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The Independent Crossword August 7 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 7 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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Dance workers in trousers that stretch81 AcrossReveal answer → Food retailer61 AcrossReveal answer → Climb54 AcrossReveal answer → Poor grades blocking musical trainees66 AcrossReveal answer → Biting insect58 AcrossReveal answer → Magistrate miserable having released 5049 AcrossReveal answer → Defeat79 AcrossReveal answer → Metallic element810 AcrossReveal answer → Issue consuming Brown small, or hard to handle?1010 AcrossReveal answer → Membership fees411 AcrossReveal answer → Flyer downed in nice warm gust — wings always failing611 AcrossReveal answer → Tunnels side by side near the bridge?812 AcrossReveal answer → Enjoyable1113 AcrossReveal answer → Shock a mate unnamed in US region1013 AcrossReveal answer → String quartet from Gossec or Dvorak?416 AcrossReveal answer → Mountain nymph backing appeal to Anglicans?417 AcrossReveal answer → Beams417 AcrossReveal answer → Germs818 AcrossReveal answer → Dangerous WWI agent really good with chat1019 AcrossReveal answer → Hunting cry721 AcrossReveal answer → Copper tense after punch — that goes against the grain822 AcrossReveal answer → Thick rope522 AcrossReveal answer → Verse523 AcrossReveal answer → Hold back time — the price?624 AcrossReveal answer → Mild624 AcrossReveal answer → Similar tit, cuckoo and hawk1026 AcrossReveal answer → Wife leaving got bigger cut427 AcrossReveal answer → Changes One put out by East European composer628 AcrossReveal answer → Most ancient ateliers renovated829 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hole-boring tool61 DownReveal answer → Command52 DownReveal answer → Born in crowd, raised in Belfast threesome72 DownReveal answer → Model83 DownReveal answer → Passable cuts for every card game53 DownReveal answer → Look after44 DownReveal answer → One rebuilt casino invests divided capital74 DownReveal answer → Two Frenchmen battling with Interpol as in The Saint125 DownReveal answer → Strange75 DownReveal answer → More tea houses where Kings Road is located76 DownReveal answer → Songbird66 DownReveal answer → Director-General moved fast to cover lives stigmatised97 DownReveal answer → Type of bet117 DownReveal answer → See 5128 DownReveal answer → Imitative work of art812 DownReveal answer → Faithfulness714 DownReveal answer → Setter's wretched existence?914 DownReveal answer → Takes in heroin and arsenic315 DownReveal answer → Public speaker615 DownReveal answer → Flower cluster616 DownReveal answer → Island century or so ago banning travel718 DownReveal answer → Butter club sandwiches in decorative craft?719 DownReveal answer → Refute519 DownReveal answer → Such a professional as might be called to account?720 DownReveal answer → Sort420 DownReveal answer → Elgar is studied in African capital721 DownReveal answer → Tea's first, cereal second523 DownReveal answer → City revolutionary writer cripples?525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, August 7, 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.