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The Independent Crossword January 12 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 12 2026 answers. The Monday puzzle has 54 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#
Marine mammalSEAL4Across1 Archetypal bachelor pressed by heartless adversary on showPROVERBIAL10Across1 Charged atomION3Across3 Join main motorwaySEAM4Across6 Measuring stickRULER5Across8 Terribly posh area besieged by disorderly rabble entering cityUNBEARABLY10Across9 UnyieldingADAMANT7Across9 Jay bird's prominent featureJOWL4Across10 As an alternativeINSTEAD7Across10 Set of furnitureSUITE5Across11 EmbodiedPERSONIFIED11Across12 Representative keeps fighting with sponsorSPOKESPERSON12Across12 Playful creature finally brought teacher back for coffeeRISTRETTO9Across15 One pursuing Grand Knight with iron weaponKNIFE5Across17 AccumulateAMASS5Across17 Throw out scientist's conclusion after artifice is discoveredEVICT5Across18 Enrage four couples when speaking out?INSENSATE9Across19 WarshipFRIGATE7Across19 Foolishly forget Idaho contains hospital providing cure for alcoholics?HAIROFTHEDOG12Across20 IngenuousARTLESS7Across21 CookerSTOVE5Across22 Secret agentSPY3Across23 Hotelier picked up court ordersRITZ4Across24 StinkREEK4Across24 Creator of institution admits liberal journalist struggledFLOUNDERED10Across25 Howl about disappearing trickSCAM4Across26 Perennial problem keeps retired secretary and doctor workingSNAPDRAGON10Across27

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Regularly applying product gives you seductive lookPOUT4Down1 SeedySORDID6Down1 Balls-up in Middlesbrough!ORBS4Down2 Book of mapsATLAS5Down2 Chagrin of former primate maintaining small allotmentEXASPERATION12Down3 PictureIMAGINE7Down3 Empty pool bordering lakeBLANK5Down4 SpiceNUTMEG6Down4 American is catching on, following everybody's hintsALLUSIONS9Down5 UnderpantsBRIEFS6Down5 BindingHARDANDFAST11Down6 Self-important GI locates bombs planted around islandEGOISTICAL10Down7 Church serviceMASS4Down7 Physician, broken by stay in A&E, feigned illnessMALINGERED10Down8 Classification code originally adopted by old Beijing religious communityPECKINGORDER12Down11 Rookies putting location before brassGREENHORNS10Down13 PreciselyEXACTLY7Down13 InsubstantialFLIMSY6Down14 Like Pepys, essentially, diarist cultivated houseplantASPIDISTRA10Down14 PesterHARASS6Down15 Hearing about hollow triumph over Norway in competitionTRIATHLON9Down16 FestoonBEDECK6Down16 Cast offSHED4Down18 Make amendsATONE5Down20 Supply Ecstasy and crackEQUIP5Down21 Revolutionary outfit show offBRAG4Down22 God of childhood innocenceODIN4Down23

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, January 12, 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.