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The Independent Crossword July 28 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 28 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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Validate moves to incarcerate Welsh bore91 AcrossReveal answer → Semite31 AcrossReveal answer → Female deer33 AcrossReveal answer → Open form of government originally adopted from the east46 AcrossReveal answer → Disheartened marksmen receiving daily shots88 AcrossReveal answer → School mark58 AcrossReveal answer → Curdle79 AcrossReveal answer → Periodically orders big guns to stand down69 AcrossReveal answer → Dreadful (Informal)710 AcrossReveal answer → Track fox discovered in wood610 AcrossReveal answer → Hard dark wood511 AcrossReveal answer → Journalist concludes former police constable went mad811 AcrossReveal answer → Easily annoyed1112 AcrossReveal answer → Associated verse about knight with Germany612 AcrossReveal answer → Detective's on edge meeting Henry for food815 AcrossReveal answer → Writer exposed adult male stalking posh swinger816 AcrossReveal answer → Mistake516 AcrossReveal answer → Revealing718 AcrossReveal answer → Show embarrassment when teacher circles question mark619 AcrossReveal answer → Confound720 AcrossReveal answer → Burst of fire521 AcrossReveal answer → Circus performers welcoming suggestion about dirty movie theatres821 AcrossReveal answer → Squat soldier's backside fills sofa622 AcrossReveal answer → Mingle322 AcrossReveal answer → Colour323 AcrossReveal answer → Seabird perched on a pole at rear of ship624 AcrossReveal answer → Sample mince pies, oddly neglecting second one825 AcrossReveal answer → Notice worries pygmies somewhat426 AcrossReveal answer → First Lady regularly on vacation in Switzerland? Absolutely!927 AcrossReveal answer →

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Type of puzzle61 DownReveal answer → Singer vocalising note51 DownReveal answer → Tired52 DownReveal answer → Agent turned up on hard stuff? Dismiss from office!72 DownReveal answer → Thick53 DownReveal answer → Superior, say, taken in by tall tale53 DownReveal answer → Responds to article and promises to delete another74 DownReveal answer → Ugly sight74 DownReveal answer → Unionist pride is cruelly crushed by English dramatist95 DownReveal answer → Allow65 DownReveal answer → Flee from sailors caught on delta76 DownReveal answer → Adapt to a new setting116 DownReveal answer → Drama47 DownReveal answer → Silver and gold-encrusted robe daughter swapped with German invader97 DownReveal answer → Word made from initials713 DownReveal answer → Ladies sit awkwardly in 20s913 DownReveal answer → Sign up614 DownReveal answer → Brief affair ultimately destroyed partnership914 DownReveal answer → Ancient615 DownReveal answer → Sea eagle416 DownReveal answer → Puny rep arduously held up curtains717 DownReveal answer → Take it easy517 DownReveal answer → Spooner's worked out setter is unmissable718 DownReveal answer → Layabout519 DownReveal answer → Perfect instructor stripped most of instrument720 DownReveal answer → Tough revolutionary essentially spewing poppycock522 DownReveal answer → Language test is oral523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, July 28, 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.