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The Independent Crossword December 4 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 53 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 4 2025 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 53 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#
Healthy American eating a Japanese dishFAJITA6Across1 MonthMAY3Across1 Lack of convictionDOUBT5Across3 Beginning to justify mate's untidy stuff getting washed upJETSAM6Across4 IllegalUNLAWFUL8Across7 PileHEAP4Across8 Work out half of 4? Not quitePLAN4Across9 AccordantCONSISTENT10Across9 Established champion claims northern originPROVENANCE10Across10 RarelySELDOM6Across11 Fruit characterised by overly dull jamsTOMATO6Across11 Ancient vampire bats fly without wingsPRIMEVAL8Across12 Insisting on something being difficultDEMANDING9Across13 Babycare facilityCRECHE6Across13 Bargelike vesselNARROWBOAT10Across14 Abandon children, so it's saidCEDE4Across15 Discharge with hard shovePUSH4Across16 Complete housing project by centre of picturesque UK cityDONCASTER9Across17 Ditch around a castleMOAT4Across18 ElasticSTRETCHY8Across19 FortunateLUCKY5Across20 Lack of moisture in canned sardinesARIDNESS8Across21 At the momentNOW3Across21 Good lord! See, on retiring, one's second childhoodOLDAGE6Across22 Forbidden city in Italy (in Italy!), overthrown, initially being isolatedOUTONALIMB10Across24 London team, not established clubWHAM4Across25 Pen 40% of story inside restaurantBISTRO6Across26 Familiar way to have eggs - including a dash of nutmegFRIEND6Across27

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Over the top of muesli, mostly nutsFULSOME7Down1 ConstrainedMANACLED8Down1 Trip one's taken to the south exposing dictatorshipJUNTA5Down2 LongYEARN5Down2 Mistake on documents masks hospital's conditionTYPHOID7Down3 Tin-glazed earthenwareDELFT5Down3 DerangeUNHINGE7Down4 Refer to Skinny being upset? It makes you sick!EMETIC6Down5 Small duckTEAL4Down5 Out of form son unlucky to take EnglishSHAPELESS9Down6 RatifyAFFIRM6Down6 Camera shot captures front of military craft ...MACRAME7Down7 ... support vessel in one's flotilla?COMPANIONSHIP13Down8 Type of TV programmeCHATSHOW8Down10 ExtremeDRASTIC7Down12 Scaredy-catCOWARD6Down13 Like I said regularly - two people, you and I - hard-workingASSIDUOUS9Down14 HazardousRISKY5Down15 Worry as forward with United starts to run backwardsPERTURB7Down16 FrequentlyOFTEN5Down16 ChilledCOOL4Down17 25's clothesCLOBBER7Down18 Country's aim - installing good networkENGLAND7Down19 Marry after extremely regrettable serviceREPAIR6Down20 With spades gathered, should you and I look for water?DOWSE5Down23

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