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The Independent Crossword January 31 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 105 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 31 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 105 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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Coffin standBIER4Across1 DragHAUL4Across3 AmphibianTOAD4Across7 ConjurorMAGICIAN8Across8 Range Rover’s number one - for radio operators this car will be nextSIERRA6Across8 PuppetMARIONETTE10Across9 Head of entertainment, facing a charge, moves forward without fearUNAFRAID8Across9 Quiet male worker is overwhelming when gamePHEASANT8Across10 A sweet thing to find precious metal on doorwayGATEAU6Across11 1970 album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungDEJAVU6Across11 US conductor and composer who wrote the score of the musical West Side StoryLEONARDBERNSTEIN16Across12 Spring flowerCROCUS6Across12 Damage for adult in gay magazineGLOSSY6Across12 Garden toolTROWEL6Across13 Picnic's dessert has meat in itCLAMBAKE8Across13 1991 western comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack PalanceCITYSLICKERS12Across14 Widespread flowering plant also known as a margueriteOXEYEDAISY10Across15 Exaggerated sketchCARICATURE10Across15 Second-hand clothes that woman showedUSHERED7Across15 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Reversal of FortuneJEREMYIRONS11Across16 The Biggest ___ in the World, 1928 song by Will E Haines, Jimmy Harper and Tommy Connor made famous by Gracie FieldsASPIDISTRA10Across17 See 5 DownLANGUAGETEACHER15Across17 Large amounts of money (Informal)BIGBUCKS8Across18 Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in 2004FIREFOX7Across19 Sergio ___, Argentine footballer whose 95th-minute goal in the last game of the season clinched the 2011-12 Premier League title for Manchester CityAGUERO6Across20 Animal moving abroad in both directionsLABRADOR8Across20 Slightly openAJAR4Across20 Midfielder who captained Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finalsTOMASBOY8Across21 Preliminary raceHEAT4Across21 What's left on a cemetery's bordersLEGACY6Across22 Office tableDESK4Across22 Bruno ___, German-born US conductor who championed the works of Gustav MahlerWALTER6Across23 Noted German charioteer losing wheelWAGNER6Across23 Giant insects, one of them biting HenryBEHEMOTH8Across25 God may be seen as model, I assumePOSEIDON8Across26 American rock band whose acoustic ballad More Than Words was a big hit on both sides of the AtlanticEXTREME7Across26 Busy road blocked by enormous deliveryDOOSRA6Across27 Another name for a wood pigeonRINGDOVE8Across27 Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray is believed to have composed his Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardSTOKEPOGES10Across29 Actress best known for playing Angie Watts in EastEndersANITADOBSON11Across30 See 29STOKEPOGES10Across32 Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689NONJUROR8Across35 A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz typeSAMOYED7Across36 There are 100 in an Israeli shekelAGOROT6Across37 A disease caused by a dietary deficiency of nicotinic acidPELLAGRA8Across38 Pokémon species that evolves from Pikachu using the Thunder Stone in the Nintendo game seriesRAICHU6Across40 2000 hit single for Tom Jones in collaboration with producer Mousse TSEXBOMB7Across41 English writer, notably for The Face magazine, and broadcaster whose books include The Way We WoreROBERTELMS10Across45 Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in December 1879ADOLLSHOUSE11Across46 Courtyard in Chicago's main civic centre dominated by an untitled 50-foot steel sculpture by Pablo PicassoDALEYPLAZA10Across47 English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist best known for playing Baldrick in the TV series BlackadderTONYROBINSON12Across48 Another name for the Nunc dimittis, often used as the final song in a religious serviceCANTICLEOFSIMEON16Across49 Scottish market town made a Royal Burgh in 1140 by King David ILANARK6Across50

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Old Pope, born in Britain, not in Germany, rejecting tea we hear, also fresh fruit after short holidaysNICHOLASBREAKSPEAR18Down1 Disease caused by dietary deficiency of thiamineBERIBERI8Down1 Floating markerBUOY4Down1 The cupbearer of the gods in Greek mythologyGANYMEDE8Down2 Present in a localised areaENDEMIC7Down2 Singer may not always be the same when losing voice at the startCANARY6Down3 English actor, comedian, musician and composer who first came to prominence in the comedy revue Beyond the FringeDUDLEYMOORE11Down3 EmbraceHUG3Down3 In Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and ClytemnestraELECTRA7Down4 Male relativeUNCLE5Down4 Union Jack raised by Reform MP after last of migrants will get what is fairJUSTICE7Down4 Food of the godsAMBROSIA8Down5 For example Dutch PM, after consuming light meal, dismisses that person in educationLANGUAGETEACHER15Down5 Song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian that was a top ten hit for BadfingerCOMEANDGETIT12Down5 The fourth planet from the sunMARS4Down6 Cutlery boxCANTEEN7Down6 Dry, only letting in a minimum of rainBRUT4Down6 General during the American Revolutionary War who plotted to surrender the fort at West Point to the British forcesBENEDICTARNOLD14Down7 Appropriate greeting to sailorHIJACK6Down7 English radio and TV presenter and journalist who co-hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am from 1983 to 1989ANNEDIAMOND11Down8 Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of GibraltarATLANTIS8Down9 Breed of Hungarian sporting dog similar to a WeimaranerVIZSLA6Down10 Emotional eruptionOUTBURST8Down10 InconsistentERRATIC7Down11 Spongy cake also known as a Scotch pancakeDROPSCONE9Down13 Perform surgeryOPERATE7Down14 Explosive stuff stored in Goodison, evacuated after second gameBACKGAMMON10Down14 Animated explorer and daughter impressed by band from Birmingham, a place of fabulous wealthELDORADO8Down16 FillIMBUE5Down16 Armoured vehicleTANK4Down17 Essential part of sweetcorn, and there's a lot moreETCETERA8Down18 Another name for sleight of handLEGERDEMAIN11Down18 FelineCAT3Down19 Expert pop star not being paidPROBONO7Down19 A place where you may get lost endlessly on a river.AMAZON6Down21 Italian wine region located in Umbria and Lazio, primarily known for its white winesORVIETO7Down22 It's spoken in Pakistan, half of Laos and oddly Hungary on top of thatLAHNDA6Down22 Initially not sure they're collections of 10sNYES4Down24 In Greek mythology, the wife of Theseus and the only Amazon known to have marriedANTIOPE7Down24 Historical wine region in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia declared a World Heritage Site in 2002TOKAJ5Down25 The most westerly lake in the Lake District National ParkENNERDALEWATER14Down26 First name of Frodo Baggins's father in J R R Tolkien's writingsDROGO5Down28 American actress who is the mother of actress Gwyneth PaltrowBLYTHEDANNER12Down31 Best Actor Oscar-winner for To Kill a MockingbirdGREGORYPECK11Down33 British painter who was a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia WoolfVANESSABELL11Down34 Rugby Union player who traditionally wears number 9SCRUMHALF9Down36 A text written for and set to music in an operaLIBRETTO8Down39 Robert ___, English poet who married Elizabeth BarrettBROWNING8Down42 US state whose capital is Jefferson CityMISSOURI8Down43 French luxury cosmetics company founded by a medical student in 1954CLARINS7Down44 Ronald ___, 40th president of the USREAGAN6Down45 Two-fingered chocolate product launched by Mars Inc. in 1967TWIX4Down48

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, January 31, 2026. 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.