The Independent Crossword August 9 2025 Answers

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Below are all the The Independent Crossword August 9 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 118 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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Agricultural establishmentFARM4Across1 Fellow mistakenly handled it before the end of footy gameFINDTHELADY11Across1 Hop-drying kilnOAST4Across3 What's close to eight, closer to nine, and closer to eleven too?TEN3Across7 Computer programsSOFTWARE8Across8 Finally admit I'm right to be bored by Love IslandTIMOR5Across9 CloseNEAR4Across9 Become stuck in shallow water having no grip initially in small carRUNAROUND9Across10 HesitatingIRRESOLUTE10Across10 American rock band formed in 1969, best known for their association with Neil YoungCRAZYHORSE10Across11 Something unidentified I had on plate - tongue?YIDDISH7Across11 Greyish-brown omnivorous American mammal with a black facial mask and a ringed tailRACCOON7Across12 IntelligentCLEVER6Across12 This is pretty saucy ... slang terms for genitalia - 'tackle', 'nuts'LASAGNE7Across12 Bird I see over and over again quietly crowingCOCKAHOOP9Across13 Annual Asian plant, Cannabis sativa, whose tough fibres are used to make canvas and ropeHEMP4Across14 Short period of rainSHOWER6Across14 Classic 1971 track from The Doors album LA Woman, used by their drummer John Densmore as the title of his autobiographyRIDERSONTHESTORM16Across15 Semiconductor deviceTRANSISTOR10Across15 The capital of PolandWARSAW6Across16 Matter, but not the first matterISSUE5Across16 Novel by Peter Carey that won the Miles Franklin award in 1981BLISS5Across17 Father following daughter with ring was affectionateDOTED5Across18 Semi-autonomous region in northwestern Italy bordered by France and SwitzerlandAOSTAVALLEY11Across18 CabTAXI4Across19 ClearnessLUCIDITY8Across20 Freelance crossword setter given arithmetic - maybe '100 - 10?'MERCENARY9Across20 City in Nevada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, noted as a divorce, wedding and gambling centreRENO4Across21 Stringed instrumentLUTE4Across21 Novel by Charles Dickens partly set in the debtor's prison of MarshalseaLITTLEDORRIT12Across22 Suppose one kept live bats imprisoned?BELIEVE7Across22 Cricket extrasBYES4Across22 Lad lost at sea becomes an experienced sailorOLDSALT7Across24 1970 western starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef that was among the first movies rated RELCONDOR8Across25 Leader penning credo, cryptically, in Monaco?PRINCEDOM9Across26 Food crop found in Nicaragua - vanilla?GUAVA5Across27 Adagio regularly played for Beethoven?DOG3Across28 The capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999BONN4Across28 Byzantine statues broken by a leader of several powerful realmsSUPERSTATES11Across29 French name for a type of wide road that originated from a Dutch term for bulwarkBOULEVARD9Across29 Stage surname chosen by pop stars Steven Georgiou, Harold Ragsdale and Michael Barratt (Cat, Ray and Shakin')STEVENS7Across31 The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July 2024HILARYBENN10Across32 Non-absorbable sugar used in the treatment of constipationLACTULOSE9Across35 ___ the Unstoppable Sex Machine, English indie rock band formed in 1987 by musicians known as Jim Bob and FruitbatCARTER6Across36 American city whose sports teams include the Tigers, Lions and Red WingsDETROIT7Across37 Surname shared by the 26th and 32nd Presidents of the United StatesROOSEVELT9Across39 Medium-sized African antelope with curved horns and a distinctive shoulder humpTOPI4Across40 Name given to the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the MagiEPIPHANY8Across42 Mainly instrumental fourth album by Santana, released in 1972CARAVANSERAI12Across43 In fencing, the only discipline in which the entire body is a valid target areaEPEE4Across44 Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer, noted for his RubáiyátOMARKHAYYAM11Across46 Tuscan city famous its Palio, a traditional medieval horse raceSIENA5Across50 Water-resistant alloy consisting of copper and other elementsBRONZE6Across51 The ringing or sound of bellsTINTINNABULATION16Across53 See 32HILARYBENN10Across56 Third-largest island country of the Greater AntillesJAMAICA7Across57 Alternative name for deadly nightshadeBELLADONNA10Across58

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Dietary requirement of thick, vacant tearaway on drugsFATTYACID9Down1 Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and booksARCIMBOLDO10Down1 Small fleetFLOTILLA8Down1 Travelling restaurant I see going around the capital of DenmarkNOMADIC7Down2 Country whose capital is TashkentUZBEKISTAN10Down2 Helicopter bladeROTOR5Down2 Soldiers filling empty trunks - Bluebird's trunks?TORSI5Down3 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is GengangereGHOSTS6Down3 Orange-red food colouringANNATTO7Down4 The muse of astronomy in Greek mythology and a daughter of Zeus by MnemosyneURANIA6Down4 Throw nuts with some corn on top for myna bird's breakfastEARTHWORM9Down4 AmphibianTOAD4Down5 'Cancel' - remove article from publicationANNUL5Down5 The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabetRESH4Down5 Large heavy ropeHAWSER6Down6 Cricketers beginning to yell or shriek animatedlyYORKSHIRE9Down6 The personification of the rainbow in Greek mythologyIRIS4Down6 Erwin ___, German Field Marshal of World War II known as 'the Desert Fox'ROMMEL6Down7 Skin on fruitPEEL4Down7 Tramps by vacant toilets urged to move insideTRUDGES7Down7 Song by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy that was a top ten hit for Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers in 1964ONEWAYLOVE10Down8 Jog with no clothes on, having drunk gallonsNUDGE5Down8 The Norse god of thunderTHOR4Down9 American group formed in 1988 by brothers Attrell and Jarrett Cordes whose hits include Set Adrift on Memory BlissPMDAWN6Down10 Organic debrisDETRITUS8Down11 Name given to the main town on many Greek islands when the name of the island itself is the same as the name of the principal townCHORA5Down13 Jury's findingsVERDICT7Down13 Crowds materialising when car's on rails, failing to startAUDIENCES9Down14 SutureSTITCH6Down14 Theatre put up with old actor?PERFORMER9Down15 Without legal forceNULL4Down16 Some of them were bound to lastEGYPTIANS9Down17 Hot alcoholic drinkTODDY5Down17 Crosspiece on cricket stumpsBAIL4Down18 Significant bandleader's about to leave - time's upTELLING7Down19 A ___ Named Desire, 1947 play by Tennessee WilliamsSTREETCAR9Down19 Influential Japanese filmmaker whose films include Seven Samurai and RanAKIRAKUROSAWA13Down20 The animal Cervus elaphusREDDEER7Down21 Determined little creature holding up a Hoover?ADAMANT7Down21 Bluebird? Bluebird quietly gets into bedBIPED5Down22 One of two corridors in a legislative building in which members voteLOBBY5Down23 Find yourself in a higher place after deathENDUP5Down23 In card games such as bridge, a holding of exactly two cards in a suitDOUBLETON9Down24 Little piggy, perhaps, in poke? One cat, ultimatelyDIGIT5Down25 Genus of flowering plants in the pea family commonly known as bush clover or Japanese cloverLESPEDEZA9Down26 BBC sitcpom that starred Paul Greenwood in the title roleROSIE5Down27 Arabian camel with a single humpDROMEDARY9Down30 Department in France named after a tributary of the Seine, whose capital is ChâteaurouxINDRE5Down33 Assumed surname of Frederick AusterlitzASTAIRE7Down34 Large constellation whose name means whaleCETUS5Down36 Japanese sumo wrestler who holds the record for the most bouts contested in professional sumoOSHIOKENJI10Down38 Early 20th-century dance, done to fast ragtime music and characterised by sideways hopping stepsTURKEYTROT10Down40 The leading female singer in an opera or opera companyPRIMADONNA10Down41 Lady Penelope's butler and chauffeur in ThunderbirdsPARKER6Down45 To ___, poem by John Keats written in September 1819AUTUMN6Down47 A Japanese writing system using Chinese charactersKANJI5Down48 A genus of ray, commonly referred to as devil or flying raysMOBULA6Down49 The sovereign of a Muslim country, in particular of the former Ottoman EmpireSULTAN6Down50 The Newfoundland dog in J M Barrie's Peter PanNANA4Down52 Country whose capital is BaghdadIRAQ4Down54 The Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writingNABU4Down55

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, August 9, 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.