The Independent Crossword August 9 2025 Answers

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Below are all 118 clues from the The Independent Crossword for August 9 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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Agricultural establishment41 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow mistakenly handled it before the end of footy game111 AcrossReveal answer → Hop-drying kiln43 AcrossReveal answer → What's close to eight, closer to nine, and closer to eleven too?37 AcrossReveal answer → Computer programs88 AcrossReveal answer → Finally admit I'm right to be bored by Love Island59 AcrossReveal answer → Close49 AcrossReveal answer → Become stuck in shallow water having no grip initially in small car910 AcrossReveal answer → Hesitating1010 AcrossReveal answer → American rock band formed in 1969, best known for their association with Neil Young1011 AcrossReveal answer → Something unidentified I had on plate - tongue?711 AcrossReveal answer → Greyish-brown omnivorous American mammal with a black facial mask and a ringed tail712 AcrossReveal answer → Intelligent612 AcrossReveal answer → This is pretty saucy ... slang terms for genitalia - 'tackle', 'nuts'712 AcrossReveal answer → Bird I see over and over again quietly crowing913 AcrossReveal answer → Annual Asian plant, Cannabis sativa, whose tough fibres are used to make canvas and rope414 AcrossReveal answer → Short period of rain614 AcrossReveal answer → Classic 1971 track from The Doors album LA Woman, used by their drummer John Densmore as the title of his autobiography1615 AcrossReveal answer → Semiconductor device1015 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Poland616 AcrossReveal answer → Matter, but not the first matter516 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Peter Carey that won the Miles Franklin award in 1981517 AcrossReveal answer → Father following daughter with ring was affectionate518 AcrossReveal answer → Semi-autonomous region in northwestern Italy bordered by France and Switzerland1118 AcrossReveal answer → Cab419 AcrossReveal answer → Clearness820 AcrossReveal answer → Freelance crossword setter given arithmetic - maybe '100 - 10?'920 AcrossReveal answer → City in Nevada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, noted as a divorce, wedding and gambling centre421 AcrossReveal answer → Stringed instrument421 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Charles Dickens partly set in the debtor's prison of Marshalsea1222 AcrossReveal answer → Suppose one kept live bats imprisoned?722 AcrossReveal answer → Cricket extras422 AcrossReveal answer → Lad lost at sea becomes an experienced sailor724 AcrossReveal answer → 1970 western starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef that was among the first movies rated R825 AcrossReveal answer → Leader penning credo, cryptically, in Monaco?926 AcrossReveal answer → Food crop found in Nicaragua - vanilla?527 AcrossReveal answer → Adagio regularly played for Beethoven?328 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999428 AcrossReveal answer → Byzantine statues broken by a leader of several powerful realms1129 AcrossReveal answer → French name for a type of wide road that originated from a Dutch term for bulwark929 AcrossReveal answer → Stage surname chosen by pop stars Steven Georgiou, Harold Ragsdale and Michael Barratt (Cat, Ray and Shakin')731 AcrossReveal answer → The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July 20241032 AcrossReveal answer → Non-absorbable sugar used in the treatment of constipation935 AcrossReveal answer → ___ the Unstoppable Sex Machine, English indie rock band formed in 1987 by musicians known as Jim Bob and Fruitbat636 AcrossReveal answer → American city whose sports teams include the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings737 AcrossReveal answer → Surname shared by the 26th and 32nd Presidents of the United States939 AcrossReveal answer → Medium-sized African antelope with curved horns and a distinctive shoulder hump440 AcrossReveal answer → Name given to the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi842 AcrossReveal answer → Mainly instrumental fourth album by Santana, released in 19721243 AcrossReveal answer → In fencing, the only discipline in which the entire body is a valid target area444 AcrossReveal answer → Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer, noted for his Rubáiyát1146 AcrossReveal answer → Tuscan city famous its Palio, a traditional medieval horse race550 AcrossReveal answer → Water-resistant alloy consisting of copper and other elements651 AcrossReveal answer → The ringing or sound of bells1653 AcrossReveal answer → See 321056 AcrossReveal answer → Third-largest island country of the Greater Antilles757 AcrossReveal answer → Alternative name for deadly nightshade1058 AcrossReveal answer →

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Dietary requirement of thick, vacant tearaway on drugs91 DownReveal answer → Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books101 DownReveal answer → Small fleet81 DownReveal answer → Travelling restaurant I see going around the capital of Denmark72 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Tashkent102 DownReveal answer → Helicopter blade52 DownReveal answer → Soldiers filling empty trunks - Bluebird's trunks?53 DownReveal answer → 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is Gengangere63 DownReveal answer → Orange-red food colouring74 DownReveal answer → The muse of astronomy in Greek mythology and a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne64 DownReveal answer → Throw nuts with some corn on top for myna bird's breakfast94 DownReveal answer → Amphibian45 DownReveal answer → 'Cancel' - remove article from publication55 DownReveal answer → The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet45 DownReveal answer → Large heavy rope66 DownReveal answer → Cricketers beginning to yell or shriek animatedly96 DownReveal answer → The personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology46 DownReveal answer → Erwin ___, German Field Marshal of World War II known as 'the Desert Fox'67 DownReveal answer → Skin on fruit47 DownReveal answer → Tramps by vacant toilets urged to move inside77 DownReveal answer → Song by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy that was a top ten hit for Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers in 1964108 DownReveal answer → Jog with no clothes on, having drunk gallons58 DownReveal answer → The Norse god of thunder49 DownReveal answer → American group formed in 1988 by brothers Attrell and Jarrett Cordes whose hits include Set Adrift on Memory Bliss610 DownReveal answer → Organic debris811 DownReveal answer → 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 town513 DownReveal answer → Jury's findings713 DownReveal answer → Crowds materialising when car's on rails, failing to start914 DownReveal answer → Suture614 DownReveal answer → Theatre put up with old actor?915 DownReveal answer → Without legal force416 DownReveal answer → Some of them were bound to last917 DownReveal answer → Hot alcoholic drink517 DownReveal answer → Crosspiece on cricket stumps418 DownReveal answer → Significant bandleader's about to leave - time's up719 DownReveal answer → A ___ Named Desire, 1947 play by Tennessee Williams919 DownReveal answer → Influential Japanese filmmaker whose films include Seven Samurai and Ran1320 DownReveal answer → The animal Cervus elaphus721 DownReveal answer → Determined little creature holding up a Hoover?721 DownReveal answer → Bluebird? Bluebird quietly gets into bed522 DownReveal answer → One of two corridors in a legislative building in which members vote523 DownReveal answer → Find yourself in a higher place after death523 DownReveal answer → In card games such as bridge, a holding of exactly two cards in a suit924 DownReveal answer → Little piggy, perhaps, in poke? One cat, ultimately525 DownReveal answer → Genus of flowering plants in the pea family commonly known as bush clover or Japanese clover926 DownReveal answer → BBC sitcpom that starred Paul Greenwood in the title role527 DownReveal answer → Arabian camel with a single hump930 DownReveal answer → Department in France named after a tributary of the Seine, whose capital is Châteauroux533 DownReveal answer → Assumed surname of Frederick Austerlitz734 DownReveal answer → Large constellation whose name means whale536 DownReveal answer → Japanese sumo wrestler who holds the record for the most bouts contested in professional sumo1038 DownReveal answer → Early 20th-century dance, done to fast ragtime music and characterised by sideways hopping steps1040 DownReveal answer → The leading female singer in an opera or opera company1041 DownReveal answer → Lady Penelope's butler and chauffeur in Thunderbirds645 DownReveal answer → To ___, poem by John Keats written in September 1819647 DownReveal answer → A Japanese writing system using Chinese characters548 DownReveal answer → A genus of ray, commonly referred to as devil or flying rays649 DownReveal answer → The sovereign of a Muslim country, in particular of the former Ottoman Empire650 DownReveal answer → The Newfoundland dog in J M Barrie's Peter Pan452 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Baghdad454 DownReveal answer → The Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing455 DownReveal answer →

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