The Independent Crossword April 25 2026 Answers

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Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for April 25 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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Tall grass stalk41 AcrossReveal answer → Church passageway53 AcrossReveal answer → Fury47 AcrossReveal answer → We had initially identified the camouflaged bird97 AcrossReveal answer → Sufficient88 AcrossReveal answer → Roman procurator of Judaea who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus139 AcrossReveal answer → Discovered large American pheasant59 AcrossReveal answer → Linked109 AcrossReveal answer → Vehicle from 60s I turned behind abruptly711 AcrossReveal answer → Headgear made from fruit worn by dancer originally712 AcrossReveal answer → Imposed settlement612 AcrossReveal answer → The common European bird Pyrrhula pyrrhula912 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely hazy about program's content513 AcrossReveal answer → Modernise613 AcrossReveal answer → Clear out messy desk and go off914 AcrossReveal answer → The first woman, according to the Old Testament314 AcrossReveal answer → A short piece of instrumental music that is improvisatory915 AcrossReveal answer → Toy weapon1015 AcrossReveal answer → Port in Liguria that is the chief naval base in Italy816 AcrossReveal answer → Stockholder is ready for business, withholding nothing316 AcrossReveal answer → Swedish-born actor whose films include The Exorcist and Star Wars: The Force Awakens1117 AcrossReveal answer → Wedding day ultimately ruined after bride's heart rejected somewhere in Wales717 AcrossReveal answer → Spiteful818 AcrossReveal answer → American painter, printmaker and filmmaker who claimed that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"1018 AcrossReveal answer → Some military advisors lying about global revolution319 AcrossReveal answer → Small nail420 AcrossReveal answer → Research facility in front of assembly plant produces white mineral920 AcrossReveal answer → Cosmetics company founded in 1904 that was acquired by L'Oréal in the 1970s720 AcrossReveal answer → Root vegetable521 AcrossReveal answer → Word or phrase in which the letters of another word or phrase are rearranged721 AcrossReveal answer → Open letter to the French president from Émile Zola accusing the French government of anti-Semitism in the jailing of Alfred Dreyfus722 AcrossReveal answer → States opposed banning latest drug522 AcrossReveal answer → Ballet leap422 AcrossReveal answer → More annoyed in rage rambling and raving at first723 AcrossReveal answer → Covering that is primarily shielding workers in the Arctic725 AcrossReveal answer → Jesse ___, Grammy award-winning American bluegrass mandolin player who has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 19641026 AcrossReveal answer → Cow is close to dead and extremely thin - not good527 AcrossReveal answer → Essentially downy, we float freely around river?928 AcrossReveal answer → Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 19921129 AcrossReveal answer → Gog ___ Downs, range of low chalk hills south east of Cambridge532 AcrossReveal answer → English Renaissance dramatist whose satirical plays include The Alchemist934 AcrossReveal answer → Cathedral city in North Yorkshire whose racecourse hosted Britain's first horse race for female jockeys in 1723535 AcrossReveal answer → Croatian-born electrical engineer who discovered the principles of alternating currents1136 AcrossReveal answer → Anton Chekhov play that received its Moscow première in 1899 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski1037 AcrossReveal answer → Elf in J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings played by Orlando Bloom in Peter Jackson's film series739 AcrossReveal answer → Members of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon1441 AcrossReveal answer → North Devon seaside resort whose harbour is overlooked by Hillsborough Hill1047 AcrossReveal answer → Area of a football pitch also known as the 18-yard box1150 AcrossReveal answer → North American tree also called an ash-leaved maple852 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 film starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy, set during the last days of the Nicaraguan revolution953 AcrossReveal answer → Acronym for a set of protocols enabling mobile phones and other radio devices to be connected to the Internet354 AcrossReveal answer → Dieterich ___, Danish composer and organist who influenced Bach and Handel955 AcrossReveal answer → First three words of a well-known acronym for the sequence of colours in a rainbow1356 AcrossReveal answer →

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Went by water and set up traps41 DownReveal answer → Novel by Harper Lee published in July 2015141 DownReveal answer → Quantity of paper41 DownReveal answer → British art rock band whose albums include Friend's Friend's Friend and The House on the Hill82 DownReveal answer → Grunting beast rising up to capture small insect and a large mammal102 DownReveal answer → Stylish72 DownReveal answer → Nice and sore after gym class63 DownReveal answer → Brass instrument pitched in E flat developed in the 1840s by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax83 DownReveal answer → Mimic33 DownReveal answer → British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp54 DownReveal answer → Steam bath54 DownReveal answer → Reliable striking king is fit to serve?64 DownReveal answer → Grooved wheels that have a rope or cable threaded between them in a block and tackle75 DownReveal answer → Plea85 DownReveal answer → Post also covering Northern Territory85 DownReveal answer → The largest state of the US66 DownReveal answer → Artificially-high singing voice86 DownReveal answer → Indian city featured in paragraph46 DownReveal answer → Home of Saul, the first king of Israel, in the Old Testament67 DownReveal answer → Greek hero who was killed by Paris, who wounded him in the heel88 DownReveal answer → English spymaster heading fishy mission?78 DownReveal answer → Politeness810 DownReveal answer → Surbiton street in which the Goods and the Leadbetters live in the sitcom The Good Life910 DownReveal answer → With an empty stomach, she of course eats plain trimmed ones on a roll910 DownReveal answer → Indefatigable811 DownReveal answer → Caribbean evergreen tree whose fruit has sweet yellow edible flesh and small black seeds611 DownReveal answer → West African republic bordered by Senegal to the north1213 DownReveal answer → Random answer in a pub quiz's last difficult round913 DownReveal answer → Long-lasting714 DownReveal answer → Australian music producer performed cover of Grease free on discs1015 DownReveal answer → Product of combustion516 DownReveal answer → Government spies constrained by recent freeze817 DownReveal answer → Snack bar417 DownReveal answer → Bears heading off in the distance we hear718 DownReveal answer → Lyric poem319 DownReveal answer → Common name for the toxic defoliant used by the US military during the Vietnam War1119 DownReveal answer → Cast personnel in Hamilton?621 DownReveal answer → Classify official document missing a couple of pages622 DownReveal answer → Merseyside village best known as the home of the Grand National723 DownReveal answer → The hindquarters of a quadruped, especially a horse524 DownReveal answer → Swallow starts to glide low under gazebo424 DownReveal answer → Island municipality in the Philippines known as "The Hidden Gem of Quezon"625 DownReveal answer → Listener's very depressed and alone426 DownReveal answer → Plant genus that includes love-in-a-mist727 DownReveal answer → 1972 Neil Diamond hit song inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #211228 DownReveal answer → Japanese manufacturer of photographic equipment that merged with Minolta in 2003630 DownReveal answer → Bolton Wanderers and England inside right credited with scoring the first ever Football League goal, in September 18881431 DownReveal answer → Gordon ___, character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel533 DownReveal answer → Roman road from Rome to Brindisi begun in 312 BC938 DownReveal answer → A speech addressed to the audience by an actor at the end of a play840 DownReveal answer → Welsh village that hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1928, the only time it has been held in the Rhondda842 DownReveal answer → First published work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard844 DownReveal answer → See 511845 DownReveal answer → Port city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, home of the statue Pania of the Reef646 DownReveal answer → Model of car manufactured by Ford from 1976648 DownReveal answer → Pub rock band from Essex whose biggest hit, Do Anything You Wanna Do, was released under a shortened version of their name1851 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, April 25, 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.