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The Independent Crossword January 26 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 26 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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Extra work that’s from The Sun?121 AcrossReveal answer → Hasten (Archaic)31 AcrossReveal answer → Wail43 AcrossReveal answer → Flee67 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor68 AcrossReveal answer → Cab49 AcrossReveal answer → Stew over review of "beige" Hamlet?99 AcrossReveal answer → Tired old PM must change direction ...510 AcrossReveal answer → Cross810 AcrossReveal answer → Theatre seating area1111 AcrossReveal answer → ... line from article penned by bonkers Boris611 AcrossReveal answer → What will gamer do in first-person shooter Inferno?812 AcrossReveal answer → S&M gear seen across naked cult's camps613 AcrossReveal answer → Minister ultimately crushed by wagging tongues?814 AcrossReveal answer → Sprat815 AcrossReveal answer → Count’s about to break wind in front of Lord Lieutenant817 AcrossReveal answer → Firm training received by Himmler's baby spies619 AcrossReveal answer → Solemn promise419 AcrossReveal answer → Clinging mollusc620 AcrossReveal answer → Strip of carpet621 AcrossReveal answer → Open pie422 AcrossReveal answer → Bats flap over water822 AcrossReveal answer → Furrow323 AcrossReveal answer → Deliver prompt following short pause624 AcrossReveal answer → Rat run sent back through Parisian thoroughfare526 AcrossReveal answer → Traditional style sold in fashion houses close to Edinburgh927 AcrossReveal answer → Kamala Harris, originally filling for Joe Biden, came unstuck as leader1228 AcrossReveal answer →

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Spouse71 DownReveal answer → Male topless, doing spring cleaning71 DownReveal answer → OMG! Mike's dropped a clanger72 DownReveal answer → Inspect72 DownReveal answer → Sluggish Raleigh cyclist exhausted on Tour93 DownReveal answer → Variety of rice73 DownReveal answer → Drink Bash Street kid chucked up44 DownReveal answer → Marine mammal54 DownReveal answer → Waifs exposed without underwear in burlesque85 DownReveal answer → Achievement45 DownReveal answer → Trump wants one head of BBC arrested by Christmas56 DownReveal answer → Drinking-places46 DownReveal answer → Warning: hipsters lifted by US federal agents …67 DownReveal answer → … one after another for speaking out can be put in prison68 DownReveal answer → Infatuated712 DownReveal answer → Singer713 DownReveal answer → Implore714 DownReveal answer → Child's hero hurt, twice snubbed by Adult Choice915 DownReveal answer → Fiddle endlessly with once bright bloomers816 DownReveal answer → Surprise attack416 DownReveal answer → Flower part517 DownReveal answer → Brother inspired by Mick Hucknall album?617 DownReveal answer → Make pass after getting round in bar618 DownReveal answer → Microorganism418 DownReveal answer → Music producer in shot: “Cut!”720 DownReveal answer → Cunning mum ruined late husband721 DownReveal answer → On reflection, is the First Lady a riddle?523 DownReveal answer → Virtually immaculate conception425 DownReveal answer →

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