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The Independent Crossword January 12 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 12 2024. 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Take legal action against31 AcrossReveal answer → Large black birds53 AcrossReveal answer → Seaman not entirely kind about trouble65 AcrossReveal answer → Confront67 AcrossReveal answer → Catching leaders in head office agreeing77 AcrossReveal answer → A dozen68 AcrossReveal answer → Froth49 AcrossReveal answer → Old busybody, left-winger, holding text for you510 AcrossReveal answer → Former lover in charge amongst women active in US state911 AcrossReveal answer → Art form811 AcrossReveal answer → Fool with no work accepting reduction in revenue, perhaps at first1012 AcrossReveal answer → Suffocate712 AcrossReveal answer → Mate carrying one component of wishing well?414 AcrossReveal answer → Cut back, limiting transactions a bit more516 AcrossReveal answer → Authorised816 AcrossReveal answer → Beloved418 AcrossReveal answer → Team to go down318 AcrossReveal answer → Breed of sheep619 AcrossReveal answer → Toilet getting dry internally? It’s something of a gamble519 AcrossReveal answer → Channel620 AcrossReveal answer → Dahl character, not the full pair? The very thing420 AcrossReveal answer → High clouds: I start getting perturbed after a lot at sea1021 AcrossReveal answer → Zest522 AcrossReveal answer → Spoil323 AcrossReveal answer → Coffer artist depicted with golden band924 AcrossReveal answer → First couple heading off assessing cost of decoration526 AcrossReveal answer → Spot, or half-spot, porter’s office727 AcrossReveal answer → Skin disease: woman’s source of annoyance, mostly628 AcrossReveal answer →

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Division of the year61 DownReveal answer → Islander’s son with a complaint61 DownReveal answer → Large deer32 DownReveal answer → Parson last to be moved in change in order102 DownReveal answer → Inexpensive53 DownReveal answer → That man interrupts canine with a doggy treat?43 DownReveal answer → Hissing excuses upset conservation group84 DownReveal answer → Flightless bird74 DownReveal answer → Protected95 DownReveal answer → Target of coastal erosion? Absolutely true, as heard on the radio86 DownReveal answer → Happening56 DownReveal answer → Finished half of Beatles LP, getting up48 DownReveal answer → Attractive opportunity opening finally after merchandise running short119 DownReveal answer → Notes United fans as biased1110 DownReveal answer → Qualm910 DownReveal answer → Foreboding evil713 DownReveal answer → Hope to stay limber - using this?1013 DownReveal answer → In the manner of514 DownReveal answer → Fashion supplier, one not so clever yesterday in Paris815 DownReveal answer → Less difficult615 DownReveal answer → Lariat517 DownReveal answer → New cryptic clue, not last one among three, for Shakespearean drunk817 DownReveal answer → Male sheep321 DownReveal answer → Experts securing very good high points622 DownReveal answer → Film’s star to support a cause, though not at first423 DownReveal answer → Source of wood, support for golfer crossing river425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, January 12, 2024. 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.