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The Independent Crossword December 4 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 53 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 53 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 4 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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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Healthy American eating a Japanese dish61 AcrossReveal answer → Month31 AcrossReveal answer → Lack of conviction53 AcrossReveal answer → Beginning to justify mate's untidy stuff getting washed up64 AcrossReveal answer → Illegal87 AcrossReveal answer → Pile48 AcrossReveal answer → Work out half of 4? Not quite49 AcrossReveal answer → Accordant109 AcrossReveal answer → Established champion claims northern origin1010 AcrossReveal answer → Rarely611 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit characterised by overly dull jams611 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient vampire bats fly without wings812 AcrossReveal answer → Insisting on something being difficult913 AcrossReveal answer → Babycare facility613 AcrossReveal answer → Bargelike vessel1014 AcrossReveal answer → Abandon children, so it's said415 AcrossReveal answer → Discharge with hard shove416 AcrossReveal answer → Complete housing project by centre of picturesque UK city917 AcrossReveal answer → Ditch around a castle418 AcrossReveal answer → Elastic819 AcrossReveal answer → Fortunate520 AcrossReveal answer → Lack of moisture in canned sardines821 AcrossReveal answer → At the moment321 AcrossReveal answer → Good lord! See, on retiring, one's second childhood622 AcrossReveal answer → Forbidden city in Italy (in Italy!), overthrown, initially being isolated1024 AcrossReveal answer → London team, not established club425 AcrossReveal answer → Pen 40% of story inside restaurant626 AcrossReveal answer → Familiar way to have eggs - including a dash of nutmeg627 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Over the top of muesli, mostly nuts71 DownReveal answer → Constrained81 DownReveal answer → Trip one's taken to the south exposing dictatorship52 DownReveal answer → Long52 DownReveal answer → Mistake on documents masks hospital's condition73 DownReveal answer → Tin-glazed earthenware53 DownReveal answer → Derange74 DownReveal answer → Refer to Skinny being upset? It makes you sick!65 DownReveal answer → Small duck45 DownReveal answer → Out of form son unlucky to take English96 DownReveal answer → Ratify66 DownReveal answer → Camera shot captures front of military craft ...77 DownReveal answer → ... support vessel in one's flotilla?138 DownReveal answer → Type of TV programme810 DownReveal answer → Extreme712 DownReveal answer → Scaredy-cat613 DownReveal answer → Like I said regularly - two people, you and I - hard-working914 DownReveal answer → Hazardous515 DownReveal answer → Worry as forward with United starts to run backwards716 DownReveal answer → Frequently516 DownReveal answer → Chilled417 DownReveal answer → 25's clothes718 DownReveal answer → Country's aim - installing good network719 DownReveal answer → Marry after extremely regrettable service620 DownReveal answer → With spades gathered, should you and I look for water?523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, December 4, 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.