The Independent Crossword July 12 2025 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 12 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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Soothing substance41 AcrossReveal answer → More work inspired by uncut opiate61 AcrossReveal answer → Assistant43 AcrossReveal answer → Notices banker's out of line and arrogant85 AcrossReveal answer → Part of a factory127 AcrossReveal answer → Town in Bavaria that was the site of a Nazi concentration camp67 AcrossReveal answer → Finance officer99 AcrossReveal answer → Increasingly eccentric Conservative stood by Starmer after a change of heart?89 AcrossReveal answer → The third largest toy company in the United States when it was bought by Mattel in 1997410 AcrossReveal answer → Journalists pursue naked handsome chap610 AcrossReveal answer → White powder tastes alarmingly like cocaine at first411 AcrossReveal answer → Eurasian liliaceous plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten911 AcrossReveal answer → Cleaning implement311 AcrossReveal answer → Small wildcat612 AcrossReveal answer → Sits alone, refreshed after hot shower in winter1012 AcrossReveal answer → TV series that began in 1966, following the crew of the starship Enterprise813 AcrossReveal answer → Too613 AcrossReveal answer → Pacific island hotels welcoming statisticians, you heard613 AcrossReveal answer → 1998 film starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno514 AcrossReveal answer → In the philosophy of Kant, a thing that is incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience815 AcrossReveal answer → Flying to Peru in outbreak815 AcrossReveal answer → Weep315 AcrossReveal answer → 1908 novel by E M Forster featuring the character Lucy Honeychurch1416 AcrossReveal answer → Inspiring affection917 AcrossReveal answer → Joseph ___, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator717 AcrossReveal answer → Abuse whisky on a boat in the end818 AcrossReveal answer → Bedwear1219 AcrossReveal answer → Woman who described Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"1619 AcrossReveal answer → Lazy421 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Ecuador522 AcrossReveal answer → Pounce on black cat tactically going round traps622 AcrossReveal answer → Matted fabric422 AcrossReveal answer → A large breed of domestic fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs624 AcrossReveal answer → The state clears up every other bit of bail reforms1024 AcrossReveal answer → Barrel out of wide street426 AcrossReveal answer → Family purchasing flash old garment from the East627 AcrossReveal answer → Prudence, justice, fortitude or temperance1427 AcrossReveal answer → Run away from introduction to jungle-dweller full of love of most animals828 AcrossReveal answer → People mostly accepting National Insurance model829 AcrossReveal answer → Work at home, drinking relatively badly630 AcrossReveal answer → 1915 Music Hall song credited to William Hargreaves and sung by his wife, Ella Shields, in male attire2330 AcrossReveal answer → 1915 novel by W Somerset Maugham,who had originally planned to call it Beauty from Ashes1432 AcrossReveal answer → Darren ___, golfer from Northern Ireland who won the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's634 AcrossReveal answer → Francis ___, English philosopher, statesman and essayist who was the first Viscount St Albans535 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell1636 AcrossReveal answer → Greek goddess whose Roman counterpart is Ceres741 AcrossReveal answer → American marching song about an abolitionist that was popular in the Union during the American Civil War1442 AcrossReveal answer → Captain ___, stage name of Ray Burns who played bass for The Damned844 AcrossReveal answer → Official currency of several countries, including Iraq and Serbia546 AcrossReveal answer → Australian state whose capital is Melbourne847 AcrossReveal answer → Small breed of pet dog with a short wrinkled muzzle948 AcrossReveal answer → Plant of the phylum Filicinophyta that reproduces by spores formed in structures (sori) on its fronds449 AcrossReveal answer → Railway station in London that opened in 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway650 AcrossReveal answer →

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A dry Polish vodka that is distilled from rye and flavoured with a tincture of bison grass81 DownReveal answer → Hem in71 DownReveal answer → The technical name for scarlet fever102 DownReveal answer → In Tobago, having left land, sailors notice strong wind72 DownReveal answer → Sedimentary rock92 DownReveal answer → Group who topped the UK singles chart in 1983 with True133 DownReveal answer → Still shuts up an alarm53 DownReveal answer → Piercing tool33 DownReveal answer → A burrowing rodent of the genus Citellus also called a gopher144 DownReveal answer → Durable fabric54 DownReveal answer → Suspect a huge disco has no good music for a rave?94 DownReveal answer → Malarial fever with successive stages of fever and chills45 DownReveal answer → Working animal95 DownReveal answer → Compound anxiety about offer75 DownReveal answer → Aspersion46 DownReveal answer → See 8116 DownReveal answer → In due course I see the last of chronic back disorder56 DownReveal answer → Empty bucket put with loos after an accident?77 DownReveal answer → Film that has starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, Judy Garland and James Mason, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper118 DownReveal answer → Express regret98 DownReveal answer → Extremely replete, sit against Oslo's foremost sculpture78 DownReveal answer → The final song on Elton John's 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released as a single in 198079 DownReveal answer → Overcome910 DownReveal answer → The second album by Robson & Jerome, released in 1996, that topped the UK album chart710 DownReveal answer → Surname of the 39th US Vice-President, forced to resign because of criminal charges511 DownReveal answer → See 231512 DownReveal answer → Remove flower's root for nothing314 DownReveal answer → Descriptive name714 DownReveal answer → In the Vatican, one old priest bores, not having changed916 DownReveal answer → Construct516 DownReveal answer → Occasionally maudlin when climbing mountain317 DownReveal answer → Commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of France named after a man who brought Christianity to the area918 DownReveal answer → Aquatic bird418 DownReveal answer → Country elected politician with a cold anger after revolution719 DownReveal answer → Shade320 DownReveal answer → The basic physical unit of electric charge in the cgs-emu system of units920 DownReveal answer → Husband admitted to mistake about storm720 DownReveal answer → This African dictator bans special health supplement721 DownReveal answer → Felix ___, American pianist and composer of popular music who influenced George Gershwin521 DownReveal answer → Stained glass expert leaves, sore723 DownReveal answer → Song by Albert Hammond and John Bettis recorded by Whitney Houston for the 1988 Summer Olympics1523 DownReveal answer → Stop retired military man entering storage unit525 DownReveal answer → Genus of perennial flowering plants that includes the autumn crocus or meadow saffron925 DownReveal answer → The ilium, ischium and pubis, which are fused together1426 DownReveal answer → One who demolishes almost nothing artist's put in the van526 DownReveal answer → See 421028 DownReveal answer → Elvis Presley Number One hit using the melody of the Italian standard O Sole mio1329 DownReveal answer → Commune in the Deux-Sèvres department of western France that was the birthplace of film director Henri-Georges Clouzot531 DownReveal answer → Brand name of a beer named after the Belgian town in which it was originally made by Norbertine monks1033 DownReveal answer → A colourless odourless flammable gaseous alkane obtained from natural gas and petroleum637 DownReveal answer → 1967 US Number One single by The Young Rascals738 DownReveal answer → Genus of boas found in tropical South America whose name is derived from the Greek for "good swimmer"839 DownReveal answer → Stanley ___ , stamp dealers and philatelic publishing company founded in 1856740 DownReveal answer → Port and resort in France with a regular ferry service to Newhaven641 DownReveal answer → Character who first appeared in the British science fiction comic 2000 AD in March 19771042 DownReveal answer → 1982 Stevie Wonder single that reached number 10 in the UK chart543 DownReveal answer → Pen name of the Burmese-born Scottish author H(ector) H(ugh) Munro445 DownReveal answer →

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