The Independent Crossword December 6 2025 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for December 6 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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Desperate41 AcrossReveal answer → Protective covering63 AcrossReveal answer → Thicket58 AcrossReveal answer → Alexander O'Neal's beginning to wear mask?48 AcrossReveal answer → Florida holidaymakers going around another part of America59 AcrossReveal answer → Remainder79 AcrossReveal answer → Cutting One Hundred and One Dalmatians' opening410 AcrossReveal answer → Difference of opinion1210 AcrossReveal answer → 1976 number one single for ABBA, originally recorded by Anni-Frid Lyngstad on her second solo album Frida ensam811 AcrossReveal answer → In short supply611 AcrossReveal answer → Go and act the fool611 AcrossReveal answer → Reduced by 50%612 AcrossReveal answer → Football team promoted to the Premier League as 2014-15 Championship winners1412 AcrossReveal answer → Bring round a new rake ordered in error812 AcrossReveal answer → Amazing quality of blackboards1013 AcrossReveal answer → 2001 song by Linkin Park that gave them their biggest US hit814 AcrossReveal answer → Mississippi-born American soprano awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 19641315 AcrossReveal answer → The art of writing or solving codes1215 AcrossReveal answer → US name for rude noises called raspberries in the UK1116 AcrossReveal answer → Egg-shaped ball left outside museum?416 AcrossReveal answer → Decrease strength417 AcrossReveal answer → Ken ___, US novelist best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest517 AcrossReveal answer → Back complaint718 AcrossReveal answer → Transaction includes cold piece of fish518 AcrossReveal answer → The last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy, described as a "poème dansé"418 AcrossReveal answer → Dirty519 AcrossReveal answer → Evergreen shrub620 AcrossReveal answer → See 461220 AcrossReveal answer → Cry about everything420 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh poet and essayist whose works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood1121 AcrossReveal answer → Network421 AcrossReveal answer → Some bloke inside small deserted hut421 AcrossReveal answer → Musical based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera722 AcrossReveal answer → Handheld device to shoot behind both characters cycling1022 AcrossReveal answer → Double-action carrier823 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of over 100 herbaceous perennial plants of the Umbelliferae family whose umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent625 AcrossReveal answer → Waste time, increasingly sad, with computers instead of women626 AcrossReveal answer → Pen name of former Conservative MP Rupert Allason926 AcrossReveal answer → At last flames spark, hot and crackling?428 AcrossReveal answer → Village in Tyne and Wear through which the A1 used to pass and whose colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 19651028 AcrossReveal answer → Exotic pork pie stuffed inside a northerner's face529 AcrossReveal answer → US novelist and short-story writer whose works include Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away1529 AcrossReveal answer → Document edited twice, but in different ways430 AcrossReveal answer → See 211135 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly, the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony937 AcrossReveal answer → Fine white clay that takes its name from a Chinese mountain638 AcrossReveal answer → Plant widely cultivated for its ornamental leaves and waxy flowers739 AcrossReveal answer → William ___, commander of HMS Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789540 AcrossReveal answer → 1978 single by Earth, Wind & Fire that received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song742 AcrossReveal answer → See 281045 AcrossReveal answer → 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover1246 AcrossReveal answer → Best Actress Oscar-winner for Sophie's Choice1148 AcrossReveal answer → Reversion to an earlier, especially worse, state or condition1350 AcrossReveal answer → 2000 American comedy film narrated by Barry Manilow, played by Tom Green851 AcrossReveal answer → Heroine of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch1452 AcrossReveal answer → The oldest airport in the UK, founded in 1910853 AcrossReveal answer →

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Canadian actor whose films include Point Break, Speed and John Wick111 DownReveal answer → Charlie? Charlie!41 DownReveal answer → Bob down41 DownReveal answer → Prime minister who became Earl of Avon112 DownReveal answer → Calm and relaxation preceding spat?102 DownReveal answer → Exact copy72 DownReveal answer → City on South Island, New Zealand, that is a regional trading centre for sheep and agricultural products123 DownReveal answer → Errors made by young woman full of drink83 DownReveal answer → Atmospheric phenomenon63 DownReveal answer → Senior naval rating124 DownReveal answer → Fete with loud atmosphere44 DownReveal answer → Figure in the legend of King Arthur depicted as being responsible for his downfall74 DownReveal answer → Comfort one with beer65 DownReveal answer → Excessive55 DownReveal answer → Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot85 DownReveal answer → Something under the surface of toilet was discovered46 DownReveal answer → Resistant to control126 DownReveal answer → Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean76 DownReveal answer → Programmes made by sentimental drunk ignoring the news about Britain107 DownReveal answer → Warmed up67 DownReveal answer → The seventh planet from the sun67 DownReveal answer → French name for the Netherlands108 DownReveal answer → American musician, songwriter and bandleader whose songs feature in the musical Five Guys Named Moe119 DownReveal answer → The loss of energy suffered by radiation as it passes through matter, especially as a result of absorption or scattering1110 DownReveal answer → In poor health611 DownReveal answer → Means of conveyance713 DownReveal answer → Large gregarious songbird of the genus Corvus413 DownReveal answer → Take no notice of614 DownReveal answer → Friend runs away after suffering heart tremors1014 DownReveal answer → Children's publication in decline515 DownReveal answer → Delicious (Informal)516 DownReveal answer → Flamboyant playwright - Coward? - lies around1016 DownReveal answer → Traditional story417 DownReveal answer → One's mixed up with revolutionary liberal breaking ranks819 DownReveal answer → British actress whose early films include Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and Whistle Down the Wind1119 DownReveal answer → The curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points822 DownReveal answer → Almost all staff on land straining to be made redundant by me622 DownReveal answer → A member of a North American Indian Iroquois people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the St Lawrence River823 DownReveal answer → Common name for a fish of the Muraenolepididae family624 DownReveal answer → Naked men head up for air424 DownReveal answer → Impressive online photo?425 DownReveal answer → An area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live627 DownReveal answer → 4 is divisible by 2427 DownReveal answer → Maxim, also called the principle of economy, stating that in explaining something assumptions must not be needlessly multiplied1230 DownReveal answer → A 1901 painting by Pablo Picasso, a 1998 play by David Hare or a 1999 EP by Coldplay1131 DownReveal answer → Popular song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke whose two best-selling versions were recorded by the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey in 19401132 DownReveal answer → 1955 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot1133 DownReveal answer → Irish film director best known for My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and The Field1134 DownReveal answer → A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a part1036 DownReveal answer → The second largest of the Channel Islands841 DownReveal answer → One of the small pieces of which a mosaic is made743 DownReveal answer → A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded cones744 DownReveal answer → Member of a light-haired subdivision of the Turanian people, who include the Samoyeds, Voguls, Ostyaks and Magyars647 DownReveal answer → Singer born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong in 1971449 DownReveal answer →

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