The Independent Crossword January 20 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 20 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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Squirrel's nest41 AcrossReveal answer → Husky63 AcrossReveal answer → Engineer in Essex partly responsible for disturbing nature87 AcrossReveal answer → Heavy knife78 AcrossReveal answer → Show embarrassment about author being rather rude69 AcrossReveal answer → Fad59 AcrossReveal answer → Feeble hosts live it up in a punishing manner1010 AcrossReveal answer → Unwilling to compromise1210 AcrossReveal answer → American screenwriter, director and actor whose films include Manhattan1011 AcrossReveal answer → Except when611 AcrossReveal answer → You are to be removed from office young man411 AcrossReveal answer → Condiment612 AcrossReveal answer → American vessel brought back monarch from abroad412 AcrossReveal answer → Men's singles champion at Wimbledon in 19751012 AcrossReveal answer → One million standing for unwelcome burden1013 AcrossReveal answer → Series of cars manufactured by Honda since 1972513 AcrossReveal answer → Prelude1214 AcrossReveal answer → Limits of cognate sense affected meaning715 AcrossReveal answer → The last line of this classic comedy series was "I'm afraid it's started to rain again"1215 AcrossReveal answer → The study of handwriting, especially to analyse the writer's character1016 AcrossReveal answer → Formed a union started by takeover apparently717 AcrossReveal answer → See 191117 AcrossReveal answer → German submarine518 AcrossReveal answer → American guitarist and singer-songwriter whose band's hits include Fly Like An Eagle and Take the Money and Run1119 AcrossReveal answer → Explosive material719 AcrossReveal answer → Determined to catch grey cuckoo, immediately before heron1020 AcrossReveal answer → 1969 memoir by Henri Charrière about his imprisonment at a penal colony in French Guiana820 AcrossReveal answer → Posture620 AcrossReveal answer → Young male horse421 AcrossReveal answer → Sound content for each broadcast422 AcrossReveal answer → Song written by George M Cohan for his 1904 musical Little Johnny Jones2323 AcrossReveal answer → Prog rock band wanting second album to sound like Howling Wolf?424 AcrossReveal answer → Add compound interest to begin with or default badly1025 AcrossReveal answer → Steal inside information to finish off crime626 AcrossReveal answer → English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners1426 AcrossReveal answer → Sustained blow to the face?827 AcrossReveal answer → Max ___, German film director whose works include La Ronde and Lola Montes629 AcrossReveal answer → See 121031 AcrossReveal answer → King of Persia who founded the Persian empire1332 AcrossReveal answer → Small duck such as Anas crecca435 AcrossReveal answer → A watch chain with a bar at one end for attaching to a buttonhole636 AcrossReveal answer → Levy on the profits of a company or other incorporated body1438 AcrossReveal answer → Common rendering of the wounded Mercutio's curse on the Montague and Capulet families in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet2341 AcrossReveal answer → The highest mountain in Great Britain844 AcrossReveal answer → Léo Delibes opera in three acts to a libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille546 AcrossReveal answer → The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth648 AcrossReveal answer → Crustacean with a small triangular body and very long legs1050 AcrossReveal answer → 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw subtitled A Political Extravaganza1253 AcrossReveal answer → A tree of the genus Betula555 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus656 AcrossReveal answer → The body of all qualified voters1057 AcrossReveal answer →

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Pack (of cards)41 DownReveal answer → Misty appearance of mass removed from whisked albumen61 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet who was swallowed by a great fish51 DownReveal answer → Perpetual72 DownReveal answer → The capital of South Australia82 DownReveal answer → Put the finishing touches to flier that is about tax82 DownReveal answer → Wading bird53 DownReveal answer → The only golfer in the 20th century to win the Open in three different decades103 DownReveal answer → Small group receiving former record company's 50% share of album?103 DownReveal answer → Be controlled by veneer of orthodoxy?44 DownReveal answer → Building design124 DownReveal answer → The Muse of history44 DownReveal answer → Ant-eater paralysed ants regularly65 DownReveal answer → Reptile55 DownReveal answer → Friedrich ___, German political philosopher who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto65 DownReveal answer → Cut leak outside empty toilet86 DownReveal answer → Now and again126 DownReveal answer → American golfer who won seven majors, including the 1946 Open86 DownReveal answer → Insect of the family Lucanidae, the males of which have large branched mandibles107 DownReveal answer → Restrict67 DownReveal answer → Plain stage in auditorium68 DownReveal answer → Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides north-east of Islay48 DownReveal answer → Rabbi, born in Babylonia, who was president of the Sanhedrin and the first to formulate principles of biblical interpretation69 DownReveal answer → In cricket, an instance of getting out to one's first ball in both innings of a match810 DownReveal answer → One of a kind611 DownReveal answer → Stipulation713 DownReveal answer → 1923 collection of poetry by Khalil Gibran1014 DownReveal answer → Lacking money for fare from Scotland1014 DownReveal answer → Game fish515 DownReveal answer → Type missing certain characteristics of liberal fairness816 DownReveal answer → Male relative516 DownReveal answer → Band around the waist417 DownReveal answer → Quiet high-pitched sound associated with English swallow818 DownReveal answer → The small graceful animal Capreolus capreolus718 DownReveal answer → King that hurt sycophant's position?619 DownReveal answer → Spanish painter whose works include Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica1220 DownReveal answer → Does possibly delay one seizing power621 DownReveal answer → Sultanate whose capital in Muscat421 DownReveal answer → See 201222 DownReveal answer → Keep moving in part of person's sphere of vision623 DownReveal answer → Surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States524 DownReveal answer → District of Hackney whose name is thought to have derived from Deorlaf’s tun725 DownReveal answer → Female leader leaves children land with strings attached425 DownReveal answer → Well-known seduction poem by John Donne727 DownReveal answer → In the book of Genesis, the second son of Jacob and Zilpah528 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a statue of a maiden brought to life by Aphrodite in response to the prayers of the sculptor Pygmalion730 DownReveal answer → Marxist revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution1032 DownReveal answer → 1989 film telling the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War533 DownReveal answer → English synthpop duo comprising songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell734 DownReveal answer → French for "three"537 DownReveal answer → Colour with the chemical formula CoAl2O41038 DownReveal answer → A supposed descendant of the son of Abraham and Hagar1039 DownReveal answer → Fencing sword similar to the foil but with a larger guard and a heavier blade440 DownReveal answer → Pop group whose members include Gary Barlow and Mark Owen842 DownReveal answer → 1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden843 DownReveal answer → Album by Badfinger on which the song Without You first appeared645 DownReveal answer → Cathedral city in Devon647 DownReveal answer → The Muse of love poetry549 DownReveal answer → See 10851 DownReveal answer → Large fast-running flightless bird inhabiting the open plains of South America452 DownReveal answer → Town on the Isle of Man that is home to the island's only cathedral454 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, January 20, 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.