The Independent Crossword August 18 2025 Answers

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Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 18 2025. 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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Son studying about pressure and expansion?91 AcrossReveal answer → Reverence31 AcrossReveal answer → Mild exclamation (US informal)33 AcrossReveal answer → Hidden store of money an auditor notices56 AcrossReveal answer → Chirping insect67 AcrossReveal answer → Root vegetable68 AcrossReveal answer → Awfully prim guest is surly in the extreme99 AcrossReveal answer → Thickness79 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet piece of music without intro soprano hums510 AcrossReveal answer → South African region on the Indian Ocean whose chief town is Eshowe811 AcrossReveal answer → Beneath511 AcrossReveal answer → Big cat of little weight511 AcrossReveal answer → Italian painter and architect whose paintings include the Sistine Madonna712 AcrossReveal answer → Those possibly pumped to take a shot?912 AcrossReveal answer → Grass-eating1113 AcrossReveal answer → Where one finds detectives screening Old Bill713 AcrossReveal answer → Tooth514 AcrossReveal answer → Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain614 AcrossReveal answer → Plunder715 AcrossReveal answer → Small triangular pastries whose name is Russian for 'little pies'815 AcrossReveal answer → Conservative dons left in high spirits715 AcrossReveal answer → British naval commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars1316 AcrossReveal answer → Proverb credited to Desiderius Erasmus's Adagia of 15004117 AcrossReveal answer → To sum up, one with new pants will get end away718 AcrossReveal answer → Worker in clay618 AcrossReveal answer → Minor619 AcrossReveal answer → Do what's expected of prisoner with record720 AcrossReveal answer → Snooker stick321 AcrossReveal answer → One beaten in spades by underarm bowling921 AcrossReveal answer → Gratuity322 AcrossReveal answer → A writer hugging small tree523 AcrossReveal answer → A short jacket worn by women and children in the early 19th century723 AcrossReveal answer → Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wings424 AcrossReveal answer → Ace record from celebrity525 AcrossReveal answer → 1995 James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan925 AcrossReveal answer → After relinquishing power, bear old PM926 AcrossReveal answer → American author and cartoonist best known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1227 AcrossReveal answer → I must get hands around inveterate singleton527 AcrossReveal answer → Debauchery in 80s perhaps pleasant, I expressed928 AcrossReveal answer → American TV series about the survivors of a plane crash429 AcrossReveal answer → British prime minister from 2007 to 20101130 AcrossReveal answer → Skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands432 AcrossReveal answer → New town in Buckinghamshire founded in 19671234 AcrossReveal answer → See 174137 AcrossReveal answer → County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Castlebar440 AcrossReveal answer → Debut single by the Spice Girls that topped the UK singles charts for seven weeks in 1996741 AcrossReveal answer → City in New Jersey mentioned in the title of Bruce Springsteen's 1973 debut album1044 AcrossReveal answer → Popular song by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson published in 1910 and first recorded by The Peerless Quartet2246 AcrossReveal answer → British novelist whose works include Clayhanger1350 AcrossReveal answer → An epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction852 AcrossReveal answer → Character played by fictional actor Rainier Wolfcastle in The Simpsons654 AcrossReveal answer → Character in Greek mythology who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth755 AcrossReveal answer → American actor best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford in Rebel Without a Cause856 AcrossReveal answer →

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Young Italian men in irons GI set free91 DownReveal answer → Asian tree whose fruit has an offensive smell but a pleasant taste61 DownReveal answer → Tolerate51 DownReveal answer → Regret drinking ordinary and ultimately rotten port52 DownReveal answer → House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam82 DownReveal answer → Age32 DownReveal answer → Mixologist's alpine tip for cocktail?93 DownReveal answer → Courage (Informal)43 DownReveal answer → Biblical city of the Philistine from which Goliath came43 DownReveal answer → Wrong94 DownReveal answer → Island gallery in which Queen perform again74 DownReveal answer → English film director whose films include Flashdance, Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal104 DownReveal answer → Plant whose varieties are pollinated by different insects65 DownReveal answer → Team leader75 DownReveal answer → Corporation that's hosting extremely hyper singer75 DownReveal answer → 1664 comedy by Molière86 DownReveal answer → Arm muscle66 DownReveal answer → Holiday destination beset by manic April56 DownReveal answer → The Muse of history in Greek mythology47 DownReveal answer → Italian painter travelling on cattle around area97 DownReveal answer → Stop polishing off Coke and Southern Comforts58 DownReveal answer → The placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus following delivery of a baby108 DownReveal answer → Breakfast cereal developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner69 DownReveal answer → A 1967 Top Ten hit for the Four Tops1010 DownReveal answer → Ironically mocking910 DownReveal answer → Completely712 DownReveal answer → Bad luck613 DownReveal answer → In Greek legend, the lover of Thisbe713 DownReveal answer → Six heading to Burma and helping in quake914 DownReveal answer → Inexpensive516 DownReveal answer → I dance not wildly, showing self-control916 DownReveal answer → Minister splits parties over drug control917 DownReveal answer → Soft white cheese417 DownReveal answer → Village in Staffordshire that is home to a university founded in 1949518 DownReveal answer → Tool used for cutting metal719 DownReveal answer → Belligerent Dutch striker719 DownReveal answer → Funny, but firm physician720 DownReveal answer → Habitual drunkard320 DownReveal answer → Cops finally arrest one hiding in home?521 DownReveal answer → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of Mind521 DownReveal answer → Holy festival not ultimately pious, one scoffs522 DownReveal answer → The capital of Saxony722 DownReveal answer → Pakistan's largest city724 DownReveal answer → President Trump finally gets Utah home524 DownReveal answer → Kingdom in southern Africa whose capital is Maseru726 DownReveal answer → The Roman god of doorways, passages and bridges, depicted with two heads facing opposite ways527 DownReveal answer → A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates over tuned metal resonators728 DownReveal answer → One of the fictional nations in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four731 DownReveal answer → Mountain in the Bernese Alps, rising to a height of 3970m533 DownReveal answer → Short opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo first performed in Milan in 18921035 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Wellington1036 DownReveal answer → 1981 novel by James Clavell set in Hong Kong in 19631038 DownReveal answer → A small marine food fish of the NE Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea539 DownReveal answer → Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar842 DownReveal answer → City in Sudan at which the Mahdi defeated a British and Egyptian army in 1883743 DownReveal answer → The administrative capital of South Africa845 DownReveal answer → Another name for borax647 DownReveal answer → The former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre648 DownReveal answer → The largest of the Dodecanese islands649 DownReveal answer → 1918 play by Bertolt Brecht451 DownReveal answer → Ivy League university founded in 1701453 DownReveal answer →

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