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The Independent Crossword August 8 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 8 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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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
That chap going to pub in dress bewildered country workers91 AcrossReveal answer → Piercing tool31 AcrossReveal answer → Do needlework33 AcrossReveal answer → Increasingly precise printer program? Not very56 AcrossReveal answer → Pass a degree course87 AcrossReveal answer → Harvest48 AcrossReveal answer → Hairy79 AcrossReveal answer → Article suggests removing old parts of churches59 AcrossReveal answer → Idiot jumped, striking head, being attacked910 AcrossReveal answer → Wretched area involved in most of Bond film411 AcrossReveal answer → Seat511 AcrossReveal answer → Translation of second rune available to read1012 AcrossReveal answer → Slaughter713 AcrossReveal answer → Right remains in control of Nationalist Society, leading to impulsive behaviour814 AcrossReveal answer → A pretentious type returned one sort of tree615 AcrossReveal answer → Room on a ship516 AcrossReveal answer → Garnishing plant717 AcrossReveal answer → Farm tool out of condition, left half unused618 AcrossReveal answer → Female horse419 AcrossReveal answer → We’re off, taking trip around - arrivederci!820 AcrossReveal answer → Pre-meal drink820 AcrossReveal answer → Large deer322 AcrossReveal answer → Final part323 AcrossReveal answer → Associations? Man tingles excitedly1023 AcrossReveal answer → Regretting not taking one step424 AcrossReveal answer → Installs first of cameras one time, in mysterious Ness926 AcrossReveal answer → Silly bishop returning to embrace witch527 AcrossReveal answer → Cheers seeing off first of heavily armoured vehicles528 AcrossReveal answer → Smooth attempt to go round one of orbiting bodies929 AcrossReveal answer →

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Dexterous61 DownReveal answer → Expectations from booths surrounding a road91 DownReveal answer → Guarantees criticisms will see leader ousted72 DownReveal answer → Boy32 DownReveal answer → Quiet American seen between rugby posts43 DownReveal answer → Stalk43 DownReveal answer → Reduce amount of study after daughter leaves, adopting new state of existence84 DownReveal answer → Without value94 DownReveal answer → Nurse is mostly tough on the outside65 DownReveal answer → Ecstasy75 DownReveal answer → More than one American shop carpet’s ripped when detective comes around106 DownReveal answer → Quibble56 DownReveal answer → Junior employees playing tennis with director at last77 DownReveal answer → Communist papers further edited?58 DownReveal answer → Profanation910 DownReveal answer → Floor show712 DownReveal answer → Cosy places? No agreement to occupy one first to last1013 DownReveal answer → Artificial waterway514 DownReveal answer → In arrears615 DownReveal answer → I will say supporter is ignoring the law916 DownReveal answer → Disney film profitable around Northern part of the globe817 DownReveal answer → Bird of prey418 DownReveal answer → Is accordingly entering container, a watertight container719 DownReveal answer → Frozen water321 DownReveal answer → Remoter regions of old city swinging both ways in middle of Texas721 DownReveal answer → Military police officer departs during summary622 DownReveal answer → A grant to bring in river warning signal523 DownReveal answer → I fish, letting nothing escape, in area with a coast425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, August 8, 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.