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The Independent Crossword August 24 2025 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 24 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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Weapon provided in retirement to raise money71 AcrossReveal answer → See note101 AcrossReveal answer → Accommodate prisoner with criminal record75 AcrossReveal answer → Interment68 AcrossReveal answer → Cowardly69 AcrossReveal answer → Metal bar securing otter traps59 AcrossReveal answer → Easy-peasy, add a lasagne, bring back entertaining - good times!910 AcrossReveal answer → Ability to float810 AcrossReveal answer → With Earth unprotected I authorised releases of plastic1011 AcrossReveal answer → ?411 AcrossReveal answer → Striking bachelor of long standing412 AcrossReveal answer → Place of worship612 AcrossReveal answer → Elvis trip is blighted with gremlins?1114 AcrossReveal answer → Disinclined614 AcrossReveal answer → Conceal416 AcrossReveal answer → ?818 AcrossReveal answer → Face of net zero blamed wrongly for third-rate award1118 AcrossReveal answer → Engine part620 AcrossReveal answer → Posted621 AcrossReveal answer → Radical setter's imprisoned in Alabama421 AcrossReveal answer → Confounded assertion about daughter's dexterity1022 AcrossReveal answer → ?1022 AcrossReveal answer → Upper or lower? Whatever!925 AcrossReveal answer → From 6 November missing former partner's heading for discharge526 AcrossReveal answer → Say, party records on the counter make a big splash727 AcrossReveal answer → Starmer struggling for support?728 AcrossReveal answer →

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One died in fight just before the weekend61 DownReveal answer → Just claims R and R?62 DownReveal answer → Hirsute52 DownReveal answer → In Manchester BBC releases broadcast essential for motorists in winter?103 DownReveal answer → ?73 DownReveal answer → Total revolutionary in command of country perhaps?54 DownReveal answer → Disparage54 DownReveal answer → Fall in freezing fell95 DownReveal answer → Walter Scott novel75 DownReveal answer → Note stylish man dropping dead in Emperor's new clothes46 DownReveal answer → 50-50 odds56 DownReveal answer → Musical story with Hornblower possibly heading off to capture gold87 DownReveal answer → Surgical stitch67 DownReveal answer → Gathered facial hair as I have to leave quickly?88 DownReveal answer → Gift713 DownReveal answer → Instruction for cryptic solvers to form master race1013 DownReveal answer → Egg white714 DownReveal answer → Taken unlawfully615 DownReveal answer → Instant time off is restricting newspapers and magazines?915 DownReveal answer → Reportedly seize backing singers from Sweden for offices of religious leadership816 DownReveal answer → Toy with plain awful hairstyle817 DownReveal answer → Cake decoration517 DownReveal answer → Make sense (Informal)518 DownReveal answer → Decline in official employment619 DownReveal answer → Article519 DownReveal answer → Feature of distorted space-time620 DownReveal answer → Conclusion is nothing great523 DownReveal answer → Coloured the ancient religious academic houses424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, August 24, 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.