The Independent Crossword July 26 2025 Answers

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Below are all 103 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 26 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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Floater second in this seconds behind first to show?101 AcrossReveal answer → Central part41 AcrossReveal answer → Carefully check33 AcrossReveal answer → More or less potty don47 AcrossReveal answer → 1934 Cole Porter musical set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London127 AcrossReveal answer → Dark beer87 AcrossReveal answer → Following48 AcrossReveal answer → Leisure time after priest's last afternoon service69 AcrossReveal answer → Inflammatory109 AcrossReveal answer → European put waste pipe back on bath810 AcrossReveal answer → Designer's private commemorative event curtailed twice by church1311 AcrossReveal answer → American actor whose films include Drugstore Cowboy, Beautiful Girls and Crash1011 AcrossReveal answer → Moderate heat612 AcrossReveal answer → Mother wearing a dress rather than trousers for the high street813 AcrossReveal answer → Working model614 AcrossReveal answer → A 1991 film starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin614 AcrossReveal answer → Squeeze water out of a thousand fish614 AcrossReveal answer → Good-for-nothing1015 AcrossReveal answer → A small insectivorous terrestrial lizard of warm regions515 AcrossReveal answer → Limited by shortfall, is someone able to change supply?615 AcrossReveal answer → American comedian who wrote the screenplay of the 1992 film Peter's Friends, in which she also acted, with her husband Martin Bergman1016 AcrossReveal answer → 1995 film starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey1617 AcrossReveal answer → Part of song currently going around817 AcrossReveal answer → Punishment stick418 AcrossReveal answer → Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine618 AcrossReveal answer → Neighbourhood819 AcrossReveal answer → Fix sticker on chic patient undergoing treatment1319 AcrossReveal answer → City and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio Grande1119 AcrossReveal answer → Consume321 AcrossReveal answer → Variety of peach tree whose fruit has a smooth skin921 AcrossReveal answer → Blood vessel422 AcrossReveal answer → Find there's no head on English coin, shocking822 AcrossReveal answer → Jolly dictator beheaded in self-inflicted blunder623 AcrossReveal answer → Live theatre something you're partial to?424 AcrossReveal answer → Sam ___, England football manager for 67 days in 2016924 AcrossReveal answer → Unruly youth unhappy given vase to hold refused1025 AcrossReveal answer → English actress who played Annie Palmer in EastEnders from 1997 until 19991226 AcrossReveal answer → Stage surname of the American actor born Bernard Schwartz in 1925629 AcrossReveal answer → North American plant also called a prairie turnip931 AcrossReveal answer → A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juice632 AcrossReveal answer → 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-finals1133 AcrossReveal answer → A variety of Curaçao liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet oranges934 AcrossReveal answer → Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport who has been MP for Wigan since 2010937 AcrossReveal answer → A loose-woven gauzelike cotton fabric used as a material for making shirts and blouses in the 1960s and 1970s1138 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly a golf club, corresponding to the modern 5 or 6 iron640 AcrossReveal answer → Italian scholar whose political treatise Defensor pacis is seen as the most revolutionary in the late Middle Ages1642 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh opera singer best known for his role as Gio Compario in insurance adverts1044 AcrossReveal answer → An assembly of four or six wheels forming a pivoted support at either end of a railway coach545 AcrossReveal answer → The predatory canine mammal, Canis latrans, also called a prairie wolf646 AcrossReveal answer → Location of England's largest container port1047 AcrossReveal answer → Comedian who married Jennifer Saunders in 19851248 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hospital-based sitcom that starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli and Richard Wilson141 DownReveal answer → Travelling fair81 DownReveal answer → I'm done talking balls42 DownReveal answer → Unrefined32 DownReveal answer → American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence102 DownReveal answer → Sackcloth smeared in ashes73 DownReveal answer → Chamber of the heart93 DownReveal answer → 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 Nagini93 DownReveal answer → 2004 album by Green Day following the life of a character called Jesus of Suburbia134 DownReveal answer → Cab44 DownReveal answer → Bird regularly sat near strange stinky flower94 DownReveal answer → One arranging actor's credit in lead for Gladiator?155 DownReveal answer → Farm building45 DownReveal answer → Inflammation of the ear65 DownReveal answer → Insertion of long key?56 DownReveal answer → Light gas66 DownReveal answer → Home improvement and garden centre retailer founded by Sainsbury's and Belgian retailer GB-Inno-BM in 198186 DownReveal answer → Trick to keep lips red77 DownReveal answer → In ancient Rome, an officer elected by the plebs to protect their interests78 DownReveal answer → Bars over entrance left copper climbing window ledge108 DownReveal answer → Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead Souls59 DownReveal answer → Capable910 DownReveal answer → The eighth sign of the zodiac710 DownReveal answer → News report811 DownReveal answer → The largest city in Tanzania1112 DownReveal answer → French lady worried air is cracking pasta1012 DownReveal answer → Obstacle613 DownReveal answer → Name of the tattooed lady, subject of a Groucho Marx signature song513 DownReveal answer → Police force enjoyed taking Ecstasy, as change from heroin914 DownReveal answer → Like that duck, prepare to lay eggs without delay716 DownReveal answer → On a single occasion416 DownReveal answer → Destiny417 DownReveal answer → Randy Conservative got out of trousers718 DownReveal answer → Italian trains turned up, going nowhere520 DownReveal answer → Falsehood320 DownReveal answer → Sir Alan ___, British playwright and director associated with the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough920 DownReveal answer → Son landed upside down in fall on slopes?421 DownReveal answer → Leslie ___, Singapore-born British novelist who created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint922 DownReveal answer → 1971 single and album by John Lennon723 DownReveal answer → The twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology725 DownReveal answer → The point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer526 DownReveal answer → A medical condition characterised by dizziness, abdominal cramp and prostration1427 DownReveal answer → Character in Star Trek: The Next Generation played by Wil Wheaton1328 DownReveal answer → American actress who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Random Harvest1130 DownReveal answer → The important commercial food fish Gadus macrocephalus1035 DownReveal answer → Body of water between Siberia and Alaska936 DownReveal answer → Stage name of Eastbourne-born singer Graham Pulleyblank, best known for his 1968 single Little Arrows837 DownReveal answer → The capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260 and the seat of the country's oldest university738 DownReveal answer → A caliph of the dynasty ruling from 661 to 750 AD from its capital at Damascus739 DownReveal answer → The capital of Vietnam541 DownReveal answer → James ___, Scottish actor whose films include The Last King of Scotland and Atonement642 DownReveal answer → Common name for the drug amphetamine543 DownReveal answer →

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