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The Independent Crossword July 17 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 17 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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Former US President - R Reagan - mistakenly ignoring a backwoodsman101 AcrossReveal answer → Was victorious31 AcrossReveal answer → Watery part of milk43 AcrossReveal answer → Beer initially on verge of running out? Calamity46 AcrossReveal answer → Lack of coverage from tin spikes on board ship109 AcrossReveal answer → Surround79 AcrossReveal answer → Cow without tail? Nonsense410 AcrossReveal answer → Standpoint510 AcrossReveal answer → Board game511 AcrossReveal answer → Description of job, with story about cocaine - a remarkable thing911 AcrossReveal answer → Vie712 AcrossReveal answer → Climber1113 AcrossReveal answer → New take on music: bit of opera follows version, one in fashion916 AcrossReveal answer → Greatly surprise717 AcrossReveal answer → Green is erratic, partly reflecting amber?518 AcrossReveal answer → Box519 AcrossReveal answer → Attacker offing one horseman519 AcrossReveal answer → Failed battery starts to endanger substantial amounts of data920 AcrossReveal answer → Races including contest chasing American cars?921 AcrossReveal answer → Commerce521 AcrossReveal answer → Staying power722 AcrossReveal answer → Duty list423 AcrossReveal answer → Tree324 AcrossReveal answer → Dam that is put back in Western Region426 AcrossReveal answer → Fix a drink, getting US lawyer a cocktail1027 AcrossReveal answer → Elevated area cold? Skip the top428 AcrossReveal answer → Complain train’s getting rackety? Prepared to limit volume internally1029 AcrossReveal answer →

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Type of spanner61 DownReveal answer → Wild country? Public transport heading for home41 DownReveal answer → Mother-of-pearl52 DownReveal answer → Playwright’s maxim about hearts42 DownReveal answer → List eighteen letters in reverse order43 DownReveal answer → Note Spanish girl’s standard of perfection?54 DownReveal answer → Clean practices74 DownReveal answer → English more authoritarian about a person from the Orient95 DownReveal answer → Surrender55 DownReveal answer → Relative66 DownReveal answer → A name involved with this clue? Cape Canaveral, perhaps107 DownReveal answer → Goods117 DownReveal answer → Farm building48 DownReveal answer → Playwright with point about river and wasteland108 DownReveal answer → Beats first couple of thieves with sacks612 DownReveal answer → Government dispute blocking blatant hospital extension beyond limits1013 DownReveal answer → Survive714 DownReveal answer → Puritan translation of Latin is circumspect1014 DownReveal answer → South Africa’s composer turning up in Croatian city615 DownReveal answer → Sweet plant fluid615 DownReveal answer → Make still616 DownReveal answer → Interruption popular in tours? Wrong917 DownReveal answer → Change517 DownReveal answer → Second-hand418 DownReveal answer → Crop up520 DownReveal answer → Succeeded in blocking annoying emails in abrupt movement522 DownReveal answer → Court decision offering only opening for club423 DownReveal answer → Prison reporting not concluded424 DownReveal answer → Separate opportunity for actor425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, July 17, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.