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The Independent Crossword January 18 2024 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 58 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 18 2024 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 58 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#
President of the Royal Society limits monster's developmentPROGRESS8Across1 Set of twentySCORE5Across1 Song of praisePAEAN5Across4 One that stoops in autumn: short-tailed rookFALCON6Across5 Fix securelyEMBED5Across8 Take advantage ofEXPLOIT7Across9 Garbo swims right out after Victor docked in Wisconsin lakeWINNEBAGO9Across10 Make biggerENLARGE7Across10 Good girl tumbler?GLASS5Across11 Break in usageLAPSE5Across11 Little weight unit, and another for gasOZONE5Across12 Deviously elect Sire Dudley (as he was historically known)LEICESTER9Across13 Subtly expressedUNDERSTATED11Across13 Following soft stepsFLIGHT6Across14 Kelly really regularly dispatched someone in the militaryGENERAL7Across15 SkilfulADEPT5Across16 Sending an SMSTEXTING7Across18 Lowered the moral character of Daphne's missing content when retired?DEBASED7Across18 Take outEXTRACT7Across20 Seize her in the auditorium, Groucho!JULIUS6Across21 PendingONICE5Across22 From that timeSINCE5Across23 DessertSWEET5Across24 Social group at skid row, Oxford met occasionally in clothes storeCLOAKROOM9Across24 Rapscallion's initially suspicious about politicianSCAMP5Across26 Quaint northern child growing up fast?TWEEN5Across27 Have a fling with two royals who've departed in recent timesPHILANDER9Across28 Stop South Asian living abroad with holy womanDESIST6Across29 Dadaist of the highest level, finally de Winter can transgress artMAXERNST8Across30

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Discuss prisoner having one ring between two wivesPOWWOW6Down1 Root vegetableSWEDE5Down1 All things consideredONBALANCE9Down2 Working outside West Indian state line is a detrimental moveOWNGOAL7Down2 Give sanction toENDORSE7Down3 What hibernator hopefully does about, say, soldiers returning with spadesREEMERGES9Down3 StudentPUPIL5Down4 Regressive ayatollah still restricts this foodstuffSHALLOT7Down4 Self-imageEGO3Down5 Rebecca's back, with regret about grand feudARGUE5Down6 SpiceNUTMEG6Down6 Rachel endlessly reviewed books inside Melody MakerCHANTER7Down7 RequireNECESSITATE11Down7 Ron lists broken ventsNOSTRILS8Down8 Really enjoying getting the answers without first dropping the ballLOVING6Down9 Steep rock facePRECIPICE9Down12 UneasyANXIOUS7Down14 Stroke gentlyCARESS6Down15 Plan clues entangled in concept of linear algebraNULLSPACE9Down16 ExchangeTRADE5Down17 Enlightened writer's boss holds up English antique coinEDUCATED8Down17 Hub in Menabilly drops telephonesBLOWERS7Down19 WelcomeGREET5Down19 Du Maurier's first and last discs by Paul McCartney's Wings are feebleDROOPY6Down20 Unit of weightTON3Down21 Force chartered accountants' organisation to admit a countryJAMAICA7Down21 Upstanding banana DNA guy protects one from AfricaUGANDAN7Down22 Some rays of light seen in headland fireSPIRIT6Down23 Two books of family genealogies with only the covers remainingKINGS5Down25

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, January 18, 2024. 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.