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The Independent Crossword July 26 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 103 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword July 26 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 103 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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Floater second in this seconds behind first to show?POOHSTICKS10Across1 Central partCORE4Across1 Carefully checkVET3Across3 More or less potty donCAPO4Across7 1934 Cole Porter musical set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to LondonANYTHINGGOES12Across7 Dark beerBROWNALE8Across7 FollowingNEXT4Across8 Leisure time after priest's last afternoon serviceTEASET6Across9 InflammatoryINCENDIARY10Across9 European put waste pipe back on bathSPANIARD8Across10 Designer's private commemorative event curtailed twice by churchGIANNIVERSACE13Across11 American actor whose films include Drugstore Cowboy, Beautiful Girls and CrashMATTDILLON10Across11 Moderate heatWARMTH6Across12 Mother wearing a dress rather than trousers for the high streetMAINDRAG8Across13 Working modelMOCKUP6Across14 A 1991 film starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay CulkinMYGIRL6Across14 Squeeze water out of a thousand fishMANGLE6Across14 Good-for-nothingNEERDOWELL10Across15 A small insectivorous terrestrial lizard of warm regionsGECKO5Across15 Limited by shortfall, is someone able to change supply?LISSOM6Across15 American comedian who wrote the screenplay of the 1992 film Peter's Friends, in which she also acted, with her husband Martin BergmanRITARUDNER10Across16 1995 film starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin SpaceyTHEUSUALSUSPECTS16Across17 Part of song currently going aroundINTHEAIR8Across17 Punishment stickCANE4Across18 Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divineSCARAB6Across18 NeighbourhoodLOCALITY8Across19 Fix sticker on chic patient undergoing treatmentNICOTINEPATCH13Across19 City and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio GrandeNUEVOLAREDO11Across19 ConsumeEAT3Across21 Variety of peach tree whose fruit has a smooth skinNECTARINE9Across21 Blood vesselVEIN4Across22 Find there's no head on English coin, shockingINDECENT8Across22 Jolly dictator beheaded in self-inflicted blunderOUTING6Across23 Live theatre something you're partial to?BENT4Across24 Sam ___, England football manager for 67 days in 2016ALLARDYCE9Across24 Unruly youth unhappy given vase to hold refusedTURNEDDOWN10Across25 English actress who played Annie Palmer in EastEnders from 1997 until 1999NADIASAWALHA12Across26 Stage surname of the American actor born Bernard Schwartz in 1925CURTIS6Across29 North American plant also called a prairie turnipBREADROOT9Across31 A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juiceMAITAI6Across32 German international footballer who made his final appearance for Bayern Munich in a 2–0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the 2025 Club World Cup quarter-finalsTHOMASMLLER11Across33 A variety of Curaçao liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet orangesTRIPLESEC9Across34 Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport who has been MP for Wigan since 2010LISANANDY9Across37 A loose-woven gauzelike cotton fabric used as a material for making shirts and blouses in the 1960s and 1970sCHEESECLOTH11Across38 Formerly a golf club, corresponding to the modern 5 or 6 ironMASHIE6Across40 Italian scholar whose political treatise Defensor pacis is seen as the most revolutionary in the late Middle AgesMARSILIUSOFPADUA16Across42 Welsh opera singer best known for his role as Gio Compario in insurance advertsWYNNEEVANS10Across44 An assembly of four or six wheels forming a pivoted support at either end of a railway coachBOGIE5Across45 The predatory canine mammal, Canis latrans, also called a prairie wolfCOYOTE6Across46 Location of England's largest container portFELIXSTOWE10Across47 Comedian who married Jennifer Saunders in 1985ADEEDMONDSON12Across48

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Hospital-based sitcom that starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli and Richard WilsonONLYWHENILAUGH14Down1 Travelling fairCARNIVAL8Down1 I'm done talking ballsOVER4Down2 UnrefinedRAW3Down2 American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of FlorenceBILLBUFORD10Down2 Sackcloth smeared in ashesHESSIAN7Down3 Chamber of the heartVENTRICLE9Down3 In J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Tom Riddle's diary, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Harry Potter and NaginiHORCRUXES9Down3 2004 album by Green Day following the life of a character called Jesus of SuburbiaAMERICANIDIOT13Down4 CabTAXI4Down4 Bird regularly sat near strange stinky flowerTITANARUM9Down4 One arranging actor's credit in lead for Gladiator?CASTINGDIRECTOR15Down5 Farm buildingBARN4Down5 Inflammation of the earOTITIS6Down5 Insertion of long key?SPACE5Down6 Light gasHELIUM6Down6 Home improvement and garden centre retailer founded by Sainsbury's and Belgian retailer GB-Inno-BM in 1981HOMEBASE8Down6 Trick to keep lips redCRIMSON7Down7 In ancient Rome, an officer elected by the plebs to protect their interestsTRIBUNE7Down8 Bars over entrance left copper climbing window ledgePORTCULLIS10Down8 Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead SoulsGOGOL5Down9 CapableCOMPETENT9Down10 The eighth sign of the zodiacSCORPIO7Down10 News reportBULLETIN8Down11 The largest city in TanzaniaDARESSALAAM11Down12 French lady worried air is cracking pastaPARISIENNE10Down12 ObstacleHURDLE6Down13 Name of the tattooed lady, subject of a Groucho Marx signature songLYDIA5Down13 Police force enjoyed taking Ecstasy, as change from heroinMETHADONE9Down14 Like that duck, prepare to lay eggs without delaySOONEST7Down16 On a single occasionONCE4Down16 DestinyFATE4Down17 Randy Conservative got out of trousersEXCITED7Down18 Italian trains turned up, going nowhereINERT5Down20 FalsehoodLIE3Down20 Sir Alan ___, British playwright and director associated with the Stephen Joseph Theatre in ScarboroughAYCKBOURN9Down20 Son landed upside down in fall on slopes?SNOW4Down21 Leslie ___, Singapore-born British novelist who created the character Simon Templar, known as The SaintCHARTERIS9Down22 1971 single and album by John LennonIMAGINE7Down23 The twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythologyARTEMIS7Down25 The point on the celestial sphere directly below an observerNADIR5Down26 A medical condition characterised by dizziness, abdominal cramp and prostrationHEATEXHAUSTION14Down27 Character in Star Trek: The Next Generation played by Wil WheatonWESLEYCRUSHER13Down28 American actress who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Random HarvestSUSANPETERS11Down30 The important commercial food fish Gadus macrocephalusPACIFICCOD10Down35 Body of water between Siberia and AlaskaBERINGSEA9Down36 Stage name of Eastbourne-born singer Graham Pulleyblank, best known for his 1968 single Little ArrowsLEAPYLEE8Down37 The capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260 and the seat of the country's oldest universityCOIMBRA7Down38 A caliph of the dynasty ruling from 661 to 750 AD from its capital at DamascusOMAYYAD7Down39 The capital of VietnamHANOI5Down41 James ___, Scottish actor whose films include The Last King of Scotland and AtonementMCAVOY6Down42 Common name for the drug amphetamineSPEED5Down43

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, July 26, 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.