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The Independent Crossword December 22 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 22 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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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
George’s scheme involving one chasing car141 AcrossReveal answer → Expression calling for attention31 AcrossReveal answer → Surety43 AcrossReveal answer → See 1a146 AcrossReveal answer → Piste67 AcrossReveal answer → Fanatic68 AcrossReveal answer → Smile broadly49 AcrossReveal answer → Plane diverted somewhere in Asia59 AcrossReveal answer → Sacking every good person, rock station put off everybody910 AcrossReveal answer → Slipshod810 AcrossReveal answer → Flowing waters engulf men with one going missing811 AcrossReveal answer → Mess (Informal)1311 AcrossReveal answer → Exaggerate malfunction612 AcrossReveal answer → Luvvie going over to embrace with smoochy sound414 AcrossReveal answer → Stringed instrument815 AcrossReveal answer → Joanna (my Mum’s mum) paid for renovation? Over my dead body!1015 AcrossReveal answer → Struggling, naked, are we born again?1018 AcrossReveal answer → Impetuous418 AcrossReveal answer → Rum, say, is licensed exclusively at first419 AcrossReveal answer → Recumbent620 AcrossReveal answer → Almost621 AcrossReveal answer → Announce sailor from the East’s election621 AcrossReveal answer → Hint422 AcrossReveal answer → Age323 AcrossReveal answer → Wing, maybe pro-British, inspiring return of imperial measurement823 AcrossReveal answer → Transcends right and wrong reversing sign of aging926 AcrossReveal answer → Friend from Potsdam I googled527 AcrossReveal answer → Political skullduggery as small business replaced MP’s car again1428 AcrossReveal answer → See 28A1429 AcrossReveal answer →

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Walker51 DownReveal answer → Mass burial twice in awfully catastrophic year141 DownReveal answer → Big cheese beat restriction, having discovered tax not applicable92 DownReveal answer → Underpants72 DownReveal answer → Mankini looked “lovely” on vacation - euphemistic to put it thus63 DownReveal answer → Portable rocket-launcher73 DownReveal answer → Unusual result, ergo, put a pin in it104 DownReveal answer → Unintelligent54 DownReveal answer → Ruminate about shape45 DownReveal answer → Burden45 DownReveal answer → Run off after writer - she waited a long time86 DownReveal answer → French form of bowls66 DownReveal answer → Green field fairly empty57 DownReveal answer → Directories help one to be organised, fair and ultimately scrupulous148 DownReveal answer → Not translucent612 DownReveal answer → Take over from713 DownReveal answer → Failing to meet man right before death1013 DownReveal answer → Very hot chamber714 DownReveal answer → See 1D1414 DownReveal answer → Repetitious training516 DownReveal answer → Aisling Bea briefly floundering - way to let people down!916 DownReveal answer → Navvy’s dog more sullen when daughter's not around817 DownReveal answer → Not any417 DownReveal answer → Latin dance style519 DownReveal answer → State in North America welcoming drummer Grohl turning up620 DownReveal answer → US bank oddly lied to recruit First Lady522 DownReveal answer → See 8D1424 DownReveal answer → Very impressive bit of extreme picnicking425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, December 22, 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.