The Independent Crossword January 24 2026 Answers

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Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 24 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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Travel permit American lost ahead of Italian excursion51 AcrossReveal answer → Haystack41 AcrossReveal answer → Choice of roads taken53 AcrossReveal answer → Exploding spout went as fast as possible94 AcrossReveal answer → Stiff, silky fabric78 AcrossReveal answer → The first Elvis Costello single that credited the Attractions as his backing band219 AcrossReveal answer → Civic dignitary59 AcrossReveal answer → Defensive structure hawk circles at a distance endlessly79 AcrossReveal answer → Partiality1210 AcrossReveal answer → Tilt one square, checking finishing touches of cyclic quadrilateral710 AcrossReveal answer → Endure611 AcrossReveal answer → Swans crowding over English island mostly common knowledge?1011 AcrossReveal answer → Design involving small pieces of coloured glass, stone etc fitted together612 AcrossReveal answer → Fish tooth incomplete412 AcrossReveal answer → Beginning613 AcrossReveal answer → Fluid, containing chiefly white blood cells, that is collected from the tissues of the body513 AcrossReveal answer → Blinded strongman succeeded in wrestling mason614 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Curaçao1014 AcrossReveal answer → Unpleasant1215 AcrossReveal answer → British poet who was poet laureate from 1968 to 19721315 AcrossReveal answer → A large destructive sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence or volcanic eruption716 AcrossReveal answer → Made stable lad heading away head in immediately to stop horse816 AcrossReveal answer → Opel model sold as the Vauxhall Astra in the UK617 AcrossReveal answer → Blue's Clues cut episode's beginning and ran wild818 AcrossReveal answer → The first Temptations single to feature David Ruffin on lead vocals618 AcrossReveal answer → Barrel through rolling volcanic area together619 AcrossReveal answer → J K ___, economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State919 AcrossReveal answer → Defence of being elsewhere519 AcrossReveal answer → Poison720 AcrossReveal answer → Heathen521 AcrossReveal answer → I don't like this starter of toasted Asian bread422 AcrossReveal answer → Second-hand422 AcrossReveal answer → Fighting with target lacking weakness1023 AcrossReveal answer → Malaysian oil and gas company founded in 1974823 AcrossReveal answer → Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charrière's memoir Papillon1225 AcrossReveal answer → Instrument on wheels I put in auditorium at the front726 AcrossReveal answer → Mush a chef originally left in box?727 AcrossReveal answer → Martin ___, scorer of one of England's four goals in the 1966 World Cup Final628 AcrossReveal answer → Rap battle's conclusion after fine dance includes spot of filth928 AcrossReveal answer → Maiden wanting a baby leaves bedroom feeling sullen529 AcrossReveal answer → Author who created Harry Potter930 AcrossReveal answer → The former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre631 AcrossReveal answer → Inflammation of the brain1232 AcrossReveal answer → A shrub or small tree with tiny scale-like leaves on slender branches833 AcrossReveal answer → A short-barrelled pocket pistol of large calibre936 AcrossReveal answer → In mountaineering, a short portable ladder or set of webbing loops that can be attached to a karabiner or fifi hook638 AcrossReveal answer → The second largest city in Poland640 AcrossReveal answer → Italian dumplings made with semolina pasta or potatoes743 AcrossReveal answer → English author whose works include The Heaven Tree Trilogy1346 AcrossReveal answer → Body of water in New York state used by the US Navy to test equipment such as transducers and sonar arrays and systems1048 AcrossReveal answer → Italian ball game closely related to French pétanque549 AcrossReveal answer → Pseudonymous street artist who directed and starred in the documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop650 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King that made The Shirelles the first all-girl group to have a US number one single2152 AcrossReveal answer →

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Is half of North African dish underneath very sticky?71 DownReveal answer → Scoundrel51 DownReveal answer → Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located101 DownReveal answer → Bet someone was burned here52 DownReveal answer → Thoughtfulness132 DownReveal answer → Ford model replaced by the Escort62 DownReveal answer → Notices Dorothy's dog eats regular bites of foulest fungi103 DownReveal answer → V, X, L, C, etc133 DownReveal answer → The study of the sources and development of words93 DownReveal answer → Capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan84 DownReveal answer → Odysseus74 DownReveal answer → Free amusing sheep fellows no longer needed64 DownReveal answer → Island in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams75 DownReveal answer → Merit45 DownReveal answer → Bet on three racers in TT race and F1 broadcast85 DownReveal answer → Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means "young blackbird"66 DownReveal answer → Full of happiness66 DownReveal answer → Wine bag46 DownReveal answer → Labyrinth47 DownReveal answer → The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism67 DownReveal answer → Perhaps set books and papers up to support English article97 DownReveal answer → Reactionary detective caught dropping heroin78 DownReveal answer → The surname of the Judas who betrayed Jesus, according to the New Testament88 DownReveal answer → First baseman in the Abbott and Costello routine featured in the film Rain Man39 DownReveal answer → A portion or instalment, especially of a loan or share issue, from the French for 'slice'710 DownReveal answer → "They went to sea in a Sieve, they did", according to Edward Lear1111 DownReveal answer → Defect712 DownReveal answer → Mother drinks dodgy retsina - typical1013 DownReveal answer → Wobble614 DownReveal answer → Shrewd lot of wives put money first being considered mad915 DownReveal answer → A small slow-moving lizard with the ability to change colour915 DownReveal answer → Wealthy416 DownReveal answer → May prisoner like to be confined as islander?817 DownReveal answer → Construct517 DownReveal answer → Pass fool eating black bread718 DownReveal answer → Stinging insect418 DownReveal answer → 1888 play by August Strindberg set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Swedish count918 DownReveal answer → Trimmed piece of meat at the edges really silver720 DownReveal answer → Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth920 DownReveal answer → Heart expert necromancer boxes up621 DownReveal answer → Playable game mode in the Super Smash Bros. franchise in which players must defeat every character721 DownReveal answer → Real first name of Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister522 DownReveal answer → Government think to scrap border walls? No problem for me!524 DownReveal answer → The small graceful animal Capreolus capreolus724 DownReveal answer → George ___, the man with the scores played by Matt Lucas on the TV game show Shooting Stars525 DownReveal answer → Challenges pictures lacking flash425 DownReveal answer → Danish physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics926 DownReveal answer → The largest island of Greece527 DownReveal answer → City in eastern New York, near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers1129 DownReveal answer → Belfast-born rugby player who won 69 caps for Ireland and 12 for the British and Irish Lions1034 DownReveal answer → Central character in the sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister played by Paul Eddington935 DownReveal answer → The bird Bubo bubo837 DownReveal answer → Small furry animals in the Star Trek universe that react to the presence of Klingons839 DownReveal answer → Captured Trojan commander exchanged for Cressida in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida741 DownReveal answer → 1977 Don Siegel spy film starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick742 DownReveal answer → Surname shared by the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland football managers at Euro 2016644 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from "27 Down"645 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a Phoenician king of Tyre who was the father of Europa647 DownReveal answer → 2004 horror film directed by James Wan that spawned many sequels351 DownReveal answer →

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