The Independent Crossword July 19 2025 Answers

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Below are all 114 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 19 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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Golden pants fit thief81 AcrossReveal answer → Was victorious31 AcrossReveal answer → Follow-up63 AcrossReveal answer → Began to write in dictionary65 AcrossReveal answer → Sleepover (US)127 AcrossReveal answer → Shift59 AcrossReveal answer → Thick soup710 AcrossReveal answer → The third largest city in Italy610 AcrossReveal answer → Cored fruit, nutty, regularly picked in quantity710 AcrossReveal answer → School member that may attack harp in a rage711 AcrossReveal answer → Trying experience611 AcrossReveal answer → Opening track on The Beatles' album Rubber Soul1012 AcrossReveal answer → Immature creature runs through hot rocks512 AcrossReveal answer → Former province of France that belonged to England from 1154 to 1204513 AcrossReveal answer → Crib613 AcrossReveal answer → People unsettling fringes of Dundee (Scottish football team)914 AcrossReveal answer → Striking, possibly left-wing manoeuvre915 AcrossReveal answer → The cheapest accommodation on a passenger ship815 AcrossReveal answer → BBC sci-fi series first broadcast in 1963916 AcrossReveal answer → Former Greek currency unit716 AcrossReveal answer → State in India whose capital is Kolkata1017 AcrossReveal answer → A tropical plant of the genus Saintpaulia1318 AcrossReveal answer → Foundation518 AcrossReveal answer → Creepy-crawly abandoning cold place inside518 AcrossReveal answer → Emirate to provide name for large language model?519 AcrossReveal answer → Financial statement1219 AcrossReveal answer → BBC children's TV series first broadcast in 1950920 AcrossReveal answer → Church caretaker620 AcrossReveal answer → Bad manners only seen in pub and church920 AcrossReveal answer → Cask321 AcrossReveal answer → See 171022 AcrossReveal answer → Sean, thus deployed, traps Black and Tans922 AcrossReveal answer → A corrugated steel military shelter of semicircular cross section923 AcrossReveal answer → Make over yard area, starting late524 AcrossReveal answer → See 551125 AcrossReveal answer → Take advantage of some candles I lit up on the counter726 AcrossReveal answer → David Copperfield's second wife in the novel by Charles Dickens1427 AcrossReveal answer → Second newspaper to exclude supplement727 AcrossReveal answer → Hallmark of small pen, say, announced629 AcrossReveal answer → English county whose administrative centre is Carlisle730 AcrossReveal answer → When orbit's completed, approximately deviating by a third830 AcrossReveal answer → See 521132 AcrossReveal answer → A natural appendage or outgrowth on or in an organism734 AcrossReveal answer → 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, subtitled A Biography, based in part on the life of Vita Sackville-West735 AcrossReveal answer → Colour of home shirts worn by Manchester City and Coventry City738 AcrossReveal answer → 1955 Satyajit Ray film, the first of the Apu trilogy1439 AcrossReveal answer → Bootsie and ___, TV series that featured Clive Dunn, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser641 AcrossReveal answer → A preserve made by boiling the pulp and rind of citrus fruits, especially oranges, with sugar943 AcrossReveal answer → The ___ Quartet are a San Francisco-based string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973645 AcrossReveal answer → The second largest Australian city, capital of Victoria state947 AcrossReveal answer → The first James Bond film to star Roger Moore1350 AcrossReveal answer → American comedian who played 'Joliet' Jake Blues in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers1152 AcrossReveal answer → 1989 TV comedy drama series starring David Jason as Ted Simcock, based on books by David Nobbs953 AcrossReveal answer → 2nd-century Roman writer noted for his romance The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety854 AcrossReveal answer → TV commentator and presenter who played on eight Ryder Cup teams1155 AcrossReveal answer → Decapod crustacean of the genus Pagurus that inhabits the empty shells of whelks and similar molluscs1056 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Turkey657 AcrossReveal answer →

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More vulnerable artist found in 271 DownReveal answer → 1664 comedy by Molière81 DownReveal answer → Injured71 DownReveal answer → Smoother advert promoting one52 DownReveal answer → 1959 Walt Disney film based on the fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault142 DownReveal answer → Magnanimous52 DownReveal answer → Something charged in Helsinki, Oslo and Tallinn, ultimately33 DownReveal answer → A cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle43 DownReveal answer → Abrade63 DownReveal answer → Mercy74 DownReveal answer → Former tourist attraction in Berkshire that has been converted into a Legoland174 DownReveal answer → Flirted desperately, finally having digits to ring54 DownReveal answer → Additional55 DownReveal answer → 1965 hit single by Fontella Bass85 DownReveal answer → A Chinese green tea also called Lucky Dragon tea56 DownReveal answer → Hair colour96 DownReveal answer → Originally missed, one-nil replay broadcast throughout the year116 DownReveal answer → The capital of Australia's Northern Territory67 DownReveal answer → Nobody in navy working with a child97 DownReveal answer → Absolutely broken television?78 DownReveal answer → The name of four cats owned by The Simpsons88 DownReveal answer → Requirement98 DownReveal answer → The secret intelligence service of Israel69 DownReveal answer → Workers raised repurchase agreement with other workers?89 DownReveal answer → An extensive anchorage in the Orkney Islands that was a major British naval base in both World Wars911 DownReveal answer → Transversely712 DownReveal answer → Air conditioning with constant temperature around capital city is initially easy to adjust1113 DownReveal answer → A sleeveless type of jerkin that is usually quilted1014 DownReveal answer → Make out714 DownReveal answer → Bird of prey615 DownReveal answer → Exposing man beneath oddly dyed hairstyle916 DownReveal answer → Flag book skipping over Isle of Man location817 DownReveal answer → Cognisant517 DownReveal answer → Surround518 DownReveal answer → Sporting equipment's debate719 DownReveal answer → Port in Italy that is capital of Veneto region619 DownReveal answer → Old tree likely to get hollowed out721 DownReveal answer → 1955 William Wyler film starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March, based on a novel and play of the same name by Joseph Hayes1721 DownReveal answer → South American almost battered rice dish523 DownReveal answer → A small parasitic arachnid of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae424 DownReveal answer → One coming out with me to rear plant525 DownReveal answer → 1989 film about the Profumo affair starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt726 DownReveal answer → Mark's long-running EastEnders character328 DownReveal answer → John ___, English actor best known for the 1953 film Genevieve in which he starred with Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan and Kay Kendall728 DownReveal answer → Theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, dedicated to international culture and technological innovation529 DownReveal answer → 1956 British biopic about aviator Douglas Bader starring Kenneth More1431 DownReveal answer → Song by Leonard Cohen that has been covered by John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, k d lang, Alexandra Burke and others1033 DownReveal answer → Russian port known as Molotov between 1940 and 1962436 DownReveal answer → Spongy vascular organ situated near the stomach637 DownReveal answer → Austrian motor-racing driver who was world champion in 1975, 1977 and 1984940 DownReveal answer → Sweet, wine-based French aperitif first sold in 1846842 DownReveal answer → City and port in Spain on the Costa Blanca whose features include the Castle of Santa Bárbara844 DownReveal answer → A published announcement of a death, from the Latin for 'to fall'846 DownReveal answer → A French-built anti-ship missile648 DownReveal answer → ___ Off, 1982 play by Michael Frayn that contains the play-within-a-play Nothing On649 DownReveal answer → Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831551 DownReveal answer → Group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest454 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, July 19, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.