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The Independent Crossword July 12 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword July 12 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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Soothing substanceBALM4Across1 More work inspired by uncut opiateUTOPIA6Across1 AssistantAIDE4Across3 Notices banker's out of line and arrogantCOCKSURE8Across5 Part of a factoryASSEMBLYLINE12Across7 Town in Bavaria that was the site of a Nazi concentration campDACHAU6Across7 Finance officerTREASURER9Across9 Increasingly eccentric Conservative stood by Starmer after a change of heart?CRANKIER8Across9 The third largest toy company in the United States when it was bought by Mattel in 1997TYCO4Across10 Journalists pursue naked handsome chapAPOLLO6Across10 White powder tastes alarmingly like cocaine at firstTALC4Across11 Eurasian liliaceous plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eatenASPARAGUS9Across11 Cleaning implementMOP3Across11 Small wildcatOCELOT6Across12 Sits alone, refreshed after hot shower in winterHAILSTONES10Across12 TV series that began in 1966, following the crew of the starship EnterpriseSTARTREK8Across13 TooASWELL6Across13 Pacific island hotels welcoming statisticians, you heardHONSHU6Across13 1998 film starring Robert De Niro and Jean RenoRONIN5Across14 In the philosophy of Kant, a thing that is incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experienceNOUMENON8Across15 Flying to Peru in outbreakERUPTION8Across15 WeepSOB3Across15 1908 novel by E M Forster featuring the character Lucy HoneychurchAROOMWITHAVIEW14Across16 Inspiring affectionENDEARING9Across17 Joseph ___, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The SpectatorADDISON7Across17 Abuse whisky on a boat in the endMALTREAT8Across18 BedwearNIGHTCLOTHES12Across19 Woman who described Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"LADYCAROLINELAMB16Across19 LazyIDLE4Across21 The capital of EcuadorQUITO5Across22 Pounce on black cat tactically going round trapsATTACK6Across22 Matted fabricFELT4Across22 A large breed of domestic fowl with dense plumage and feathered legsCOCHIN6Across24 The state clears up every other bit of bail reformsRESPUBLICA10Across24 Barrel out of wide streetROAD4Across26 Family purchasing flash old garment from the EastKIMONO6Across27 Prudence, justice, fortitude or temperanceCARDINALVIRTUE14Across27 Run away from introduction to jungle-dweller full of love of most animalsMETAZOAN8Across28 People mostly accepting National Insurance modelMANNIKIN8Across29 Work at home, drinking relatively badlyDIRELY6Across30 1915 Music Hall song credited to William Hargreaves and sung by his wife, Ella Shields, in male attireBURLINGTONBERTIEFROMBOW23Across30 1915 novel by W Somerset Maugham,who had originally planned to call it Beauty from AshesOFHUMANBONDAGE14Across32 Darren ___, golfer from Northern Ireland who won the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George'sCLARKE6Across34 Francis ___, English philosopher, statesman and essayist who was the first Viscount St AlbansBACON5Across35 Novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis BellWUTHERINGHEIGHTS16Across36 Greek goddess whose Roman counterpart is CeresDEMETER7Across41 American marching song about an abolitionist that was popular in the Union during the American Civil WarJOHNBROWNSBODY14Across42 Captain ___, stage name of Ray Burns who played bass for The DamnedSENSIBLE8Across44 Official currency of several countries, including Iraq and SerbiaDINAR5Across46 Australian state whose capital is MelbourneVICTORIA8Across47 Small breed of pet dog with a short wrinkled muzzlePEKINGESE9Across48 Plant of the phylum Filicinophyta that reproduces by spores formed in structures (sori) on its frondsFERN4Across49 Railway station in London that opened in 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham RailwayEUSTON6Across50

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A dry Polish vodka that is distilled from rye and flavoured with a tincture of bison grassZUBROWKA8Down1 Hem inBESIEGE7Down1 The technical name for scarlet feverSCARLATINA10Down2 In Tobago, having left land, sailors notice strong windTORNADO7Down2 Sedimentary rockLIMESTONE9Down2 Group who topped the UK singles chart in 1983 with TrueSPANDAUBALLET13Down3 Still shuts up an alarmPANIC5Down3 Piercing toolAWL3Down3 A burrowing rodent of the genus Citellus also called a gopherGROUNDSQUIRREL14Down4 Durable fabricDENIM5Down4 Suspect a huge disco has no good music for a rave?ACIDHOUSE9Down4 Malarial fever with successive stages of fever and chillsAGUE4Down5 Working animalCARTHORSE9Down5 Compound anxiety about offerCARBIDE7Down5 AspersionSLUR4Down6 See 8ASTARISBORN11Down6 In due course I see the last of chronic back disorderCHAOS5Down6 Empty bucket put with loos after an accident?SLOPOUT7Down7 Film that has starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, Judy Garland and James Mason, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and Lady Gaga and Bradley CooperASTARISBORN11Down8 Express regretAPOLOGISE9Down8 Extremely replete, sit against Oslo's foremost sculptureRELIEVO7Down8 The final song on Elton John's 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released as a single in 1980HARMONY7Down9 OvercomeRISEABOVE9Down10 The second album by Robson & Jerome, released in 1996, that topped the UK album chartTAKETWO7Down10 Surname of the 39th US Vice-President, forced to resign because of criminal chargesAGNEW5Down11 See 23ONEMOMENTINTIME15Down12 Remove flower's root for nothingNIL3Down14 Descriptive nameEPITHET7Down14 In the Vatican, one old priest bores, not having changedUNADAPTED9Down16 ConstructBUILD5Down16 Occasionally maudlin when climbing mountainIDA3Down17 Commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of France named after a man who brought Christianity to the areaSAINTOMER9Down18 Aquatic birdDUCK4Down18 Country elected politician with a cold anger after revolutionAMERICA7Down19 ShadeHUE3Down20 The basic physical unit of electric charge in the cgs-emu system of unitsABCOULOMB9Down20 Husband admitted to mistake about stormTYPHOON7Down20 This African dictator bans special health supplementTHIAMIN7Down21 Felix ___, American pianist and composer of popular music who influenced George GershwinARNDT5Down21 Stained glass expert leaves, soreCHAGALL7Down23 Song by Albert Hammond and John Bettis recorded by Whitney Houston for the 1988 Summer OlympicsONEMOMENTINTIME15Down23 Stop retired military man entering storage unitBLOCK5Down25 Genus of perennial flowering plants that includes the autumn crocus or meadow saffronCOLCHICUM9Down25 The ilium, ischium and pubis, which are fused togetherINNOMINATEBONE14Down26 One who demolishes almost nothing artist's put in the vanRAZER5Down26 See 42JUDGEDREDD10Down28 Elvis Presley Number One hit using the melody of the Italian standard O Sole mioITSNOWORNEVER13Down29 Commune in the Deux-Sèvres department of western France that was the birthplace of film director Henri-Georges ClouzotNIORT5Down31 Brand name of a beer named after the Belgian town in which it was originally made by Norbertine monksGRIMBERGEN10Down33 A colourless odourless flammable gaseous alkane obtained from natural gas and petroleumETHANE6Down37 1967 US Number One single by The Young RascalsGROOVIN7Down38 Genus of boas found in tropical South America whose name is derived from the Greek for "good swimmer"EUNECTES8Down39 Stanley ___ , stamp dealers and philatelic publishing company founded in 1856GIBBONS7Down40 Port and resort in France with a regular ferry service to NewhavenDIEPPE6Down41 Character who first appeared in the British science fiction comic 2000 AD in March 1977JUDGEDREDD10Down42 1982 Stevie Wonder single that reached number 10 in the UK chartDOIDO5Down43 Pen name of the Burmese-born Scottish author H(ector) H(ugh) MunroSAKI4Down45

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, July 12, 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.