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The Independent Crossword December 23 2025 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 60 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 60 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 23 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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Garment part61 AcrossReveal answer → Leg joint44 AcrossReveal answer → Weariness77 AcrossReveal answer → Capital city the writer's visiting47 AcrossReveal answer → Tartan cloth58 AcrossReveal answer → Corporation's software abandoned half written58 AcrossReveal answer → Wading bird510 AcrossReveal answer → Rosemary sometimes writing "Her Former Majesty" in pencil410 AcrossReveal answer → Mass of ice711 AcrossReveal answer → Cycling with back pulled in likewise revealing gear611 AcrossReveal answer → "There once was a woman from Tipperary"? Doesn't work in this Irish city812 AcrossReveal answer → Favoured pupil1112 AcrossReveal answer → Vacuous criminal makes mad blunders813 AcrossReveal answer → Succeeded picking up inconveniently positioned plant root515 AcrossReveal answer → Underwear maybe porters put lower for an earl617 AcrossReveal answer → Party-giver717 AcrossReveal answer → Courageous519 AcrossReveal answer → Parade participant heading off someone with a bow619 AcrossReveal answer → Exchange521 AcrossReveal answer → Paper-folding art722 AcrossReveal answer → Oddly identified no address to return automobile522 AcrossReveal answer → Thaw423 AcrossReveal answer → Boil624 AcrossReveal answer → Unfortunately omit name for fossil824 AcrossReveal answer → Born in a home sadly ignoring social conventions826 AcrossReveal answer → As Hegseth would say, bomb West Asian country629 AcrossReveal answer → Point following better point431 AcrossReveal answer → Place in the ground I access after Everton's opener532 AcrossReveal answer → Old tax man from Glasgow?433 AcrossReveal answer →

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Visitor61 DownReveal answer → Medium-sized milk dish leading couples selected41 DownReveal answer → Passenger ship52 DownReveal answer → Job needed this report of doctor's clients82 DownReveal answer → Found in water73 DownReveal answer → Spoil popular reefs in the middle of the sea63 DownReveal answer → Greek letter54 DownReveal answer → Hairstyle for every maiden44 DownReveal answer → Village footpath or pedestrian shelters65 DownReveal answer → Inspect75 DownReveal answer → Cold-blooded predator caught legendary bird46 DownReveal answer → Advancement116 DownReveal answer → Perfect language69 DownReveal answer → Swarthy49 DownReveal answer → Catch713 DownReveal answer → Brought up dirt having swallowed nationalist pride514 DownReveal answer → Abate714 DownReveal answer → Converse415 DownReveal answer → Something additional arising each spring315 DownReveal answer → Shade of red616 DownReveal answer → Turn inside out nevertheless keeping some of the contents516 DownReveal answer → Happening518 DownReveal answer → Setter starts to seem unnecessarily nuanced318 DownReveal answer → Act that unites legislative body820 DownReveal answer → Adjust520 DownReveal answer → London borough abolishing old hereditary title621 DownReveal answer → Hamburger perhaps for one trying to lose weight623 DownReveal answer → Finished after debut in acting, amateur with lower energy625 DownReveal answer → Egg-shaped figure over goal therefore removed427 DownReveal answer → Limitation of pupil under instruction originally upset teacher428 DownReveal answer → Embodiment of love, painful on the rebound430 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Tuesday, December 23, 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.