The Independent Crossword January 31 2026 Answers

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Below are all 105 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 31 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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Coffin stand41 AcrossReveal answer → Drag43 AcrossReveal answer → Amphibian47 AcrossReveal answer → Conjuror88 AcrossReveal answer → Range Rover’s number one - for radio operators this car will be next68 AcrossReveal answer → Puppet109 AcrossReveal answer → Head of entertainment, facing a charge, moves forward without fear89 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet male worker is overwhelming when game810 AcrossReveal answer → A sweet thing to find precious metal on doorway611 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young611 AcrossReveal answer → US conductor and composer who wrote the score of the musical West Side Story1612 AcrossReveal answer → Spring flower612 AcrossReveal answer → Damage for adult in gay magazine612 AcrossReveal answer → Garden tool613 AcrossReveal answer → Picnic's dessert has meat in it813 AcrossReveal answer → 1991 western comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance1214 AcrossReveal answer → Widespread flowering plant also known as a marguerite1015 AcrossReveal answer → Exaggerated sketch1015 AcrossReveal answer → Second-hand clothes that woman showed715 AcrossReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for Reversal of Fortune1116 AcrossReveal answer → The Biggest ___ in the World, 1928 song by Will E Haines, Jimmy Harper and Tommy Connor made famous by Gracie Fields1017 AcrossReveal answer → See 5 Down1517 AcrossReveal answer → Large amounts of money (Informal)818 AcrossReveal answer → Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in 2004719 AcrossReveal answer → Sergio ___, Argentine footballer whose 95th-minute goal in the last game of the season clinched the 2011-12 Premier League title for Manchester City620 AcrossReveal answer → Animal moving abroad in both directions820 AcrossReveal answer → Slightly open420 AcrossReveal answer → Midfielder who captained Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals821 AcrossReveal answer → Preliminary race421 AcrossReveal answer → What's left on a cemetery's borders622 AcrossReveal answer → Office table422 AcrossReveal answer → Bruno ___, German-born US conductor who championed the works of Gustav Mahler623 AcrossReveal answer → Noted German charioteer losing wheel623 AcrossReveal answer → Giant insects, one of them biting Henry825 AcrossReveal answer → God may be seen as model, I assume826 AcrossReveal answer → American rock band whose acoustic ballad More Than Words was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic726 AcrossReveal answer → Busy road blocked by enormous delivery627 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for a wood pigeon827 AcrossReveal answer → Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray is believed to have composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard1029 AcrossReveal answer → Actress best known for playing Angie Watts in EastEnders1130 AcrossReveal answer → See 291032 AcrossReveal answer → Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689835 AcrossReveal answer → A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type736 AcrossReveal answer → There are 100 in an Israeli shekel637 AcrossReveal answer → A disease caused by a dietary deficiency of nicotinic acid838 AcrossReveal answer → Pokémon species that evolves from Pikachu using the Thunder Stone in the Nintendo game series640 AcrossReveal answer → 2000 hit single for Tom Jones in collaboration with producer Mousse T741 AcrossReveal answer → English writer, notably for The Face magazine, and broadcaster whose books include The Way We Wore1045 AcrossReveal answer → Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in December 18791146 AcrossReveal answer → Courtyard in Chicago's main civic centre dominated by an untitled 50-foot steel sculpture by Pablo Picasso1047 AcrossReveal answer → English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist best known for playing Baldrick in the TV series Blackadder1248 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for the Nunc dimittis, often used as the final song in a religious service1649 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish market town made a Royal Burgh in 1140 by King David I650 AcrossReveal answer →

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Old Pope, born in Britain, not in Germany, rejecting tea we hear, also fresh fruit after short holidays181 DownReveal answer → Disease caused by dietary deficiency of thiamine81 DownReveal answer → Floating marker41 DownReveal answer → The cupbearer of the gods in Greek mythology82 DownReveal answer → Present in a localised area72 DownReveal answer → Singer may not always be the same when losing voice at the start63 DownReveal answer → English actor, comedian, musician and composer who first came to prominence in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe113 DownReveal answer → Embrace33 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra74 DownReveal answer → Male relative54 DownReveal answer → Union Jack raised by Reform MP after last of migrants will get what is fair74 DownReveal answer → Food of the gods85 DownReveal answer → For example Dutch PM, after consuming light meal, dismisses that person in education155 DownReveal answer → Song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian that was a top ten hit for Badfinger125 DownReveal answer → The fourth planet from the sun46 DownReveal answer → Cutlery box76 DownReveal answer → Dry, only letting in a minimum of rain46 DownReveal answer → General during the American Revolutionary War who plotted to surrender the fort at West Point to the British forces147 DownReveal answer → Appropriate greeting to sailor67 DownReveal answer → English radio and TV presenter and journalist who co-hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am from 1983 to 1989118 DownReveal answer → Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar89 DownReveal answer → Breed of Hungarian sporting dog similar to a Weimaraner610 DownReveal answer → Emotional eruption810 DownReveal answer → Inconsistent711 DownReveal answer → Spongy cake also known as a Scotch pancake913 DownReveal answer → Perform surgery714 DownReveal answer → Explosive stuff stored in Goodison, evacuated after second game1014 DownReveal answer → Animated explorer and daughter impressed by band from Birmingham, a place of fabulous wealth816 DownReveal answer → Fill516 DownReveal answer → Armoured vehicle417 DownReveal answer → Essential part of sweetcorn, and there's a lot more818 DownReveal answer → Another name for sleight of hand1118 DownReveal answer → Feline319 DownReveal answer → Expert pop star not being paid719 DownReveal answer → A place where you may get lost endlessly on a river.621 DownReveal answer → Italian wine region located in Umbria and Lazio, primarily known for its white wines722 DownReveal answer → It's spoken in Pakistan, half of Laos and oddly Hungary on top of that622 DownReveal answer → Initially not sure they're collections of 10s424 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the wife of Theseus and the only Amazon known to have married724 DownReveal answer → Historical wine region in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia declared a World Heritage Site in 2002525 DownReveal answer → The most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park1426 DownReveal answer → First name of Frodo Baggins's father in J R R Tolkien's writings528 DownReveal answer → American actress who is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow1231 DownReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for To Kill a Mockingbird1133 DownReveal answer → British painter who was a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia Woolf1134 DownReveal answer → Rugby Union player who traditionally wears number 9936 DownReveal answer → A text written for and set to music in an opera839 DownReveal answer → Robert ___, English poet who married Elizabeth Barrett842 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Jefferson City843 DownReveal answer → French luxury cosmetics company founded by a medical student in 1954744 DownReveal answer → Ronald ___, 40th president of the US645 DownReveal answer → Two-fingered chocolate product launched by Mars Inc. in 1967448 DownReveal answer →

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