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The Independent Crossword August 30 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 30 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 108 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#
Visible impressionMARK4Across1 FacilityEASE4Across4 Single-celled organismAMOEBA6Across8 The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test matchJONNYBAIRSTOW13Across9 Weighing deviceSCALES6Across9 Grand member of parliament sporting tieSUPERBOWL9Across9 Bunnies discovered jumping out of boredomENNUI5Across10 Type of cafeCOFFEESHOP10Across10 He told a tale about the night beforeREEVE5Across11 Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977 and 2005REALBETIS9Across12 StewHOTPOT6Across12 'Doctor Strange' — I'm watching onlineSTREAMING9Across12 Dip bug in portDUNKIRK7Across13 SpiceNUTMEG6Across14 Shakespears Sister's only UK number one singleSTAY4Across14 Thinker turning to socialist papersDIDEROT7Across15 City of NW Spain, home to the country's oldest universitySALAMANCA9Across15 Top hot potato?SMOKINGJACKET13Across16 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer BealsTHEBRIDE8Across16 TumbledownRAMSHACKLE10Across16 English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of LondonSAMUELPEPYS11Across17 The most capped English Test wicket-keeperALECSTEWART11Across18 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hatTRILBY6Across20 Begin a round of golfTEEOFF6Across20 District of the City of Westminster named after London's first neo-classical building, built by the Adam brothersADELPHI7Across21 Card suitSPADES6Across21 Director playing 'Alien' and 'Blade'BAYONET7Across21 A marine percoid fish of the family LabridaeWRASSE6Across22 ElegantCHIC4Across22 Firing ovenKILN4Across23 'Time Out' has gossip articles by SpoonerGAPYEAR7Across24 Show note each timeSOAPOPERA9Across25 1985 single by Prince that reached number two in the USRASPBERRYBERET14Across26 Fifty, duck, century, and a fifty — one can't get you out!LOCAL5Across26 One revolting bachelor breaks windREBEL5Across28 The only man to have twice won all four Grand Slam tennis singles titles in the same yearRODLAVER8Across29 Nice guy perhaps cleared out for uninitiated sidekickFRENCHMAN9Across29 Shipboard game in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high netDECKTENNIS10Across31 The first document forced onto an English king by a group of his subjectsMAGNACARTA10Across33 The Croatian name for CroatiaHRVATSKA8Across36 English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has BrokenELEANORFARJEON14Across38 Texas city in which John F Kennedy was assassinatedDALLAS6Across40 Will ___, one of Robin Hood's Merry MenSCARLET7Across42 The state capital of AlaskaJUNEAU6Across44 England's second highest wicket taker in Test cricketSTUARTBROAD11Across47 English photographer, former husband of actress Catherine Deneuve and model Marie HelvinDAVIDBAILEY11Across49 BBC Two sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham LinehanBIGTRAIN8Across51 Former West Indies batsman whose cricketing records include the highest individual score in first-class cricket: 501 not out for Warwickshire against DurhamBRIANLARA9Across52 Soft creamy French cheese with a whitish rindBRIE4Across53 The third book of the Old TestamentLEVITICUS9Across54 The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French RevolutionGEORGESDANTON13Across55

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Free trade is covering both sidesASTRIDE7Down1 Post traditionally rewarded with "a butt of sack"POETLAUREATE12Down1 Go online, presumably to get weaponEPEE4Down2 Lead guitarist of the band TravisANDYDUNLOP10Down2 Charitable donationsALMS4Down2 What may follow foul and gratuitous level of spice?FREEKICK8Down3 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert IversGIBLUES7Down3 PatellaKNEECAP7Down3 Left in pursuit of wine and gin, finallyFORSAKEN8Down4 OrientalEASTERN7Down4 Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ouncesPOUND5Down4 Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo RossoLETTUCE7Down5 CelebritiesSTARS5Down5 Red state ultimately secedingFLORID6Down5 The first track and field athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive OlympicsALOERTER8Down6 Fifty per centHALF4Down6 Benefit from conflict within touching distanceREWARD6Down6 Get betterRECOVER7Down7 Official language of IsraelHEBREW6Down7 Dictator's against relief work driving solutionANTIFREEZE10Down7 The largest lake in EnglandWINDERMERE10Down8 Impressed by fairy's wings, Quince had become nervousFIDGETY7Down8 Hampshire village in the New Forest on the outskirts of New Milton with cricket and football clubsBASHLEY7Down10 A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz typeSAMOYED7Down11 Stern-lookingPOFACED7Down11 Vehicles coming and goingTRAFFIC7Down13 American bandleader whose band premiered Rhapsody in Blue with George Gershwin on pianoPAULWHITEMAN12Down13 Spineless guy stood up woman stopping by twiceNAMBYPAMBY10Down14 Curtain accessoryTIEBACK7Down15 LazinessSLOTH5Down17 Rejudge a criminal presumed to be good at hearingJUGEARED8Down17 Touch with the lipsKISS4Down18 Key things going over one's head?CAPSLOCK8Down18 Face coveringVEIL4Down19 They insult a group of street performers heartlesslyABUSERS7Down19 American swing and bebop trumpeter who was a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazzCLARKTERRY10Down19 Republican in denial about countryIRELAND7Down20 Kiss and cuddle, forgetting about foolNOODLE6Down22 The King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828SHAKA5Down23 Short of time in a cryptic crossword, beginTEEOFF6Down23 2008 film featuring a Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Robert Downey JrIRONMAN7Down24 American dancer, actor, choreographer and singer whose films include The Cotton Club and Running ScaredGREGORYHINES12Down25 Father of Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamEGEUS5Down27 Party caught a politicianCAMP4Down27 Olympic swimmer who first starred as Tarzan in 1933BUSTERCRABBE12Down28 Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 2003DIANAKRALL10Down30 US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphoneTHOMASEDISON12Down34 See 19CLARKTERRY10Down35 Best Actor Oscar-winner for In the Heat of the NightRODSTEIGER10Down37 Royal correspondent for BBC News from 1989 to 2003JENNIEBOND10Down39 Pakistani-born British actor whose TV roles include Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the CrownARTMALIK8Down41 Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou GrantEDASNER7Down43 English comedian, writer, presenter and actor who was formerly a psychiatric nurseJOBRAND7Down44 Silvery-white metallic chemical element with the atomic number 92URANIUM7Down45 A system of exercise named after its German inventor whose father was a gymnast from GreecePILATES7Down46 The brightest star in the constellation AquilaALTAIR6Down48 See 25GREGORYHINES12Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 30, 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.