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The Independent Crossword August 22 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 22 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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Quick look initially forgotten, probing historic rewritten document101 AcrossReveal answer → Rod41 AcrossReveal answer → Be in debt33 AcrossReveal answer → Sacred and hitherto largely seen in extreme instances46 AcrossReveal answer → Souvenir87 AcrossReveal answer → Provoke48 AcrossReveal answer → Rustic79 AcrossReveal answer → English town turned out to be within borders of London510 AcrossReveal answer → Live broadcast of cities accepting King’s truce911 AcrossReveal answer → Cut off511 AcrossReveal answer → Instant addition to communication shows muscle712 AcrossReveal answer → Notice vehicle impounded by LAPD at work713 AcrossReveal answer → Frozen dessert713 AcrossReveal answer → Book, topping charts in audio format, full of compassion814 AcrossReveal answer → Snake516 AcrossReveal answer → Poignant moment: victory in fighting at last616 AcrossReveal answer → Smith who shoes horses717 AcrossReveal answer → Cab419 AcrossReveal answer → Each and every Parisian gets to visit a restaurant619 AcrossReveal answer → Impale820 AcrossReveal answer → Delightful examples: nothing is false here821 AcrossReveal answer → Recede322 AcrossReveal answer → Song of praise423 AcrossReveal answer → Nonsense about variable work - here’s a source of play723 AcrossReveal answer → Very nasty creature brought in to finish legal separation725 AcrossReveal answer → Extra bit of plant mutated in Trough Two927 AcrossReveal answer → Feed information to one crackpot seizing power528 AcrossReveal answer → Some wood, including Northern pine429 AcrossReveal answer → Sycophant interrupting toasts with no hesitation1030 AcrossReveal answer →

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Friend with a selection of food? It’s very tasty91 DownReveal answer → Favour61 DownReveal answer → Circuit32 DownReveal answer → Network behind schedule receiving reduced credit72 DownReveal answer → Cattle43 DownReveal answer → Mother joining three for bridge in rectory?53 DownReveal answer → Pale young man in G&S upset - last performance?84 DownReveal answer → Whisk94 DownReveal answer → Recap more than half of music?55 DownReveal answer → Clothes to be washed75 DownReveal answer → Chairman's hammer56 DownReveal answer → Handicraft engaging a million in the beginning? Not entirely77 DownReveal answer → Produce that is left in yard58 DownReveal answer → Thin meat? Reduced quantity served during flight89 DownReveal answer → Oversee910 DownReveal answer → Distant712 DownReveal answer → Adult female514 DownReveal answer → Area615 DownReveal answer → Dead routine for a woman? That’s the American preference815 DownReveal answer → Consumer pursuing opening to get contribution to housewarming?917 DownReveal answer → Staff’s methodology to secure area for promotional tour818 DownReveal answer → Counterfoil418 DownReveal answer → Dressmaker’s encouragement to be audacious?720 DownReveal answer → Secret agent321 DownReveal answer → Republican, beset by aggrieved purist, breaks in722 DownReveal answer → Amount to pay to get around river goblin523 DownReveal answer → Explosive with no d_____ strength524 DownReveal answer → Very bad act gathering good indication of disapproval?526 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 22, 2025. 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.