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The Independent Crossword December 25 2024 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 59 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 59 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 25 2024. 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Being shelled, company ultimately surrendered, utterly beaten61 AcrossReveal answer → Gift of the Magi51 AcrossReveal answer → Perceive with the eyes34 AcrossReveal answer → Reckoning opener's out, preparing to bat84 AcrossReveal answer → Misprints67 AcrossReveal answer → Floor covering68 AcrossReveal answer → University's invested in property attracting American capital69 AcrossReveal answer → Cock-a-hoop89 AcrossReveal answer → Snooze more than refreshed upset Leo810 AcrossReveal answer → Banded gemstone410 AcrossReveal answer → Approbation1111 AcrossReveal answer → Greek goddess rejecting wings immediately412 AcrossReveal answer → When podcasting, usual browser is appropriate1013 AcrossReveal answer → Passenger pigeon or dodo? Certainly no spring chicken!715 AcrossReveal answer → Playthings415 AcrossReveal answer → Prolific poster heartlessly lying about plans again616 AcrossReveal answer → Brown colour817 AcrossReveal answer → Go without food620 AcrossReveal answer → Daughter hiding inside to avoid notice620 AcrossReveal answer → Large prawns621 AcrossReveal answer → Pastry dish322 AcrossReveal answer → Troublemaker out of prison finally for impeccable behaviour722 AcrossReveal answer → Slightest523 AcrossReveal answer → Rugby forward caught naked in daily strip1024 AcrossReveal answer → Cadet wanting adult in plane?427 AcrossReveal answer → Dine with head following name order829 AcrossReveal answer → Turn 50 with day at space fair630 AcrossReveal answer → Hard base pilot's exploited as landing pad831 AcrossReveal answer → Note saints when checking church alcove632 AcrossReveal answer →

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Inexplicable event71 DownReveal answer → Charity event on the tiles is cancelled unfortunately81 DownReveal answer → Paper finished with further edits92 DownReveal answer → Cook52 DownReveal answer → Bodily organ53 DownReveal answer → Male variant of chromosome or female?43 DownReveal answer → Miserly person74 DownReveal answer → One beating master in gruesome murder75 DownReveal answer → Mournful poem55 DownReveal answer → Identifier of books switching focus, collecting European playwright56 DownReveal answer → Spear of frozen water66 DownReveal answer → They're a-laying Easter eggs, oddly from the bottom57 DownReveal answer → Scottish drone operators?68 DownReveal answer → Ruler being lengthened at either end411 DownReveal answer → Merit712 DownReveal answer → Wealth613 DownReveal answer → Brass instrument714 DownReveal answer → Without 4 iron making longest par on course414 DownReveal answer → Readily available516 DownReveal answer → Dresser from Kentish Town discounted by nearly fifteen pounds417 DownReveal answer → Upright tripod518 DownReveal answer → Game character atop Crib Goch?918 DownReveal answer → Jewelled headdress519 DownReveal answer → Cuckoo ensnared as source of paté819 DownReveal answer → Dressing easy as ABC to nurses721 DownReveal answer → Where dam's found scrubbing a pen?422 DownReveal answer → Ditch foxtrot for tango from Paris, perhaps623 DownReveal answer → Small gem lettuce's beginning to bear fruit525 DownReveal answer → New charging equipment introducing special tolls526 DownReveal answer → One might want to settle in Andover428 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. 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.