugs becomes gentlerTAMES5Across29 Comic actor who starred alongside Ade Edmondson in the TV series The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap and BottomRIKMAYALL9Across31 Édouard ___, French composer whose best-known piece is Symphonie espagnoleLALO4Across33 Much-recorded popular song, based on the 1945 French song Les feuilles mortes, for which Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947AUTUMNLEAVES12Across36 1975 album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers with Captain BeefheartBONGOFURY9Across37 The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetableCELERY6Across40 1897 novel by August StrindbergINFERNO7Across41 The son of Banquo in Shakespeare's play MacbethFLEANCE7Across42 A Roman Catholic service in which the congregation is blessed with the sacramentBENEDICTION11Across45 English actor who played Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire SlayerANTHONYHEAD11Across46 1994 film that was the directorial debut of Ben StillerREALITYBITES12Across48 A note with the time value of half a semibreveMINIM5Across50 See 13DADORAIL8Across51 The capital of BelgiumBRUSSELS8Across53 Welsh writer, dramatist and actor best known for the 1938 semi-autobiographical play The Corn Is GreenEMLYNWILLIAMS13Across54

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Hotel near Morecambe where one's depressed and tense, with yen for central London?INNERCITY9Down1 The capital of the Independent State of SamoaAPIA4Down1 Start of a football matchKICKOFF7Down1 A Scotsman who lives in Dubai?ARAB4Down2 Former country whose name was changed from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1929YUGOSLAVIA10Down2 Fertile area in a desertOASIS5Down2 Sony mobile carried by highly-strung chauffeur who's always interferingNOSYPARKER10Down3 Body of water located in Western Asia between Iran and the Arabian PeninsulaPERSIANGULF11Down3 CourageBRAVERY7Down3 DanceWALTZ5Down4 British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and StompSTEPS5Down4 Strong start to Howard's wedding vows?IRON4Down4 LikingFONDNESS8Down5 Keep, say, eight thousand building blocks in the OXO Tower?STOCKCUBES10Down5 Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian MessengerANNAKARENINA12Down5 1988 film starring Robert De Niro and Charles GrodinMIDNIGHTRUN11Down6 "North-eastern European people" - originally what a Scotsman called a Swede?NEEP4Down6 ExplodeGOOFF5Down6 Painting by Leonardo da Vinci also called La GiocondaMONALISA8Down7 A lawyer rattling a tin pot for changeADAPTATION10Down7 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese FalconBEATTHEDEVIL12Down8 Energy drink in France with unknown mineralEMERY5Down8 Keep in mindREMEMBER8Down10 The smaller and outermost of Mars' two natural satellitesDEIMOS6Down10 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin BrittenNIGHTMAIL9Down11 A Spanish dish made from rice, shellfish, chicken and vegetablesPAELLA6Down12 EatCONSUME7Down12 Coastal resort areaSEASIDE7Down14 Methodical setter in Cologne provided with one cruciverbalist's tipSCIENTIFIC10Down14 Politician attending debauched event with fellow countrymanCOMPATRIOT10Down15 MainCHIEF5Down15 Sick and twisted Athenian character in a twisted sex cultILLUMINATI10Down16 Likely to play with equipment around 10?KITTENISH9Down17 Queen of England from 1553 to 1558MARYI5Down17 RepresentativeAGENT5Down17 Amount wageredSTAKE5Down18 The fourth album by Abba, featuring the hits Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Money, Money, MoneyARRIVAL7Down19 Stewed meat and vegetables served in a thick white sauceFRICASSEE9Down22 Scotsman's flowers for another ScotsmanBURNS5Down22 A device allowing a swimmer to breathe while face down on the surface of the waterSNORKEL7Down24 Repeat base expression of Scotsman dropping ballECHO4Down24 John ___, British writer best known for his bawdy novel Fanny HillCLELAND7Down25 BittersweetTART4Down26 Theories expressed through one's manuscriptISMS4Down27 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage loverCAUSECELEBRE12Down29 English band who had hits with Cool for Cats and Up the JunctionSQUEEZE7Down30 Best Director Oscar-winner for Dances with WolvesKEVINCOSTNER12Down32 Sam Cooke song that gave Craig Douglas his only Number 1 singleONLYSIXTEEN11Down34 A factory that produces sheet metalROLLINGMILL11Down35 Superhero alter ego of schoolboy Eric Wimp in British comic booksBANANAMAN9Down37 Actress whose films include Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction and Kill BillUMATHURMAN10Down38 Popular houseplant with stiff lancelike leavesYUCCA5Down39 George ___, English painter noted for his pictures of horsesSTUBBS6Down43 Okra as used in Indian cookingBHINDI6Down44 Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old TestamentPSALM5Down47 See 7MONALISA8Down49 First name of Ingrid Bergman's character in the film CasablancaILSA4Down52

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, January 10, 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.