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The Independent Crossword December 28 2025 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 52 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 28 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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Temporary vintage carrier bag for one girl91 AcrossReveal answer → Power tool111 AcrossReveal answer → Handle fuse with electric current through it56 AcrossReveal answer → Blood vessel47 AcrossReveal answer → See note188 AcrossReveal answer → Movement Republican party guards against59 AcrossReveal answer → Winter sports equipment89 AcrossReveal answer → Comply with410 AcrossReveal answer → Lame man's right to jog910 AcrossReveal answer → Froth511 AcrossReveal answer → Mark US agent covered around his neck711 AcrossReveal answer → These house torsos with head hidden712 AcrossReveal answer → Oneness513 AcrossReveal answer → Trademark on counterfeit jewel, back-to-front little flowers1213 AcrossReveal answer → Old couple going round ruined castle hampered event1217 AcrossReveal answer → ?417 AcrossReveal answer → ?819 AcrossReveal answer → Dull Mondays regularly boring princess720 AcrossReveal answer → Appropriate721 AcrossReveal answer → End of term decided on by start of last period721 AcrossReveal answer → Too422 AcrossReveal answer → Doctor visually very attractive, swanky surgery admits922 AcrossReveal answer → Well-to-do urbanite keeps something to sniff523 AcrossReveal answer → See 81823 AcrossReveal answer → Principle superficially true and clear524 AcrossReveal answer → Metal zip's inside covered by plastic dummy one925 AcrossReveal answer →

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Magnetism reversed like that very strongly repels81 DownReveal answer → ?71 DownReveal answer → Agree offhand about Norway suiting vegans82 DownReveal answer → Approach52 DownReveal answer → English cricket side wearing grey refuse to use old bat153 DownReveal answer → Ill63 DownReveal answer → Pest turned up every year then disappeared54 DownReveal answer → Among64 DownReveal answer → Bit of music in Psycho arranged for orchestra95 DownReveal answer → ?75 DownReveal answer → Informally, jam makers turning more to chutney156 DownReveal answer → Flinch56 DownReveal answer → Obelix irreversibly imbued with magic potion67 DownReveal answer → Pass on joke you hear in summarised version68 DownReveal answer → Body of citizen soldiers712 DownReveal answer → Crime against the state714 DownReveal answer → Fussy manager runs through ground then home914 DownReveal answer → Italian sandwiches615 DownReveal answer → Graduate arranged air-con for penguin815 DownReveal answer → Mark of social disgrace616 DownReveal answer → Message shortening tenancy brought over816 DownReveal answer → Roast beef out of this world618 DownReveal answer → Firearm518 DownReveal answer → Shelter for longer beneath palm tree619 DownReveal answer → Middle-Easterner520 DownReveal answer → Drinker really after drop521 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, December 28, 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.