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The Independent Crossword December 6 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword December 6 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 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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DesperateDIRE4Across1 Protective coveringARMOUR6Across3 ThicketCOPSE5Across8 Alexander O'Neal's beginning to wear mask?POPE4Across8 Florida holidaymakers going around another part of AmericaIDAHO5Across9 RemainderRESIDUE7Across9 Cutting One Hundred and One Dalmatians' openingACID4Across10 Difference of opinionDISAGREEMENT12Across10 1976 number one single for ABBA, originally recorded by Anni-Frid Lyngstad on her second solo album Frida ensamFERNANDO8Across11 In short supplySCARCE6Across11 Go and act the foolBEATIT6Across11 Reduced by 50%HALVED6Across12 Football team promoted to the Premier League as 2014-15 Championship winnersAFCBOURNEMOUTH14Across12 Bring round a new rake ordered in errorREAWAKEN8Across12 Amazing quality of blackboardsREMARKABLE10Across13 2001 song by Linkin Park that gave them their biggest US hitINTHEEND8Across14 Mississippi-born American soprano awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964LEONTYNEPRICE13Across15 The art of writing or solving codesCRYPTOGRAPHY12Across15 US name for rude noises called raspberries in the UKBRONXCHEERS11Across16 Egg-shaped ball left outside museum?OVAL4Across16 Decrease strengthIRON4Across17 Ken ___, US novelist best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKESEY5Across17 Back complaintLUMBAGO7Across18 Transaction includes cold piece of fishSCALE5Across18 The last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy, described as a "poème dansé"JEUX4Across18 DirtyMUCKY5Across19 Evergreen shrubMYRTLE6Across20 See 46CAUSECELEBRE12Across20 Cry about everythingCALL4Across20 Welsh poet and essayist whose works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk WoodDYLANTHOMAS11Across21 NetworkMESH4Across21 Some bloke inside small deserted hutSHED4Across21 Musical based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a CameraCABARET7Across22 Handheld device to shoot behind both characters cyclingTOOTHBRUSH10Across22 Double-action carrierSUITCASE8Across23 Genus of over 100 herbaceous perennial plants of the Umbelliferae family whose umbels are compound, with bracts few or absentSESELI6Across25 Waste time, increasingly sad, with computers instead of womenLOITER6Across26 Pen name of former Conservative MP Rupert AllasonNIGELWEST9Across26 At last flames spark, hot and crackling?SKIN4Across28 Village in Tyne and Wear through which the A1 used to pass and whose colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 1965SEATONBURN10Across28 Exotic pork pie stuffed inside a northerner's faceALIEN5Across29 US novelist and short-story writer whose works include Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it AwayFLANNERYOCONNOR15Across29 Document edited twice, but in different waysDEED4Across30 See 21DYLANTHOMAS11Across35 Formerly, the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felonyATTAINDER9Across37 Fine white clay that takes its name from a Chinese mountainKAOLIN6Across38 Plant widely cultivated for its ornamental leaves and waxy flowersBEGONIA7Across39 William ___, commander of HMS Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789BLIGH5Across40 1978 single by Earth, Wind & Fire that received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B SongFANTASY7Across42 See 28SEATONBURN10Across45 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage loverCAUSECELEBRE12Across46 Best Actress Oscar-winner for Sophie's ChoiceMERYLSTREEP11Across48 Reversion to an earlier, especially worse, state or conditionRETROGRESSION13Across50 2000 American comedy film narrated by Barry Manilow, played by Tom GreenROADTRIP8Across51 Heroine of George Eliot's novel MiddlemarchDOROTHEABROOKE14Across52 The oldest airport in the UK, founded in 1910SHOREHAM8Across53

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Canadian actor whose films include Point Break, Speed and John WickKEANUREEVES11Down1 Charlie? Charlie!DOPE4Down1 Bob downDUCK4Down1 Prime minister who became Earl of AvonANTHONYEDEN11Down2 Calm and relaxation preceding spat?RESTRAINED10Down2 Exact copyREPLICA7Down2 City on South Island, New Zealand, that is a regional trading centre for sheep and agricultural productsINVERCARGILL12Down3 Errors made by young woman full of drinkMISTAKES8Down3 Atmospheric phenomenonAURORA6Down3 Senior naval ratingMASTERATARMS12Down4 Fete with loud atmosphereFAIR4Down4 Figure in the legend of King Arthur depicted as being responsible for his downfallMORDRED7Down4 Comfort one with beerSOLACE6Down5 ExcessiveUNDUE5Down5 Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamotEARLGREY8Down5 Something under the surface of toilet was discoveredLAVA4Down6 Resistant to controlRECALCITRANT12Down6 Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific OceanKONTIKI7Down6 Programmes made by sentimental drunk ignoring the news about BritainTIMETABLES10Down7 Warmed upHEATED6Down7 The seventh planet from the sunURANUS6Down7 French name for the NetherlandsLESPAYSBAS10Down8 American musician, songwriter and bandleader whose songs feature in the musical Five Guys Named MoeLOUISJORDAN11Down9 The loss of energy suffered by radiation as it passes through matter, especially as a result of absorption or scatteringATTENUATION11Down10 In poor healthSICKLY6Down11 Means of conveyanceVEHICLE7Down13 Large gregarious songbird of the genus CorvusCROW4Down13 Take no notice ofIGNORE6Down14 Friend runs away after suffering heart tremorsEARTHQUAKE10Down14 Children's publication in declineBEANO5Down15 Delicious (Informal)YUMMY5Down16 Flamboyant playwright - Coward? - lies aroundOSCARWILDE10Down16 Traditional storyMYTH4Down17 One's mixed up with revolutionary liberal breaking ranksECHELONS8Down19 British actress whose early films include Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and Whistle Down the WindHAYLEYMILLS11Down19 The curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two pointsCATENARY8Down22 Almost all staff on land straining to be made redundant by meTEABAG6Down22 A member of a North American Indian Iroquois people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the St Lawrence RiverONONDAGA8Down23 Common name for a fish of the Muraenolepididae familyEELCOD6Down24 Naked men head up for airTUNE4Down24 Impressive online photo?EPIC4Down25 An area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to liveGHETTO6Down27 4 is divisible by 2EVEN4Down27 Maxim, also called the principle of economy, stating that in explaining something assumptions must not be needlessly multipliedOCKHAMSRAZOR12Down30 A 1901 painting by Pablo Picasso, a 1998 play by David Hare or a 1999 EP by ColdplayTHEBLUEROOM11Down31 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 1940IMAGINATION11Down32 1955 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte BardotDOCTORATSEA11Down33 Irish film director best known for My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and The FieldJIMSHERIDAN11Down34 A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a partSYNECDOCHE10Down36 The second largest of the Channel IslandsGUERNSEY8Down41 One of the small pieces of which a mosaic is madeTESSERA7Down43 A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded conesCYPRESS7Down44 Member of a light-haired subdivision of the Turanian people, who include the Samoyeds, Voguls, Ostyaks and MagyarsUGRIAN6Down47 Singer born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong in 1971DIDO4Down49

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, December 6, 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.