The Independent Crossword August 24 2025 Answers
Sunday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 24 2025 answers. The Sunday puzzle has 54 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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Click a clue for every answer it has ever hadClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Weapon provided in retirement to raise moneyFIREARM7Across1
See noteWHISTDRIVE10Across1
Accommodate prisoner with criminal recordCONFORM7Across5
IntermentBURIAL6Across8
CowardlyCRAVEN6Across9
Metal bar securing otter trapsINGOT5Across9
Easy-peasy, add a lasagne, bring back entertaining - good times!SALADDAYS9Across10
Ability to floatBUOYANCY8Across10
With Earth unprotected I authorised releases of plasticARTIFICIAL10Across11
?HUSH4Across11
Striking bachelor of long standingBOLD4Across12
Place of worshipTEMPLE6Across12
Elvis trip is blighted with gremlins?EVILSPIRITS11Across14
DisinclinedAVERSE6Across14
ConcealHIDE4Across16
?AMBITION8Across18
Face of net zero blamed wrongly for third-rate awardBRONZEMEDAL11Across18
Engine partBIGEND6Across20
PostedMAILED6Across21
Radical setter's imprisoned in AlabamaAMYL4Across21
Confounded assertion about daughter's dexterityADROITNESS10Across22
?GETUPANDGO10Across22
Upper or lower? Whatever!INANYCASE9Across25
From 6 November missing former partner's heading for dischargeEXUDE5Across26
Say, party records on the counter make a big splashSPLODGE7Across27
Starmer struggling for support?ARMREST7Across28
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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
One died in fight just before the weekendFRIDAY6Down1
Just claims R and R?RIGHTS6Down2
HirsuteHAIRY5Down2
In Manchester BBC releases broadcast essential for motorists in winter?ANTIFREEZE10Down3
?SILENCE7Down3
Total revolutionary in command of country perhaps?MUSIC5Down4
DisparageDECRY5Down4
Fall in freezing fellCOLLAPSED9Down5
Walter Scott novelIVANHOE7Down5
Note stylish man dropping dead in Emperor's new clothesNUDE4Down6
50-50 oddsEVENS5Down6
Musical story with Hornblower possibly heading off to capture goldORATORIO8Down7
Surgical stitchSUTURE6Down7
Gathered facial hair as I have to leave quickly?MUSTDASH8Down8
GiftPRESENT7Down13
Instruction for cryptic solvers to form master raceMILLSTREAM10Down13
Egg whiteALBUMEN7Down14
Taken unlawfullySTOLEN6Down15
Instant time off is restricting newspapers and magazines?IMMEDIATE9Down15
Reportedly seize backing singers from Sweden for offices of religious leadershipABBACIES8Down16
Toy with plain awful hairstylePONYTAIL8Down17
Cake decorationICING5Down17
Make sense (Informal)ADDUP5Down18
Decline in official employmentREFUSE6Down19
ArticleTHING5Down19
Feature of distorted space-timeASPECT6Down20
Conclusion is nothing greatOMEGA5Down23
Coloured the ancient religious academic housesDYED4Down24
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, August 24, 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.