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The Independent Crossword January 23 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 23 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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Across

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Animal51 AcrossReveal answer → Line of seats34 AcrossReveal answer → Accumulate58 AcrossReveal answer → Dear former lover, lost in thought98 AcrossReveal answer → Hug79 AcrossReveal answer → America supplied desert plant59 AcrossReveal answer → University Department involved in colourful college festivity510 AcrossReveal answer → Holidaymaker710 AcrossReveal answer → Terrible511 AcrossReveal answer → Version of end of scene not in pic, Nolan pic911 AcrossReveal answer → Low neckline1112 AcrossReveal answer → Institute in Lausanne reorganised and put on a 12-month basis912 AcrossReveal answer → No indication of disapproval for immoral behaviour in other than the clergy514 AcrossReveal answer → Refill also reduced by 22 Across?515 AcrossReveal answer → Irate516 AcrossReveal answer → What may be loud colour317 AcrossReveal answer → Ancestry718 AcrossReveal answer → Concerning start of machinations against property?519 AcrossReveal answer → Fervent719 AcrossReveal answer → Tarnish521 AcrossReveal answer → Country cottage, one with central heating, secured by US lawyer521 AcrossReveal answer → Play on words322 AcrossReveal answer → One inexperienced guy with no rest at work922 AcrossReveal answer → Sensational523 AcrossReveal answer → To relax is to overwhelm chart stuff with light classics924 AcrossReveal answer → Lewd howl about women’s drawers at the outset525 AcrossReveal answer → Tense, distress continually returning - you can hear it in the voice526 AcrossReveal answer → Attack originating in part of East Anglia? One’s behind that927 AcrossReveal answer →

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Pulchritude61 DownReveal answer → Officer in work unit in the main not losing heart81 DownReveal answer → Generally72 DownReveal answer → Revival to appear after switching components62 DownReveal answer → Evidence93 DownReveal answer → Sin that sounds reducible to its core elements?43 DownReveal answer → Chafe34 DownReveal answer → Make smaller vessel to carry small car84 DownReveal answer → Save others after overlooking final indication to proceed65 DownReveal answer → Dock platform55 DownReveal answer → Intimate female friend in Paris, duplicitous one86 DownReveal answer → Tooth-cleaning thread116 DownReveal answer → That chap with a revolutionary desire is an Irish poet67 DownReveal answer → Kingdom57 DownReveal answer → Taking off, having snatched cover from coffin? That’s dreadful99 DownReveal answer → Pre-birth911 DownReveal answer → Taking off, having snatched a number of bells? That’s tempting913 DownReveal answer → Window fitter713 DownReveal answer → Cereal plant514 DownReveal answer → Impassioned615 DownReveal answer → Particular copper having bar turned over after place emptied816 DownReveal answer → Understand517 DownReveal answer → Use film innovatively, with unknown factor, to create something with suspense?818 DownReveal answer → Possess320 DownReveal answer → I agree to pack additional line for this fish820 DownReveal answer → Thin top erected over Aussie truck621 DownReveal answer → Solver that is audible in greeting622 DownReveal answer → No country lover? Drag one into Northumberland area623 DownReveal answer → Spy, note, probing a lot of evidence of murder?425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, January 23, 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.