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The Independent Crossword January 12 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 12 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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Marine mammal41 AcrossReveal answer → Archetypal bachelor pressed by heartless adversary on show101 AcrossReveal answer → Charged atom33 AcrossReveal answer → Join main motorway46 AcrossReveal answer → Measuring stick58 AcrossReveal answer → Terribly posh area besieged by disorderly rabble entering city109 AcrossReveal answer → Unyielding79 AcrossReveal answer → Jay bird's prominent feature410 AcrossReveal answer → As an alternative710 AcrossReveal answer → Set of furniture511 AcrossReveal answer → Embodied1112 AcrossReveal answer → Representative keeps fighting with sponsor1212 AcrossReveal answer → Playful creature finally brought teacher back for coffee915 AcrossReveal answer → One pursuing Grand Knight with iron weapon517 AcrossReveal answer → Accumulate517 AcrossReveal answer → Throw out scientist's conclusion after artifice is discovered518 AcrossReveal answer → Enrage four couples when speaking out?919 AcrossReveal answer → Warship719 AcrossReveal answer → Foolishly forget Idaho contains hospital providing cure for alcoholics?1220 AcrossReveal answer → Ingenuous721 AcrossReveal answer → Cooker522 AcrossReveal answer → Secret agent323 AcrossReveal answer → Hotelier picked up court orders424 AcrossReveal answer → Stink424 AcrossReveal answer → Creator of institution admits liberal journalist struggled1025 AcrossReveal answer → Howl about disappearing trick426 AcrossReveal answer → Perennial problem keeps retired secretary and doctor working1027 AcrossReveal answer →

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Regularly applying product gives you seductive look41 DownReveal answer → Seedy61 DownReveal answer → Balls-up in Middlesbrough!42 DownReveal answer → Book of maps52 DownReveal answer → Chagrin of former primate maintaining small allotment123 DownReveal answer → Picture73 DownReveal answer → Empty pool bordering lake54 DownReveal answer → Spice64 DownReveal answer → American is catching on, following everybody's hints95 DownReveal answer → Underpants65 DownReveal answer → Binding116 DownReveal answer → Self-important GI locates bombs planted around island107 DownReveal answer → Church service47 DownReveal answer → Physician, broken by stay in A&E, feigned illness108 DownReveal answer → Classification code originally adopted by old Beijing religious community1211 DownReveal answer → Rookies putting location before brass1013 DownReveal answer → Precisely713 DownReveal answer → Insubstantial614 DownReveal answer → Like Pepys, essentially, diarist cultivated houseplant1014 DownReveal answer → Pester615 DownReveal answer → Hearing about hollow triumph over Norway in competition916 DownReveal answer → Festoon616 DownReveal answer → Cast off418 DownReveal answer → Make amends520 DownReveal answer → Supply Ecstasy and crack521 DownReveal answer → Revolutionary outfit show off422 DownReveal answer → God of childhood innocence423 DownReveal answer →

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