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The Independent Crossword January 26 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 26 2024 answers. The Friday puzzle has 56 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#
Force meeting with defeat - it’s a very thin line?FLOSS5Across1 Tricycle, in shortTRIKE5Across1 Unhappy Reginald, worried, losing headREGRETFUL9Across4 OutgrowthHORN4Across4 FirearmRIFLE5Across8 Abundant supply reduced and … what did you say?CUTANDCOMEAGAIN15Across9 Type of numberORDINAL7Across9 ExcelSURPASS7Across10 Quality of oil? Blasting of US county will secure itUNCTUOSITY10Across10 Eat awayERODE5Across11 Andromeda’s heart perhaps is for Perseus?HERO4Across11 Academic capMORTARBOARD11Across12 Declining, not fine, sickAILING6Across13 European and American openness not initially progressedANDORRAN8Across14 Lawyer recalled cheers with university abandoning contestATTORNEY8Across16 SkilledADEPT5Across17 Finished going through spoils, returning in intoxicated stateSTUPOR6Across18 RegretDEPLORE7Across19 RejectDISMISS7Across21 Entertaining event: concert with piano at endROMP4Across21 StrainerSIEVE5Across22 Cockney making suggestions about doctor, Unionist, having an affairINTRIGUING10Across22 StinkREEK4Across23 AttireDRESS5Across24 Complains wood also filled with dull fruitBEEFSTEAKTOMATO15Across25 University publisher family gathering about lecturerCLARENDON9Across26 Notorious logical figure having change of heart? Just a bitSPECK5Across27

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Decorative cape provided by some terrific husbandFICHU5Down1 SongbirdTHRUSH6Down1 Old friend stuck with nervous response of the eyeOPTICAL7Down2 DeduceINFER5Down2 StylishELEGANT7Down3 Startled, saying “Run” after incursion by Australian, bloodthirstySANGUINARY10Down3 Barrier of shrubsHEDGE5Down4 Little space to hide, say, between manure and cesspit?RECESS6Down4 Target of jewellery raid left holding broken stemGEMSTONE8Down5 SpiteRANCOUR7Down5 Pungent rootHORSERADISH11Down6 Upset the writer receiving a poor mark in testEXAM4Down6 Parisian idler displaying expensive coat around alleyFLANEUR7Down7 ChangeALTER5Down7 Computer arrangement a depressing affair for person of propertyLANDOWNER9Down8 Likely to spread too, causing boilsCONTAGIOUS10Down12 Not using oxygen? Possibly be a con with air providedANAEROBIC9Down13 SuperviseOVERSEE7Down13 Not in favourOPPOSED7Down14 GarishGAUDY5Down15 US comedian almost positioned close to the batter? Not ISEINFELD8Down15 GemsJEWELS6Down16 Time without permanent employees captured in paintTEMPERA7Down17 DeceiveTRICK5Down18 Makes enquiries mostly about tax relating to personal affairsPRIVATE7Down19 Knowledge added to collection of animals after hauling up sea-monsterKRAKEN6Down20 CorpulentOBESE5Down20 Pistol exhibiting good safety mechanismGLOCK5Down23 Plenty of water round here - I fish, saving nothingISLE4Down24

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, January 26, 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.