The Independent Crossword January 3 2026 Answers

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Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 3 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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Alien beginning to eat toxic nuts61 AcrossReveal answer → Untruth31 AcrossReveal answer → Follow43 AcrossReveal answer → I do parts playing in the style of others85 AcrossReveal answer → Commotion87 AcrossReveal answer → Underwater ridge48 AcrossReveal answer → Violet-grey network of lines next to ebbing African river89 AcrossReveal answer → Entranced109 AcrossReveal answer → South African-born actress who won an Oscar for Monster1410 AcrossReveal answer → Needle chap meeting family610 AcrossReveal answer → Boy will like Greece611 AcrossReveal answer → The evergreen Mediterranean tree Quercus ilex712 AcrossReveal answer → Month612 AcrossReveal answer → Main wrappers removed from rare item: bread in Saudi Arabia812 AcrossReveal answer → Crockery item613 AcrossReveal answer → Undecided1014 AcrossReveal answer → I'm travelling quickly in a small buggy to get microscopic creatures1214 AcrossReveal answer → Winners of the first five European Cups in football1015 AcrossReveal answer → German golfer who won the 2010 PGA Championship and the 2014 US Open1216 AcrossReveal answer → Possibly rent rocks for crustacean1217 AcrossReveal answer → American actress and comedienne whose films include Nashville, 9 to 5 and I Heart Huckabees1017 AcrossReveal answer → Conceal417 AcrossReveal answer → Reject818 AcrossReveal answer → 1966 hit single by Stevie Wonder subtitled Everything's Alright718 AcrossReveal answer → Door fastener420 AcrossReveal answer → Address a gentleman restricting competition820 AcrossReveal answer → Pen name of Charles Lamb420 AcrossReveal answer → Stadium that was originally the home of Everton FC, from 1884 to 1891721 AcrossReveal answer → Alcove321 AcrossReveal answer → False statement by great German chemist622 AcrossReveal answer → A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex1123 AcrossReveal answer → Accompany group of women visiting barbarian623 AcrossReveal answer → Spike welcomes surprisingly nice pacifist825 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal from American wing826 AcrossReveal answer → English largely behind festival627 AcrossReveal answer → Brightest star in the constellation Taurus927 AcrossReveal answer → Member of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels529 AcrossReveal answer → The sixth largest city in Ohio630 AcrossReveal answer → Film for which Alfonso Cuarón received a Best Director Oscar at the 2014 awards731 AcrossReveal answer → Nick ___, singer who found fame in a commercial for Levi's532 AcrossReveal answer → Town in Uganda, on Lake Victoria, at whose airport an elite unit of the Israeli army freed over 100 hostages following a hijacking in 1976733 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Rwanda635 AcrossReveal answer → River in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece that rises on the western slope of the Aroania mountain, near the village of Kastria537 AcrossReveal answer → The world's sixth-largest country by total area938 AcrossReveal answer → 1976 John Schlesinger film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, adapted by William Goldman from his novel1139 AcrossReveal answer → Liqueur or cordial flavoured with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits741 AcrossReveal answer → A military cap with a circular top and a horizontal peak446 AcrossReveal answer → German-born actress and singer whose films included The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus and Destry Rides Again1547 AcrossReveal answer → Widespread flowering plant also known as a marguerite1048 AcrossReveal answer → Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure1250 AcrossReveal answer → Croatian tennis player who won the men's singles at the 2014 US Open1052 AcrossReveal answer → The only group to have had a UK hit single sung entirely in Irish Gaelic753 AcrossReveal answer → Eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates654 AcrossReveal answer → See 471555 AcrossReveal answer →

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Delphinium81 DownReveal answer → Jean ___, prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 200381 DownReveal answer → 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hat62 DownReveal answer → Flightless bird32 DownReveal answer → The other king from the south is Persian ruler62 DownReveal answer → In game, small victory ends in frank exchanges113 DownReveal answer → Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor whose films include Beat the Devil, Trapeze and The Hunchback of Notre Dame163 DownReveal answer → Large hairy spider93 DownReveal answer → Tammi ___, Motown star whose duets with Marvin Gaye included You're All I Need to Get By74 DownReveal answer → Caught Old Nick, reportedly, displaying bladed weapons94 DownReveal answer → Notion44 DownReveal answer → The ___ Prince, 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly75 DownReveal answer → Friend left without recycling bin, creating flipping diversion75 DownReveal answer → Small village65 DownReveal answer → Ring of light46 DownReveal answer → Large polychaete worm of the genus Aphrodite86 DownReveal answer → Quash underground resistance on return56 DownReveal answer → Pop art movement snubbed37 DownReveal answer → Coconut fibre used in making rope and matting47 DownReveal answer → Appropriate fur coats nudist regularly ignored88 DownReveal answer → The Mediterranean cruciferous plant Eruca sativa, also called arugula68 DownReveal answer → Handsworth-born singer whose top ten hits include Superstar, Thank You and See It In A Boy's Eyes79 DownReveal answer → Gear910 DownReveal answer → Reckless youth811 DownReveal answer → 2000 film starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson, written and directed by Ben Elton, based on his novel Inconceivable913 DownReveal answer → Field of activity613 DownReveal answer → Uncompromising and concerning, like Lewis on eponymous TV series1113 DownReveal answer → Dancer and actress who partnered Fred Astaire in ten films1214 DownReveal answer → Healthy and mature farming system915 DownReveal answer → Louse eggs415 DownReveal answer → Initiate fight very loudly, stopped by knockout816 DownReveal answer → Italian greeting416 DownReveal answer → Device to contact doctor, say: buzzer on a clothes line718 DownReveal answer → Flatfish319 DownReveal answer → Minister to eat around six619 DownReveal answer → 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett that became the basis for a successful six-part film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy1019 DownReveal answer → American priest secreted small insect521 DownReveal answer → The letter I in the NATO phonetic alphabet522 DownReveal answer → Body of water linked with the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar1624 DownReveal answer → Anger in 75% of country (or perhaps 43%?)324 DownReveal answer → In the United States, a parade before or during a high school or college homecoming event1025 DownReveal answer → In the Roman Catholic Church, a devotion consisting of prayers or services on nine consecutive days626 DownReveal answer → ITV franchise holder for the East of England627 DownReveal answer → Steam clipper wrecked in an 1859 storm which led to the first gale warning service being introduced by the Meteorological Office1228 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Sana'a529 DownReveal answer → Very light wood of the tree Ochroma lagopus534 DownReveal answer → Actor who played Loggo in the TV series Boys from the Blackstuff936 DownReveal answer → Industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dar and Cynon840 DownReveal answer → 1999 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr842 DownReveal answer → Mexican spirit distilled from an agave plant743 DownReveal answer → Former name for Taiwan744 DownReveal answer → Jacques ___, French philosopher and literary critic regarded as the founder of deconstruction745 DownReveal answer → A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juice647 DownReveal answer → A place where bees are kept649 DownReveal answer → 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little451 DownReveal answer →

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