The Independent Crossword January 6 2024 Answers

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Below are all 120 clues from the The Independent Crossword for January 6 2024. 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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Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 177991 AcrossReveal answer → Distant31 AcrossReveal answer → Black day after detective's put out of action81 AcrossReveal answer → Draw tight63 AcrossReveal answer → See farming implement picked up, one that's cold and tapered65 AcrossReveal answer → Musical time in which there are four beats in each bar136 AcrossReveal answer → Sea mammal78 AcrossReveal answer → Cotton thread59 AcrossReveal answer → When do the lights go on? It's almost time510 AcrossReveal answer → Felt thankful for1110 AcrossReveal answer → Fancy booze knocked back with salt911 AcrossReveal answer → Webinar broadcast inspires a very brilliant idea912 AcrossReveal answer → Restricting rope612 AcrossReveal answer → J R R Tolkien's third forename513 AcrossReveal answer → What covers painting? Dirt513 AcrossReveal answer → Tropical lizard613 AcrossReveal answer → He's after unfinished fast food614 AcrossReveal answer → Hill near the village of Collace in Perthshire mentioned in Shakespeare's Macbeth914 AcrossReveal answer → Members of the senior branch of the Guides715 AcrossReveal answer → Made circumnavigation complete715 AcrossReveal answer → Top chess player1116 AcrossReveal answer → Queen consort of France 1137–1152 and queen consort of England 1154–11891816 AcrossReveal answer → A salmon up to two years of age418 AcrossReveal answer → Stiff drinks - they're often sought by darts players718 AcrossReveal answer → Furnish519 AcrossReveal answer → Type of table Director General takes home twice620 AcrossReveal answer → Comic actor nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy1020 AcrossReveal answer → Terse720 AcrossReveal answer → Turn down621 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician Richard Melville Hall421 AcrossReveal answer → Small rug322 AcrossReveal answer → A mountain? Don't be ridiculous!522 AcrossReveal answer → Stately home in North Yorkshire familiar to TV and movie audiences as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead Revisited1223 AcrossReveal answer → Any of a number of very small extremely dense stars first discovered in 1967624 AcrossReveal answer → One may be placed on a beach to monitor risk, according to Spooner924 AcrossReveal answer → Left rehab, and one deteriorated, to some extent925 AcrossReveal answer → Enormous jar, so it's said526 AcrossReveal answer → Surname of the Duke of Westminster926 AcrossReveal answer → Lead source of wind starts to nip away627 AcrossReveal answer → Tree of the genus Diospyros with hard dark wood527 AcrossReveal answer → City that is capital of the Thessaly periphery of Greece728 AcrossReveal answer → Starmer's struggling to produce bits of 7828 AcrossReveal answer → 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton's theatrical adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos1731 AcrossReveal answer → See 391234 AcrossReveal answer → Single by Ashford & Simpson that reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1985535 AcrossReveal answer → American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J Smith1737 AcrossReveal answer → West Indian batsman in the 1960s who ended his Test career in style with an innings of 258 at Christchurch1239 AcrossReveal answer → The legal capital of Bolivia540 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Hear'Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart942 AcrossReveal answer → See 231243 AcrossReveal answer → Poland's principal seaport on the Baltic coast646 AcrossReveal answer → The alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan, established in 1936447 AcrossReveal answer → Nicholas ___, British composer of the opera Sophie's Choice348 AcrossReveal answer → A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolves452 AcrossReveal answer → Poet Laureate from 1850 to 18921853 AcrossReveal answer → See 201056 AcrossReveal answer → The divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu, in Hindu mythology957 AcrossReveal answer → 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott558 AcrossReveal answer → One of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia, that thrived between the third and seventh centuries1359 AcrossReveal answer → French footballer whose Premier League clubs included Fulham, Manchester United, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur960 AcrossReveal answer →

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2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same name71 DownReveal answer → Name encapsulates a new European river61 DownReveal answer → Become less distinct41 DownReveal answer → American tennis player who was the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year152 DownReveal answer → Is upset by good quality autograph92 DownReveal answer → Dependent72 DownReveal answer → 1976 Mel Brooks film whose only audible line is spoken by Marcel Marceau113 DownReveal answer → Where you may find an Araucaria declaration bang out of order153 DownReveal answer → Vocalist63 DownReveal answer → Railway's vehicles124 DownReveal answer → Upgrade rear of battle tank in shelter74 DownReveal answer → George Michael's third studio album, released in 199654 DownReveal answer → 70s American TV series that starred David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine65 DownReveal answer → Place within55 DownReveal answer → Mince and potato dish126 DownReveal answer → The Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday136 DownReveal answer → Very nearly locating obscure rocks156 DownReveal answer → Progress77 DownReveal answer → Cleaner welcomes current president57 DownReveal answer → A slow musical movement such as the famous one from Mahler's Fifth Symphony featured in Luchino Visconti's film Death in Venice97 DownReveal answer → After start of equinox, definitely took ecstasy to provide protection against the sun88 DownReveal answer → East Sussex town at the confluence of the Rother, Tillingham and Brede rivers38 DownReveal answer → The job of a nurse is protecting everyone, first and foremost69 DownReveal answer → Umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated for its long whitish root79 DownReveal answer → Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls1010 DownReveal answer → The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangement711 DownReveal answer → Reel711 DownReveal answer → The Italian verb "to be"612 DownReveal answer → Word made from initials714 DownReveal answer → Small village615 DownReveal answer → Garment waste a wise man rejected916 DownReveal answer → Tex ___, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director whose creations include Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny517 DownReveal answer → The Scots wander about with peculiar gravitas817 DownReveal answer → Deep blue517 DownReveal answer → Rabbit's tail418 DownReveal answer → Confess about papers being biased619 DownReveal answer → Former British coin worth two shillings in pre-decimal money619 DownReveal answer → Ref endlessly took risks over winning goal720 DownReveal answer → Free end of string instrument lifted621 DownReveal answer → English international goalkeeper who came out of retirement to help Wrexham secure promotion from the National League922 DownReveal answer → Ring encircling middle of spherical gem523 DownReveal answer → Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world's capital of perfume625 DownReveal answer → London-based record label launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons726 DownReveal answer → Name given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a928 DownReveal answer → Narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy1529 DownReveal answer → Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky730 DownReveal answer → Art movement that took its name from the title of an 1872 Claude Monet work1332 DownReveal answer → See 101033 DownReveal answer → Antonín ___, Czech composer best known for his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New World636 DownReveal answer → 1983 album by June Tabor1138 DownReveal answer → 1972 musical, with music by Jule Styne, based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot540 DownReveal answer → Indian city in the state of Uttar Pradesh known for producing mint oil941 DownReveal answer → Heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with linseed oil744 DownReveal answer → Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926745 DownReveal answer → ___ Judd, American country music singer born Christina Claire Ciminell in 1964749 DownReveal answer → A Muslim form of salutation consisting of a deep bow with the right palm on the forehead650 DownReveal answer → Village in Angus, Scotland, originally called Slateford651 DownReveal answer → One of Job's friends, descended from Nahor, in the Book of Job554 DownReveal answer → A large neck ring usually made from strands of metal twisted together455 DownReveal answer → Large nonvenomous snake that kills its prey by constriction357 DownReveal answer →

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