Spotlight icon in menu bar has stopped responded

When I click the icon on the top right of the screen, nothing happens any more. I can still use Spotlight from the finder, but I'd prefer to use it via the icon.
Can anyone help, please?
Cheers
Phil

This happens to me and the only way to fix it is to run Onyx but this is only until you shut down or restart then it happens again. I rang apple who said dump the pref run FSCK etc etc but it still happens, when Onyx fixes it Spotlight then re indexes

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