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The Independent Crossword December 3 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 51 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 3 2025 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 51 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Will Self regularly rebuffed commendations and words from well-wishersFELICITATIONS13Across1 Piercing toolAWL3Across1 RungTOLLED6Across3 RoadTHOROUGHFARE12Across7 Some unpopular opinions about certain type of vaccineORAL4Across8 PandemoniumCHAOS5Across9 Continued amassing money, or surrendered?ROLLEDOVER10Across9 Three-pronged spearTRIDENT7Across10 Messily eat a Gü dessert, perhapsGATEAU6Across10 Blue dyeINDIGO6Across11 Picture of noodle soup meeting size guidelines?PHOTOFIT8Across11 Drug squad member working on a lead?POLICEDOG9Across12 Set fire toIGNITE6Across13 Fine and kinda sorta brill, maybeFISH4Across14 Total prejudice ultimately knocked back some Aussie nativesEMUS4Across15 Greatly surpriseASTOUND7Across16 Intro to revised volume includes new translationRENDITION9Across16 LukewarmTEPID5Across18 Absent-minded personSCATTERBRAIN12Across19 Playing Uno with Kathy? You shouldn’t have!THANKYOU8Across20 PostureSTANCE6Across20 Type of festive wine drunk without hesitationMULLED6Across21 Weeding toolHOE3Across21 Trustworthy form of ID braceletCREDITABLE10Across23 Corner is not to be cut, you understand?NOOK4Across24 Making bishops possibly snort cocaine’s absurd!CONSECRATIONS13Across25

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Disappointing conclusionANTICLIMAX10Down1 A good way to attempt to hide a right flipping messFARRAGO7Down1 PantherLEOPARD7Down2 French city not very well encapsulated in an article thereLILLE5Down2 HosieryTIGHTS6Down3 About to wake up and drinkCAROUSE7Down3 What you may need to get through to another person?TELEPHONENUMBER15Down4 Race-walking rule violationLIFTING7Down4 Not just any flash British gangstersTHEMOB6Down5 WeirdEERIE5Down5 Old record is guarded by unreasonable audio specialistOTOLOGIST9Down6 DeficitLOSS4Down6 We tucked into small serving of food like köttbullar?SWEDISH7Down7 Number of people presentATTENDANCE10Down8 Greedy personGLUTTON7Down12 Big lizard droppings collected by one academicIGUANODON9Down13 Bring a charge againstIMPEACH7Down14 Otherworldly, oddball hereticETHERIC7Down15 StickADHERE6Down15 Tip dirt on your smartest clothes? That’s extremely stupidDUMBEST7Down17 UnspokenTACIT5Down17 Oppressive individual, awake endlesslyONEROUS7Down18 Brass instrumentTUBA4Down18 Endeavour to cut tree over shrubMYRTLE6Down19 Unfamiliar jargon requires spelling out, partiallyLINGO5Down22

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.