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The Independent Crossword December 18 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 18 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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At Arsenal, United fan starts to dance so wildly it makes ground shake151 AcrossReveal answer → Behold31 AcrossReveal answer → Clothes drying rack53 AcrossReveal answer → Put into a new order98 AcrossReveal answer → Flying mammal39 AcrossReveal answer → Mock host screening film 'Big' regularly59 AcrossReveal answer → Odious businessman backed ban on the French910 AcrossReveal answer → Turning tool510 AcrossReveal answer → Erotic film produces high-pitched sound - what caused it?811 AcrossReveal answer → Crustacean711 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis shot entertains with change of direction ...612 AcrossReveal answer → Profession1113 AcrossReveal answer → ... and following shot not in court914 AcrossReveal answer → Supporter on track about to get run over516 AcrossReveal answer → Illness717 AcrossReveal answer → Greyish-brown518 AcrossReveal answer → Very large wardrobe separates clothes518 AcrossReveal answer → Crack cocaine around ship - coming onboard919 AcrossReveal answer → Quite popular thing to do620 AcrossReveal answer → Cask320 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis infringement921 AcrossReveal answer → Daft522 AcrossReveal answer → A Welsh woman reportedly avoided illness in pandemic822 AcrossReveal answer → Metal fastener323 AcrossReveal answer → Hand over old business, it's stuffed926 AcrossReveal answer → Mean ratbag finally knocking out cold, unappetising meal527 AcrossReveal answer → Posh area's reputation ruined with start of rock band1528 AcrossReveal answer →

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Review first three parts of music?51 DownReveal answer → Without doubt61 DownReveal answer → Initially nervous individual seals off brownish leak92 DownReveal answer → Glorify52 DownReveal answer → Help oneself to son's chips53 DownReveal answer → Primate33 DownReveal answer → Ignoring wife, write choral works over-elaborate in style104 DownReveal answer → Like an automaton74 DownReveal answer → National Trust eschews God Save the King? I doubt that!45 DownReveal answer → Sharp reply65 DownReveal answer → Wire melts in separate small explosions96 DownReveal answer → Ghastly86 DownReveal answer → Permit entry into godless Scottish town?57 DownReveal answer → Tendency117 DownReveal answer → Pure note played capturing hearts immediately98 DownReveal answer → Make attractive812 DownReveal answer → Cut and hurl piece of spruce wood1013 DownReveal answer → Inane nature of noises fashioned by beginner in guitar914 DownReveal answer → Officer714 DownReveal answer → In Disneyland, maybe politician takes refuge in wooden shelter915 DownReveal answer → Desert plant615 DownReveal answer → Defeated616 DownReveal answer → Foreign Office to employ locks expert917 DownReveal answer → Take by force519 DownReveal answer → Papers lying about excessive returns as before521 DownReveal answer → Travel by air321 DownReveal answer → Put out stove, sinking last of lobster523 DownReveal answer → Perhaps squadron guards left in the dark524 DownReveal answer → Suffering 50% cut, like army's pork pie supplier425 DownReveal answer →

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