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The Independent Crossword August 25 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 25 2025 answers. The Monday puzzle has 56 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Officially approved drug chargeSTAMPEDE8Across1 Beast of burdenASS3Across1 Golf pegTEE3Across3 Medieval weapon originally appearing after 1000 ADMACE4Across6 Pale yellow colourPRIMROSE8Across7 Solid fuelCOAL4Across8 RodentHAMSTER7Across9 Colonising group, the European migrants initially in temporary accommodationSETTLEMENT10Across9 Give a Fig Newton for recipe as source of sugarCANE4Across10 Spouse's song describing new husband absorbed by first childBALLANDCHAIN12Across11 Swimming aidFLOAT5Across11 Frosty perhaps, sun presently starts to materialise around noonSNOWMAN7Across12 JanitorCARETAKER9Across13 Hot, newly broadcast US season includes kind of documentaryFLYONTHEWALL12Across14 Billionaire? Idiot carrying unreasonable cloutPLUTOCRAT9Across15 UmbilicusNAVEL5Across16 Workplace restaurantCANTEEN7Across17 Running after detectives apprehending popular poetDICKINSON9Across18 Travel chargeFARE4Across19 Type of picturePORTRAIT8Across20 Smell one primarily associated with earlier memoryAROMA5Across20 PlaythingTOY3Across22 Famous houses succumbed to strain without leader to initiate workKNUCKLEDOWN11Across23 Drinking vesselMUG3Across23 Change in Romania certain to bring about unemploymentLEISURE7Across25 The East Australian singer preceded by amateurASIA4Across27 Returning and briefly dwelling around old city with hellish odourSULPHUROUS10Across28 See 23KNUCKLEDOWN11Across29 Unwary as desperate fugitivesRUNAWAYS8Across30

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
AntennaAERIAL6Down1 See 14 AcrossFLYONTHEWALL12Down2 Quantity (of money)SUM3Down2 Talk more excitedly about wife's artisanal craftMETALWORK9Down3 Three, in cardsTREY4Down3 Nationalist extremists carrying Britain's status post-Brexit in dramatic directionEXEUNT6Down4 SplendidEXCELLENT9Down4 Annexed enclave includes biblical locationEDEN4Down5 PredictFORESEE7Down5 Imitator of Apple product that's adorableMACAW5Down6 Large parrotMACAW5Down6 Song and dance halved, and cheers doubledCANTATA7Down7 Alert newlywed vacated during catastrophic toastSTANDTO7Down8 Account summarySTATEMENT9Down10 GruesomeMACABRE7Down12 Priest meeting holy texts' writerELIOT5Down13 DeadlyFATAL5Down14 NeedleworkSEWING6Down15 Opener part of Ireland's teamCORKSCREW9Down16 Engineering student failing his essential GCSEENGLISH7Down17 NimbleSPRY4Down18 Playwright's changed since winning Oscar upon OscarIONESCO7Down19 Copper plated with light elementMERCURY7Down21 Alcoholic drinkRUM3Down21 Relatively plain creature, cold, lacking in beauty, hollow evenPEAHEN6Down22 See 11 AcrossBALLANDCHAIN12Down24 Drink noisily, not quietly, and speak drunkenlySLUR4Down26

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