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The Independent Crossword August 29 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 52 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 29 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Insect seen in angle behind cutlery101 AcrossReveal answer → Skinny46 AcrossReveal answer → Long problem after first husband leaves46 AcrossReveal answer → Equipment37 AcrossReveal answer → Egg cells38 AcrossReveal answer → Having problems focussing: a nervous response after wine that’s genetically modified109 AcrossReveal answer → Blue dye69 AcrossReveal answer → Gloomy610 AcrossReveal answer → Sign the writer is engaged in working410 AcrossReveal answer → Itinerant1111 AcrossReveal answer → Governed by tense ambassador and revolted in private1212 AcrossReveal answer → Salad dressing1114 AcrossReveal answer → Out-of-date magistrate? Note us turning in first half of rock group915 AcrossReveal answer → Recalled painting of Shakespearean production?517 AcrossReveal answer → Abandoning start, cross crest of hill518 AcrossReveal answer → Domesticated polecat618 AcrossReveal answer → Miserable specimen was initially tucking into punctured sausage919 AcrossReveal answer → Refined character has tip for working with most of Society1220 AcrossReveal answer → Language620 AcrossReveal answer → Forerunner of reggae321 AcrossReveal answer → Unhappy322 AcrossReveal answer → Itemise423 AcrossReveal answer → Lily heading off second half of rock group424 AcrossReveal answer → Ancestors fairly teem with corruption1025 AcrossReveal answer → Unresolved, exhausted, losing heart426 AcrossReveal answer → Arrangement of lute music including nothing precise1027 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Go and run from London hospital, upset41 DownReveal answer → Porcelain51 DownReveal answer → Piece of wood is section of wall at home42 DownReveal answer → Whole62 DownReveal answer → Long time for one to participate in new production of genuine opera123 DownReveal answer → Article43 DownReveal answer → Loud red pigment? Just a small amount54 DownReveal answer → Compel64 DownReveal answer → International getting sick in Southern California? Just a little95 DownReveal answer → Root vegetable75 DownReveal answer → Book containing dessert recipes you’ve initially taken as nonsense107 DownReveal answer → Wise77 DownReveal answer → Female leading church above Scottish river from now on108 DownReveal answer → Go and smell, perhaps a bit of willow tree, almost in bloom?1211 DownReveal answer → Tipped off712 DownReveal answer → Wears plaster for athletics programme?1013 DownReveal answer → Illness713 DownReveal answer → Millions enthralled by new poem on Wodehouse (English name adopted by author)1014 DownReveal answer → Overseas615 DownReveal answer → Flying buttress surrounding a foundation916 DownReveal answer → Twisted mass616 DownReveal answer → External appearance517 DownReveal answer → Elephant's tooth419 DownReveal answer → Half of seed linked to one pepper521 DownReveal answer → Book on carnival city showing zest422 DownReveal answer → Animal sounds converted street423 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 29, 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.