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The Independent Crossword December 18 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 18 2025 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 56 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
At Arsenal, United fan starts to dance so wildly it makes ground shakeSANANDREASFAULT15Across1 BeholdSEE3Across1 Clothes drying rackAIRER5Across3 Put into a new orderREARRANGE9Across8 Flying mammalBAT3Across9 Mock host screening film 'Big' regularlyMIMIC5Across9 Odious businessman backed ban on the FrenchEXECRABLE9Across10 Turning toolLATHE5Across10 Erotic film produces high-pitched sound - what caused it?PEEPSHOW8Across11 CrustaceanLOBSTER7Across11 Tennis shot entertains with change of direction ...SWERVE6Across12 ProfessionACCOUNTANCY11Across13 ... and following shot not in courtGOOUTWITH9Across14 Supporter on track about to get run overRECAP5Across16 IllnessAILMENT7Across17 Greyish-brownTAUPE5Across18 Very large wardrobe separates clothesOBESE5Across18 Crack cocaine around ship - coming onboardACCESSION9Across19 Quite popular thing to doINDEED6Across20 CaskTUN3Across20 Tennis infringementFOOTFAULT9Across21 DaftSILLY5Across22 A Welsh woman reportedly avoided illness in pandemicASIANFLU8Across22 Metal fastenerPIN3Across23 Hand over old business, it's stuffedEXTRADITE9Across26 Mean ratbag finally knocking out cold, unappetising mealGRUEL5Across27 Posh area's reputation ruined with start of rock bandSTOCKBROKERBELT15Across28

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Review first three parts of music?SUMUP5Down1 Without doubtSURELY6Down1 Initially nervous individual seals off brownish leakNUMBERONE9Down2 GlorifyEXALT5Down2 Help oneself to son's chipsNICKS5Down3 PrimateAPE3Down3 Ignoring wife, write choral works over-elaborate in styleRHETORICAL10Down4 Like an automatonROBOTIC7Down4 National Trust eschews God Save the King? I doubt that!AHEM4Down5 Sharp replyRETORT6Down5 Wire melts in separate small explosionsFIREWORKS9Down6 GhastlyGRUESOME8Down6 Permit entry into godless Scottish town?UNBAR5Down7 TendencyINCLINATION11Down7 Pure note played capturing hearts immediatelyTHEREUPON9Down8 Make attractiveBEAUTIFY8Down12 Cut and hurl piece of spruce woodCHUCKSTEAK10Down13 Inane nature of noises fashioned by beginner in guitarGOOFINESS9Down14 OfficerCOLONEL7Down14 In Disneyland, maybe politician takes refuge in wooden shelterTHEMEPARK9Down15 Desert plantCACTUS6Down15 DefeatedBEATEN6Down16 Foreign Office to employ locks expertCOIFFEUSE9Down17 Take by forceUSURP5Down19 Papers lying about excessive returns as beforeDITTO5Down21 Travel by airFLY3Down21 Put out stove, sinking last of lobsterANGER5Down23 Perhaps squadron guards left in the darkUNLIT5Down24 Suffering 50% cut, like army's pork pie supplierLIAR4Down25

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, December 18, 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.