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The Independent Crossword January 15 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 15 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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Toxic chemical made by strange doc yearning to inhabit evil alter ego151 AcrossReveal answer → Assert51 AcrossReveal answer → Paddle34 AcrossReveal answer → Germs87 AcrossReveal answer → Mop48 AcrossReveal answer → Long pillow79 AcrossReveal answer → Copied data source from installation wizard59 AcrossReveal answer → Oscar won by impersonator - ridiculous and irregular910 AcrossReveal answer → Reported great uncertainty in criminals' location711 AcrossReveal answer → Deduce511 AcrossReveal answer → I married a couple in cleric's office712 AcrossReveal answer → Join prisoner heading for execution in Hull813 AcrossReveal answer → Recite fluently713 AcrossReveal answer → Naked Yankee claiming length is something over a foot515 AcrossReveal answer → Bet516 AcrossReveal answer → Vocation717 AcrossReveal answer → Rambler almost here after covering one kilometre518 AcrossReveal answer → Deceased419 AcrossReveal answer → Slaughterhouse820 AcrossReveal answer → Mufti's cryptically welcoming bishop with quiet greeting820 AcrossReveal answer → Decay322 AcrossReveal answer → Perverted523 AcrossReveal answer → Pirate heard ribald melody723 AcrossReveal answer → Cold laugh and smile expressing dismay725 AcrossReveal answer → Public official is pals with spymaster embedded in Arab state926 AcrossReveal answer → Dictionary entry's origin in light Austen novel527 AcrossReveal answer → Find rodeo unexpectedly hosted by bubbly gay man1528 AcrossReveal answer →

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Colouring stick61 DownReveal answer → Elevation of inaugural location for Black King's castle61 DownReveal answer → Spooner's awful basketball shot is wasted92 DownReveal answer → Towards the stern32 DownReveal answer → Repetitive ascending extract from twelve-tone nocturne73 DownReveal answer → Killer83 DownReveal answer → Bang on about cutting taxes, endlessly regressive54 DownReveal answer → Gemstone44 DownReveal answer → Tough quality of game stuffed with hock?95 DownReveal answer → Indignant95 DownReveal answer → He said sesame and lettuce in buns are "burger amateur's toppings"76 DownReveal answer → Jewellery item carved in relief56 DownReveal answer → Speaking in code, I elected to abet uprising57 DownReveal answer → Avoided having key cut88 DownReveal answer → Give up910 DownReveal answer → Fighting axe812 DownReveal answer → Very keen514 DownReveal answer → Sports car in a large Somerset town keeping acceleration at zero914 DownReveal answer → Thing615 DownReveal answer → Blackmail material to strike down MP with: corruption involving mother916 DownReveal answer → Mark completed Russian author via audiobook817 DownReveal answer → Unit of power418 DownReveal answer → African fish named in film when caught by sailors719 DownReveal answer → Fighter runs through sobbing person721 DownReveal answer → Large cask321 DownReveal answer → Info, ultimately suppressed, had exposed setter's disgrace622 DownReveal answer → International Baccalaureate excluding overthrown religious leader524 DownReveal answer → One Barking prison given official documentation525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, January 15, 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.