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The Independent Crossword August 30 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 108 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 30 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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Visible impression41 AcrossReveal answer → Facility44 AcrossReveal answer → Single-celled organism68 AcrossReveal answer → The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test match139 AcrossReveal answer → Weighing device69 AcrossReveal answer → Grand member of parliament sporting tie99 AcrossReveal answer → Bunnies discovered jumping out of boredom510 AcrossReveal answer → Type of cafe1010 AcrossReveal answer → He told a tale about the night before511 AcrossReveal answer → Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977 and 2005912 AcrossReveal answer → Stew612 AcrossReveal answer → 'Doctor Strange' — I'm watching online912 AcrossReveal answer → Dip bug in port713 AcrossReveal answer → Spice614 AcrossReveal answer → Shakespears Sister's only UK number one single414 AcrossReveal answer → Thinker turning to socialist papers715 AcrossReveal answer → City of NW Spain, home to the country's oldest university915 AcrossReveal answer → Top hot potato?1316 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer Beals816 AcrossReveal answer → Tumbledown1016 AcrossReveal answer → English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of London1117 AcrossReveal answer → The most capped English Test wicket-keeper1118 AcrossReveal answer → 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hat620 AcrossReveal answer → Begin a round of golf620 AcrossReveal answer → District of the City of Westminster named after London's first neo-classical building, built by the Adam brothers721 AcrossReveal answer → Card suit621 AcrossReveal answer → Director playing 'Alien' and 'Blade'721 AcrossReveal answer → A marine percoid fish of the family Labridae622 AcrossReveal answer → Elegant422 AcrossReveal answer → Firing oven423 AcrossReveal answer → 'Time Out' has gossip articles by Spooner724 AcrossReveal answer → Show note each time925 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 single by Prince that reached number two in the US1426 AcrossReveal answer → Fifty, duck, century, and a fifty — one can't get you out!526 AcrossReveal answer → One revolting bachelor breaks wind528 AcrossReveal answer → The only man to have twice won all four Grand Slam tennis singles titles in the same year829 AcrossReveal answer → Nice guy perhaps cleared out for uninitiated sidekick929 AcrossReveal answer → Shipboard game in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net1031 AcrossReveal answer → The first document forced onto an English king by a group of his subjects1033 AcrossReveal answer → The Croatian name for Croatia836 AcrossReveal answer → English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken1438 AcrossReveal answer → Texas city in which John F Kennedy was assassinated640 AcrossReveal answer → Will ___, one of Robin Hood's Merry Men742 AcrossReveal answer → The state capital of Alaska644 AcrossReveal answer → England's second highest wicket taker in Test cricket1147 AcrossReveal answer → English photographer, former husband of actress Catherine Deneuve and model Marie Helvin1149 AcrossReveal answer → BBC Two sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan851 AcrossReveal answer → Former West Indies batsman whose cricketing records include the highest individual score in first-class cricket: 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham952 AcrossReveal answer → Soft creamy French cheese with a whitish rind453 AcrossReveal answer → The third book of the Old Testament954 AcrossReveal answer → The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution1355 AcrossReveal answer →

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Free trade is covering both sides71 DownReveal answer → Post traditionally rewarded with "a butt of sack"121 DownReveal answer → Go online, presumably to get weapon42 DownReveal answer → Lead guitarist of the band Travis102 DownReveal answer → Charitable donations42 DownReveal answer → What may follow foul and gratuitous level of spice?83 DownReveal answer → 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers73 DownReveal answer → Patella73 DownReveal answer → Left in pursuit of wine and gin, finally84 DownReveal answer → Oriental74 DownReveal answer → Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces54 DownReveal answer → Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo Rosso75 DownReveal answer → Celebrities55 DownReveal answer → Red state ultimately seceding65 DownReveal answer → The first track and field athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympics86 DownReveal answer → Fifty per cent46 DownReveal answer → Benefit from conflict within touching distance66 DownReveal answer → Get better77 DownReveal answer → Official language of Israel67 DownReveal answer → Dictator's against relief work driving solution107 DownReveal answer → The largest lake in England108 DownReveal answer → Impressed by fairy's wings, Quince had become nervous78 DownReveal answer → Hampshire village in the New Forest on the outskirts of New Milton with cricket and football clubs710 DownReveal answer → A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type711 DownReveal answer → Stern-looking711 DownReveal answer → Vehicles coming and going713 DownReveal answer → American bandleader whose band premiered Rhapsody in Blue with George Gershwin on piano1213 DownReveal answer → Spineless guy stood up woman stopping by twice1014 DownReveal answer → Curtain accessory715 DownReveal answer → Laziness517 DownReveal answer → Rejudge a criminal presumed to be good at hearing817 DownReveal answer → Touch with the lips418 DownReveal answer → Key things going over one's head?818 DownReveal answer → Face covering419 DownReveal answer → They insult a group of street performers heartlessly719 DownReveal answer → American swing and bebop trumpeter who was a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz1019 DownReveal answer → Republican in denial about country720 DownReveal answer → Kiss and cuddle, forgetting about fool622 DownReveal answer → The King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828523 DownReveal answer → Short of time in a cryptic crossword, begin623 DownReveal answer → 2008 film featuring a Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Robert Downey Jr724 DownReveal answer → American dancer, actor, choreographer and singer whose films include The Cotton Club and Running Scared1225 DownReveal answer → Father of Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream527 DownReveal answer → Party caught a politician427 DownReveal answer → Olympic swimmer who first starred as Tarzan in 19331228 DownReveal answer → Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 20031030 DownReveal answer → US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphone1234 DownReveal answer → See 191035 DownReveal answer → Best Actor Oscar-winner for In the Heat of the Night1037 DownReveal answer → Royal correspondent for BBC News from 1989 to 20031039 DownReveal answer → Pakistani-born British actor whose TV roles include Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown841 DownReveal answer → Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou Grant743 DownReveal answer → English comedian, writer, presenter and actor who was formerly a psychiatric nurse744 DownReveal answer → Silvery-white metallic chemical element with the atomic number 92745 DownReveal answer → A system of exercise named after its German inventor whose father was a gymnast from Greece746 DownReveal answer → The brightest star in the constellation Aquila648 DownReveal answer → See 251250 DownReveal answer →

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