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The Independent Crossword October 12 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 55 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 12 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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Perhaps after 45 hostilities between Royal Mail and UPS?71 AcrossReveal answer → Grow old31 AcrossReveal answer → Scots man's name33 AcrossReveal answer → Understand35 AcrossReveal answer → Tighten band75 AcrossReveal answer → Lawbreaker87 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive48 AcrossReveal answer → Special police officers drinking last of booze in short glasses59 AcrossReveal answer → Strict in moral outlook119 AcrossReveal answer → Go and see Australia from the east first like Steve Irwin!910 AcrossReveal answer → Green patina911 AcrossReveal answer → Pay certain crackpot, no matter the cost1011 AcrossReveal answer → Honey bees consume one fourth of honey412 AcrossReveal answer → Feat accomplished by one lady who came first ahead of guys in boat missing prow1114 AcrossReveal answer → Agree1115 AcrossReveal answer → Stop417 AcrossReveal answer → Offhand818 AcrossReveal answer → RP's OK. Ugh! One is upset when language is like this1118 AcrossReveal answer → Cover320 AcrossReveal answer → Dark viscid substance321 AcrossReveal answer → March by lieutenant, the jerk!421 AcrossReveal answer → Wager322 AcrossReveal answer → A hard sweet for a hard palate maybe?1022 AcrossReveal answer → Gas that's heavier than normal extracted from inside uteri/umbilici925 AcrossReveal answer → Shut up! Stuffy square!526 AcrossReveal answer → Greeting bishop in doorway to show727 AcrossReveal answer → In vehicle Mama remains728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Curt61 DownReveal answer → Quietly losing his head scoundrel is under a degree of pressure61 DownReveal answer → Clock now, and in the past, is something which oscillates62 DownReveal answer → Tree32 DownReveal answer → With one throw, twice as weak?103 DownReveal answer → Set alight73 DownReveal answer → One increasing the bet is said to be a cut-throat54 DownReveal answer → Man-made material54 DownReveal answer → A random test that a dermatologist might do95 DownReveal answer → Enticing95 DownReveal answer → Knowing about voucher with one third off46 DownReveal answer → Make possible66 DownReveal answer → What Sex Pistols were paid for 3 months in Holloway venue87 DownReveal answer → Request to dine in foyer88 DownReveal answer → Voted in again910 DownReveal answer → Recover from712 DownReveal answer → Beset613 DownReveal answer → It strengthens control over police, right?1013 DownReveal answer → Overcome614 DownReveal answer → Svengali's first to try to suppress odd bits of psyche in regression915 DownReveal answer → Sailing vessel516 DownReveal answer → Under pressure, Barnaby's admitting English justice means to try without evidence816 DownReveal answer → Leave coat by Irish lake817 DownReveal answer → One's open to change having a lack of inspiration619 DownReveal answer → Throw in a high arc319 DownReveal answer → Pants made from woven fibres620 DownReveal answer → French poet rejected spice523 DownReveal answer → Robert Alpert's marijuana424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, October 12, 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.