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The Independent Crossword August 25 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 25 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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Officially approved drug charge81 AcrossReveal answer → Beast of burden31 AcrossReveal answer → Golf peg33 AcrossReveal answer → Medieval weapon originally appearing after 1000 AD46 AcrossReveal answer → Pale yellow colour87 AcrossReveal answer → Solid fuel48 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent79 AcrossReveal answer → Colonising group, the European migrants initially in temporary accommodation109 AcrossReveal answer → Give a Fig Newton for recipe as source of sugar410 AcrossReveal answer → Spouse's song describing new husband absorbed by first child1211 AcrossReveal answer → Swimming aid511 AcrossReveal answer → Frosty perhaps, sun presently starts to materialise around noon712 AcrossReveal answer → Janitor913 AcrossReveal answer → Hot, newly broadcast US season includes kind of documentary1214 AcrossReveal answer → Billionaire? Idiot carrying unreasonable clout915 AcrossReveal answer → Umbilicus516 AcrossReveal answer → Workplace restaurant717 AcrossReveal answer → Running after detectives apprehending popular poet918 AcrossReveal answer → Travel charge419 AcrossReveal answer → Type of picture820 AcrossReveal answer → Smell one primarily associated with earlier memory520 AcrossReveal answer → Plaything322 AcrossReveal answer → Famous houses succumbed to strain without leader to initiate work1123 AcrossReveal answer → Drinking vessel323 AcrossReveal answer → Change in Romania certain to bring about unemployment725 AcrossReveal answer → The East Australian singer preceded by amateur427 AcrossReveal answer → Returning and briefly dwelling around old city with hellish odour1028 AcrossReveal answer → See 231129 AcrossReveal answer → Unwary as desperate fugitives830 AcrossReveal answer →

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Antenna61 DownReveal answer → See 14 Across122 DownReveal answer → Quantity (of money)32 DownReveal answer → Talk more excitedly about wife's artisanal craft93 DownReveal answer → Three, in cards43 DownReveal answer → Nationalist extremists carrying Britain's status post-Brexit in dramatic direction64 DownReveal answer → Splendid94 DownReveal answer → Annexed enclave includes biblical location45 DownReveal answer → Predict75 DownReveal answer → Imitator of Apple product that's adorable56 DownReveal answer → Large parrot56 DownReveal answer → Song and dance halved, and cheers doubled77 DownReveal answer → Alert newlywed vacated during catastrophic toast78 DownReveal answer → Account summary910 DownReveal answer → Gruesome712 DownReveal answer → Priest meeting holy texts' writer513 DownReveal answer → Deadly514 DownReveal answer → Needlework615 DownReveal answer → Opener part of Ireland's team916 DownReveal answer → Engineering student failing his essential GCSE717 DownReveal answer → Nimble418 DownReveal answer → Playwright's changed since winning Oscar upon Oscar719 DownReveal answer → Copper plated with light element721 DownReveal answer → Alcoholic drink321 DownReveal answer → Relatively plain creature, cold, lacking in beauty, hollow even622 DownReveal answer → See 11 Across1224 DownReveal answer → Drink noisily, not quietly, and speak drunkenly426 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, August 25, 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.