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The Independent Crossword August 18 2025 Answers

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Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 18 2025 answers. The Monday puzzle has 114 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Son studying about pressure and expansion?SPREADING9Across1 ReverenceAWE3Across1 Mild exclamation (US informal)GEE3Across3 Hidden store of money an auditor noticesCACHE5Across6 Chirping insectCICADA6Across7 Root vegetableTURNIP6Across8 Awfully prim guest is surly in the extremeGRUMPIEST9Across9 ThicknessDENSITY7Across9 Quiet piece of music without intro soprano humsPONGS5Across10 South African region on the Indian Ocean whose chief town is EshoweZULULAND8Across11 BeneathUNDER5Across11 Big cat of little weightOUNCE5Across11 Italian painter and architect whose paintings include the Sistine MadonnaRAPHAEL7Across12 Those possibly pumped to take a shot?AIRRIFLES9Across12 Grass-eatingHERBIVOROUS11Across13 Where one finds detectives screening Old BillINVOICE7Across13 ToothMOLAR5Across14 Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and DerainFAUVES6Across14 PlunderRANSACK7Across15 Small triangular pastries whose name is Russian for 'little pies'PIROZHKI8Across15 Conservative dons left in high spiritsEXCITED7Across15 British naval commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsHORATIONELSON13Across16 Proverb credited to Desiderius Erasmus's Adagia of 1500INTHEKINGDOMOFTHEBLINDTHEONEEYEDMANISKING41Across17 To sum up, one with new pants will get end awayINBRIEF7Across18 Worker in clayPOTTER6Across18 MinorLESSER6Across19 Do what's expected of prisoner with recordCONFORM7Across20 Snooker stickCUE3Across21 One beaten in spades by underarm bowlingSNAREDRUM9Across21 GratuityTIP3Across22 A writer hugging small treeASPEN5Across23 A short jacket worn by women and children in the early 19th centurySPENCER7Across23 Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wingsKITE4Across24 Ace record from celebrityALIST5Across25 1995 James Bond film starring Pierce BrosnanGOLDENEYE9Across25 After relinquishing power, bear old PMADDINGTON9Across26 American author and cartoonist best known for The Secret Life of Walter MittyJAMESTHURBER12Across27 I must get hands around inveterate singletonLONER5Across27 Debauchery in 80s perhaps pleasant, I expressedDECADENCE9Across28 American TV series about the survivors of a plane crashLOST4Across29 British prime minister from 2007 to 2010GORDONBROWN11Across30 Skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glandsACNE4Across32 New town in Buckinghamshire founded in 1967MILTONKEYNES12Across34 See 17INTHEKINGDOMOFTHEBLINDTHEONEEYEDMANISKING41Across37 County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is CastlebarMAYO4Across40 Debut single by the Spice Girls that topped the UK singles charts for seven weeks in 1996WANNABE7Across41 City in New Jersey mentioned in the title of Bruce Springsteen's 1973 debut albumASBURYPARK10Across44 Popular song by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson published in 1910 and first recorded by The Peerless QuartetLETMECALLYOUSWEETHEART22Across46 British novelist whose works include ClayhangerARNOLDBENNETT13Across50 An epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunctionOXYMORON8Across52 Character played by fictional actor Rainier Wolfcastle in The SimpsonsMCBAIN6Across54 Character in Greek mythology who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinthARIADNE7Across55 American actor best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford in Rebel Without a CauseSALMINEO8Across56

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Young Italian men in irons GI set freeSIGNORINI9Down1 Asian tree whose fruit has an offensive smell but a pleasant tasteDURIAN6Down1 TolerateABIDE5Down1 Regret drinking ordinary and ultimately rotten portROUEN5Down2 House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert AdamLUTONHOO8Down2 AgeERA3Down2 Mixologist's alpine tip for cocktail?APPLETINI9Down3 Courage (Informal)GUTS4Down3 Biblical city of the Philistine from which Goliath cameGATH4Down3 WrongERRONEOUS9Down4 Island gallery in which Queen perform againITERATE7Down4 English film director whose films include Flashdance, Fatal Attraction and Indecent ProposalADRIANLYNE10Down4 Plant whose varieties are pollinated by different insectsORCHID6Down5 Team leaderCAPTAIN7Down5 Corporation that's hosting extremely hyper singerGUTHRIE7Down5 1664 comedy by MolièreTARTUFFE8Down6 Arm muscleBICEPS6Down6 Holiday destination beset by manic AprilCAPRI5Down6 The Muse of history in Greek mythologyCLIO4Down7 Italian painter travelling on cattle around areaCANALETTO9Down7 Stop polishing off Coke and Southern ComfortsEASES5Down8 The placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus following delivery of a babyAFTERBIRTH10Down8 Breakfast cereal developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-BennerMUESLI6Down9 A 1967 Top Ten hit for the Four TopsBERNADETTE10Down10 Ironically mockingSARCASTIC9Down10 CompletelyTOTALLY7Down12 Bad luckHOODOO6Down13 In Greek legend, the lover of ThisbePYRAMUS7Down13 Six heading to Burma and helping in quakeVIBRATION9Down14 InexpensiveCHEAP5Down16 I dance not wildly, showing self-controlCONTAINED9Down16 Minister splits parties over drug controlDOMINANCE9Down17 Soft white cheeseBRIE4Down17 Village in Staffordshire that is home to a university founded in 1949KEELE5Down18 Tool used for cutting metalHACKSAW7Down19 Belligerent Dutch strikerFORWARD7Down19 Funny, but firm physicianCOMEDIC7Down20 Habitual drunkardSOT3Down20 Cops finally arrest one hiding in home?SNAIL5Down21 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of MindHEGEL5Down21 Holy festival not ultimately pious, one scoffsEATER5Down22 The capital of SaxonyDRESDEN7Down22 Pakistan's largest cityKARACHI7Down24 President Trump finally gets Utah homePUTIN5Down24 Kingdom in southern Africa whose capital is MaseruLESOTHO7Down26 The Roman god of doorways, passages and bridges, depicted with two heads facing opposite waysJANUS5Down27 A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates over tuned metal resonatorsMARIMBA7Down28 One of the fictional nations in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-FourOCEANIA7Down31 Mountain in the Bernese Alps, rising to a height of 3970mEIGER5Down33 Short opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo first performed in Milan in 1892IPAGLIACCI10Down35 Country whose capital is WellingtonNEWZEALAND10Down36 1981 novel by James Clavell set in Hong Kong in 1963NOBLEHOUSE10Down38 A small marine food fish of the NE Atlantic Ocean and the North SeaSPRAT5Down39 Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of GibraltarATLANTIS8Down42 City in Sudan at which the Mahdi defeated a British and Egyptian army in 1883ELOBEID7Down43 The administrative capital of South AfricaPRETORIA8Down45 Another name for boraxTINCAL6Down47 The former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyreSUTTEE6Down48 The largest of the Dodecanese islandsRHODES6Down49 1918 play by Bertolt BrechtBAAL4Down51 Ivy League university founded in 1701YALE4Down53

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, August 18, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.