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The Independent Crossword July 2 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 51 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword July 2 2025 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 51 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
TierROW3Across1 Small vegetablePEA3Across3 Onward, keeping United just out of the medalsFOURTH6Across5 Arctic plainTUNDRA6Across7 Half of best silver ultimately lost around grandma's flatSTAGNANT8Across7 PardonEXCUSE6Across8 Army unitREGIMENT8Across9 Shape up with sore back in Pakistani cityPESHAWAR8Across9 Genteel date isn't ending in intimacyDAINTY6Across10 Not anyNONE4Across10 AuthoritativeMAGISTERIAL11Across11 Soldiers on horseback annoyed when liberal advanced Christian symbolCALVARYCROSS12Across11 Is going to old women to get woodWILLOW6Across13 WeaponsARMS4Across14 Host on one legLEGION6Across15 Dead endCULDESAC8Across16 Actor toeing the line to stop moral posturingMARLONBRANDO12Across18 Move out ofVACATE6Across19 GaolPRISON6Across20 Muralitharan, for example, elbow bent, essentially mesmerisingBOWLER6Across21 PerishDIE3Across21 Perhaps fear and loathing of computer stools?EMOTIONS8Across22 Small barrelKEG3Across22 Novel battery contains single metal oxideYTTERBIA8Across23 Crowning glory of American health insurance programme heartlessly rejectedDIADEM6Across24

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Closest competitor losing heart about recordsARCHIVAL8Down1 Choice of roads takenROUTE5Down1 Exhibitionist in waterfall?SHOWER6Down2 MarriageWEDDING7Down2 Chinese entertaining food from JapanHANDROLL8Down3 Hickory treePECAN5Down3 Becomes a zombie? That's pantsUNDIES6Down4 Weapons storeARSENAL7Down4 LabyrinthMAZE4Down5 Time to be introduced to one measuring spirit of musical dramaOPERATIC8Down6 Hard-backed insectBEETLE6Down6 Naked African runner tense and harshSTRICT6Down7 Meet once about revealing communicationNOTE4Down8 Mythical sea creatureMERMAID7Down11 HolySACRED6Down12 Contract ends once brokenCONDENSE8Down12 Skating areaICERINK7Down13 A gown to wear at hospital may be kept hereWARDROBE8Down14 No longer freshSTALE5Down15 Importance of Italian desserts salesman finally yielding to VictorGRAVITAS8Down16 Italian city is more up-to-date, some might sayMODENA6Down17 Run with a bounding strideLOPE4Down17 Over the length ofALONG5Down18 Fungal growth is not serious, we recalledMILDEW6Down18 Very keen to have kids, switches sidesBLOODY6Down19 In hiding, run away from homeROUT4Down20

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, July 2, 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.