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The Independent Crossword January 6 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 120 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword January 6 2024 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 120 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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Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779JAMESCOOK9Across1 DistantFAR3Across1 Black day after detective's put out of actionDISABLED8Across1 Draw tightSTRAIN6Across3 See farming implement picked up, one that's cold and taperedICICLE6Across5 Musical time in which there are four beats in each barQUADRUPLETIME13Across6 Sea mammalDOLPHIN7Across8 Cotton threadLISLE5Across9 When do the lights go on? It's almost timeNIGHT5Across10 Felt thankful forAPPRECIATED11Across10 Fancy booze knocked back with saltELABORATE9Across11 Webinar broadcast inspires a very brilliant ideaBRAINWAVE9Across12 Restricting ropeTETHER6Across12 J R R Tolkien's third forenameREUEL5Across13 What covers painting? DirtEARTH5Across13 Tropical lizardIGUANA6Across13 He's after unfinished fast foodQUICHE6Across14 Hill near the village of Collace in Perthshire mentioned in Shakespeare's MacbethDUNSINANE9Across14 Members of the senior branch of the GuidesRANGERS7Across15 Made circumnavigation completeROUNDED7Across15 Top chess playerGRANDMASTER11Across16 Queen consort of France 1137–1152 and queen consort of England 1154–1189ELEANOROFAQUITAINE18Across16 A salmon up to two years of agePARR4Across18 Stiff drinks - they're often sought by darts playersTREBLES7Across18 FurnishEQUIP5Across19 Type of table Director General takes home twiceDINING6Across20 Comic actor nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Driving Miss DaisyDANAYKROYD10Across20 TerseLACONIC7Across20 Turn downREJECT6Across21 Stage name of American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician Richard Melville HallMOBY4Across21 Small rugMAT3Across22 A mountain? Don't be ridiculous!ALPHA5Across22 Stately home in North Yorkshire familiar to TV and movie audiences as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead RevisitedCASTLEHOWARD12Across23 Any of a number of very small extremely dense stars first discovered in 1967PULSAR6Across24 One may be placed on a beach to monitor risk, according to SpoonerDECKCHAIR9Across24 Left rehab, and one deteriorated, to some extentABANDONED9Across25 Enormous jar, so it's saidGREAT5Across26 Surname of the Duke of WestminsterGROSVENOR9Across26 Lead source of wind starts to nip awayGALENA6Across27 Tree of the genus Diospyros with hard dark woodEBONY5Across27 City that is capital of the Thessaly periphery of GreeceLARISSA7Across28 Starmer's struggling to produce bits of 7ARMRESTS8Across28 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton's theatrical adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de LaclosDANGEROUSLIAISONS17Across31 See 39SEYMOURNURSE12Across34 Single by Ashford & Simpson that reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1985SOLID5Across35 American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J SmithTHEVAMPIREDIARIES17Across37 West Indian batsman in the 1960s who ended his Test career in style with an innings of 258 at ChristchurchSEYMOURNURSE12Across39 The legal capital of BoliviaSUCRE5Across40 Song by Hear'Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles ChartEVERYBODY9Across42 See 23CASTLEHOWARD12Across43 Poland's principal seaport on the Baltic coastGDANSK6Across46 The alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan, established in 1936AXIS4Across47 Nicholas ___, British composer of the opera Sophie's ChoiceMAW3Across48 A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolvesAXLE4Across52 Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892ALFREDLORDTENNYSON18Across53 See 20DANAYKROYD10Across56 The divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu, in Hindu mythologyBHUMIDEVI9Across57 1979 film directed by Ridley ScottALIEN5Across58 One of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia, that thrived between the third and seventh centuriesMANICHAEANISM13Across59 French footballer whose Premier League clubs included Fulham, Manchester United, Everton and Tottenham HotspurLOUISSAHA9Across60

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2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same nameJARHEAD7Down1 Name encapsulates a new European riverDANUBE6Down1 Become less distinctFADE4Down1 American tennis player who was the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar yearMAUREENCONNOLLY15Down2 Is upset by good quality autographSIGNATURE9Down2 DependentRELIANT7Down2 1976 Mel Brooks film whose only audible line is spoken by Marcel MarceauSILENTMOVIE11Down3 Where you may find an Araucaria declaration bang out of orderBOTANICALGARDEN15Down3 VocalistSINGER6Down3 Railway's vehiclesROLLINGSTOCK12Down4 Upgrade rear of battle tank in shelterELEVATE7Down4 George Michael's third studio album, released in 1996OLDER5Down4 70s American TV series that starred David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang CaineKUNGFU6Down5 Place withinINSET5Down5 Mince and potato dishSHEPHERDSPIE12Down6 The Sunday preceding Ash WednesdayQUINQUAGESIMA13Down6 Very nearly locating obscure rocksCLOSEBUTNOCIGAR15Down6 ProgressHEADWAY7Down7 Cleaner welcomes current presidentCHAIR5Down7 A slow musical movement such as the famous one from Mahler's Fifth Symphony featured in Luchino Visconti's film Death in VeniceADAGIETTO9Down7 After start of equinox, definitely took ecstasy to provide protection against the sunEYESHADE8Down8 East Sussex town at the confluence of the Rother, Tillingham and Brede riversRYE3Down8 The job of a nurse is protecting everyone, first and foremostCAREER6Down9 Umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated for its long whitish rootPARSNIP7Down9 Irish author whose novels include The Country GirlsEDNAOBRIEN10Down10 The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangementIKEBANA7Down11 ReelSTAGGER7Down11 The Italian verb "to be"ESSERE6Down12 Word made from initialsACRONYM7Down14 Small villageHAMLET6Down15 Garment waste a wise man rejectedDUNGAREES9Down16 Tex ___, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director whose creations include Daffy Duck and Bugs BunnyAVERY5Down17 The Scots wander about with peculiar gravitasSTRAVAIG8Down17 Deep blueAZURE5Down17 Rabbit's tailSCUT4Down18 Confess about papers being biasedSIDING6Down19 Former British coin worth two shillings in pre-decimal moneyFLORIN6Down19 Ref endlessly took risks over winning goalDECIDER7Down20 Free end of string instrument liftedGRATIS6Down21 English international goalkeeper who came out of retirement to help Wrexham secure promotion from the National LeagueBENFOSTER9Down22 Ring encircling middle of spherical gemPEARL5Down23 Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world's capital of perfumeGRASSE6Down25 London-based record label launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley SymonsGODISCS7Down26 Name given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81aLESADIEUX9Down28 Narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of ItalySTRAITOFMESSINA15Down29 Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of TchaikovskyARENSKY7Down30 Art movement that took its name from the title of an 1872 Claude Monet workIMPRESSIONISM13Down32 See 10EDNAOBRIEN10Down33 Antonín ___, Czech composer best known for his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New WorldDVORAK6Down36 1983 album by June TaborABYSSINIANS11Down38 1972 musical, with music by Jule Styne, based on the 1959 film Some Like It HotSUGAR5Down40 Indian city in the state of Uttar Pradesh known for producing mint oilCHANDAUSI9Down41 Heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with linseed oilOILSKIN7Down44 Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926DELEDDA7Down45 ___ Judd, American country music singer born Christina Claire Ciminell in 1964WYNONNA7Down49 A Muslim form of salutation consisting of a deep bow with the right palm on the foreheadSALAAM6Down50 Village in Angus, Scotland, originally called SlatefordEDZELL6Down51 One of Job's friends, descended from Nahor, in the Book of JobELIHU5Down54 A large neck ring usually made from strands of metal twisted togetherTORC4Down55 Large nonvenomous snake that kills its prey by constrictionBOA3Down57

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, January 6, 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.