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The Independent Crossword December 21 2025 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 51 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 51 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 21 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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Relating to public worship101 AcrossReveal answer → Shout out for Hearts in matches, yelling "Goal"81 AcrossReveal answer → Army doctor shifted hips down a bit66 AcrossReveal answer → See note148 AcrossReveal answer → American backing Trump's third term in newspaper article - strange world69 AcrossReveal answer → Denunciation89 AcrossReveal answer → Seller610 AcrossReveal answer → Half undressed man checked out810 AcrossReveal answer → Come a cropper611 AcrossReveal answer → Mop tea from cups411 AcrossReveal answer → ?912 AcrossReveal answer → Irish writer on a bender beginning to imagine novel1012 AcrossReveal answer → English really get mushy about love at times1213 AcrossReveal answer → Greek character returned call in full pub1217 AcrossReveal answer → Large wine bottle617 AcrossReveal answer → Completely619 AcrossReveal answer → Prisoners' tea mum arranged, complete with relations1020 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican pancake821 AcrossReveal answer → ?422 AcrossReveal answer → Duck after spies see you in Rome423 AcrossReveal answer → See 81423 AcrossReveal answer → Legless board work on drug dose824 AcrossReveal answer → Fitter batters you'd expect to make fewer runs otherwise625 AcrossReveal answer → Parking behind college a considerable distance626 AcrossReveal answer → Forcibly make a sailor dangle aloft, caught on spar's tip827 AcrossReveal answer →

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Become thinner? Order a fryer62 DownReveal answer → Annoyed52 DownReveal answer → Chinese toilet you're in starts to test everything93 DownReveal answer → ?73 DownReveal answer → Route through grandstand is covered with beer54 DownReveal answer → Colossal54 DownReveal answer → Madonna covers numbers Rolling Stones worked on75 DownReveal answer → Explosive material75 DownReveal answer → Travel writer back from Cairo cut old stuff up96 DownReveal answer → ?66 DownReveal answer → E.g. stud to sleep with queen57 DownReveal answer → Group of witches57 DownReveal answer → Cooking nerd used clove88 DownReveal answer → Ceaseless713 DownReveal answer → Old London prison714 DownReveal answer → Doctor came in GTi without an obvious explanation914 DownReveal answer → In great numbers615 DownReveal answer → Putting feathers on lady's head, going to get clips915 DownReveal answer → Landscape painter introduced to father, or rather mother816 DownReveal answer → Braid516 DownReveal answer → Dolphin swims up Margate's harbours on the ebb718 DownReveal answer → Tooth518 DownReveal answer → Trouble that you have to step across climbing ornate tower619 DownReveal answer → Spirit-dispensing device520 DownReveal answer → Retailer's exchanges left in envelopes to be returned521 DownReveal answer → Half of fans in restaurant? More522 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, December 21, 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.