The Independent Crossword August 2 2025 Answers

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Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 2 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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Subject of Geography left out for a term …41 AcrossReveal answer → Cattle41 AcrossReveal answer → Frail43 AcrossReveal answer → … which sees head becoming Latin master ...43 AcrossReveal answer → … but English covering the last lessons of History?46 AcrossReveal answer → White fur67 AcrossReveal answer → Bivalve mollusc68 AcrossReveal answer → Honest (Informal)109 AcrossReveal answer → Space for Divinity to provide income710 AcrossReveal answer → A cross section of an aileron, wing, tailplane or rotor blade810 AcrossReveal answer → Position of fascists in the past - it’s a mixed bag711 AcrossReveal answer → Trinket611 AcrossReveal answer → The greyish-brown larva of certain craneflies, especially of the genus Tipula1312 AcrossReveal answer → Chaos of latest police blackout1212 AcrossReveal answer → Clever or witty remark (French)613 AcrossReveal answer → Intentional1014 AcrossReveal answer → The North American plant Polemonium caeruleum1214 AcrossReveal answer → Curries regularly kept by French to have later815 AcrossReveal answer → The garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion1015 AcrossReveal answer → Make Manx soldiers dedicated to duty616 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, an Athenian architect who made wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee Crete816 AcrossReveal answer → City in California near Los Angeles famous for film stars' homes1217 AcrossReveal answer → Ill will618 AcrossReveal answer → Health centre619 AcrossReveal answer → England’s back batting twice before finally bowling and taking lunch619 AcrossReveal answer → Massive fan of Italian cheese - if it’s brought back for me820 AcrossReveal answer → Skin irritation420 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Bogotá821 AcrossReveal answer → Amphibian421 AcrossReveal answer → Scrappy win was eighth attempt at covering up problems1222 AcrossReveal answer → 1964 Richard Lester film featuring The Beatles1424 AcrossReveal answer → Sister introduces a discontented combative daughter as ‘a bit different’725 AcrossReveal answer → State of Virginia getting new union at university726 AcrossReveal answer → Outer layer in between radius and diameter…427 AcrossReveal answer → Real surname of the children's author Dr Seuss627 AcrossReveal answer → … minus end and start of great circle …428 AcrossReveal answer → … needs 21st in series for one part of 21?429 AcrossReveal answer → In the British Army, a member of the senior regiment of infantry in the Household Brigade929 AcrossReveal answer → F R ___, English literary critic whose books include The Great Tradition and The Common Pursuit631 AcrossReveal answer → Industrial city in NW France that is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region432 AcrossReveal answer → French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 18621334 AcrossReveal answer → The original matter from which the basic elements are said to have been formed in the big bang theory436 AcrossReveal answer → A port and resort in Emilia-Romagna on Italy's Adriatic coast637 AcrossReveal answer → In imperial Rome, the academy of learning established near the Forum in about 135 AD by Hadrian938 AcrossReveal answer → Play by Alfred Jarry that opened and closed in Paris on December 10, 1896640 AcrossReveal answer → Poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses1442 AcrossReveal answer → The first feature-length computer animated film844 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 comedy war film starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor and Donald Sutherland1246 AcrossReveal answer → Yellow mineral that is an ore of arsenic849 AcrossReveal answer → A coarse cut of beef below the aitchbone and above the leg1053 AcrossReveal answer → 1999 Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp, loosely based on an 1820 short story by Washington Irving1256 AcrossReveal answer → Neil Diamond song inspired by John F Kennedy's daughter1357 AcrossReveal answer → American actor best known for his performances in 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront and The Exorcist858 AcrossReveal answer →

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Responsibility of The Guardian to illustrate reflectively41 DownReveal answer → City in Afghanistan on the Hari Rud River51 DownReveal answer → NCO81 DownReveal answer → Badly want to displace Conservative party42 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Denver82 DownReveal answer → Narrow middle part52 DownReveal answer → The secret intelligence service of Israel63 DownReveal answer → Cowboy film73 DownReveal answer → Several44 DownReveal answer → A heavy powerful breed of carthorse, originally from Scotland104 DownReveal answer → Some nerve - keeping time like a diva84 DownReveal answer → Erase65 DownReveal answer → Fried fish starter, battered to provide contrast65 DownReveal answer → The capital of Croatia65 DownReveal answer → A sacred Hindu text composed around 200 BC whose name means 'song of the Blessed One'126 DownReveal answer → Hemispherical roof46 DownReveal answer → Look and place letter R down first (it's representative of King)146 DownReveal answer → The administrative capital of South Africa87 DownReveal answer → Think again about scattering paper on hike107 DownReveal answer → Put out hip brought together with nice manoeuvring internally148 DownReveal answer → The second largest town on Isle of Man68 DownReveal answer → The only league on Earth49 DownReveal answer → Eminem song that topped the UK charts in December 200049 DownReveal answer → Author810 DownReveal answer → John ___, manager of West Ham United from 1974 to 1989, and of Ipswich Town from 1990 to 1994511 DownReveal answer → Stain712 DownReveal answer → Whiten613 DownReveal answer → One used to spell with with with with413 DownReveal answer → Novel by Rudyard Kipling about the orphaned son of an Irish soldier313 DownReveal answer → Scent of female led soldier to get brief attack of nerves1014 DownReveal answer → Notion415 DownReveal answer → Similar516 DownReveal answer → Tense417 DownReveal answer → Extended overhaul to maintain big ends417 DownReveal answer → Get money from the rich? Ultimately the opposite here818 DownReveal answer → 1928 jazz standard recorded by Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Stéphane Grappelli, Frank Sinatra and many more918 DownReveal answer → 1874 play by Victorien Sardou for which Jacques Offenbach wrote incidental music719 DownReveal answer → The capital of Togo420 DownReveal answer → Run after one across the boundary here!621 DownReveal answer → Opportunity to get 33% reduction in unwanted gas422 DownReveal answer → Plucked musical instrument, usually with a triangular body and three strings, used chiefly for Russian folk music922 DownReveal answer → Obama extremely content to leave Honolulu where it is423 DownReveal answer → The state capital of Maine723 DownReveal answer → Held on, ignoring the cold for a breather424 DownReveal answer → King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy925 DownReveal answer → The former name, until 1982, of Harare926 DownReveal answer → District of Manila that gives its name to one of Spain's best-selling beers928 DownReveal answer → Item of camping equipment often placed under a sleeping bag for comfort and insulation730 DownReveal answer → City in Kansas of which Wild Bill Hickok was marshal from April to December in 1871733 DownReveal answer → 1924 song performed by, among others, Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film Casablanca and Diane Keaton in the 1977 film Annie Hall1235 DownReveal answer → 1952 novel by John Steinbeck featuring the Trasks and the Hamiltons1039 DownReveal answer → The annual malvaceous plant Hibiscus esculentus, also known as ladies’ fingers441 DownReveal answer → Latin hymn of the 13th century, describing the Last Judgment, used in the Mass for the dead843 DownReveal answer → Left-arm spinner who took 174 wickets in 49 Tests for England845 DownReveal answer → A wine-based cocktail commonly served as an aperitif in Northeast Italy, often made with Aperol, Campari or Cynar647 DownReveal answer → The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinus648 DownReveal answer → The dark circular aperture at the centre of the iris of the eye, through which light enters550 DownReveal answer → Gustav ___, Austrian composer and conductor whose works include Das Lied von der Erde and the song cycle Kindertotenlieder651 DownReveal answer → American pop singer whose 60s hits included Rubber Ball, Take Good Care Of My Baby and The Night Has A Thousand Eyes852 DownReveal answer → First name of Ingrid Bergman's character in the film Casablanca454 DownReveal answer → See 52855 DownReveal answer →

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