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The Independent Crossword December 3 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 51 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 51 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 3 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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Will Self regularly rebuffed commendations and words from well-wishers131 AcrossReveal answer → Piercing tool31 AcrossReveal answer → Rung63 AcrossReveal answer → Road127 AcrossReveal answer → Some unpopular opinions about certain type of vaccine48 AcrossReveal answer → Pandemonium59 AcrossReveal answer → Continued amassing money, or surrendered?109 AcrossReveal answer → Three-pronged spear710 AcrossReveal answer → Messily eat a Gü dessert, perhaps610 AcrossReveal answer → Blue dye611 AcrossReveal answer → Picture of noodle soup meeting size guidelines?811 AcrossReveal answer → Drug squad member working on a lead?912 AcrossReveal answer → Set fire to613 AcrossReveal answer → Fine and kinda sorta brill, maybe414 AcrossReveal answer → Total prejudice ultimately knocked back some Aussie natives415 AcrossReveal answer → Greatly surprise716 AcrossReveal answer → Intro to revised volume includes new translation916 AcrossReveal answer → Lukewarm518 AcrossReveal answer → Absent-minded person1219 AcrossReveal answer → Playing Uno with Kathy? You shouldn’t have!820 AcrossReveal answer → Posture620 AcrossReveal answer → Type of festive wine drunk without hesitation621 AcrossReveal answer → Weeding tool321 AcrossReveal answer → Trustworthy form of ID bracelet1023 AcrossReveal answer → Corner is not to be cut, you understand?424 AcrossReveal answer → Making bishops possibly snort cocaine’s absurd!1325 AcrossReveal answer →

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Disappointing conclusion101 DownReveal answer → A good way to attempt to hide a right flipping mess71 DownReveal answer → Panther72 DownReveal answer → French city not very well encapsulated in an article there52 DownReveal answer → Hosiery63 DownReveal answer → About to wake up and drink73 DownReveal answer → What you may need to get through to another person?154 DownReveal answer → Race-walking rule violation74 DownReveal answer → Not just any flash British gangsters65 DownReveal answer → Weird55 DownReveal answer → Old record is guarded by unreasonable audio specialist96 DownReveal answer → Deficit46 DownReveal answer → We tucked into small serving of food like köttbullar?77 DownReveal answer → Number of people present108 DownReveal answer → Greedy person712 DownReveal answer → Big lizard droppings collected by one academic913 DownReveal answer → Bring a charge against714 DownReveal answer → Otherworldly, oddball heretic715 DownReveal answer → Stick615 DownReveal answer → Tip dirt on your smartest clothes? That’s extremely stupid717 DownReveal answer → Unspoken517 DownReveal answer → Oppressive individual, awake endlessly718 DownReveal answer → Brass instrument418 DownReveal answer → Endeavour to cut tree over shrub619 DownReveal answer → Unfamiliar jargon requires spelling out, partially522 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, December 3, 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.