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The Independent Crossword July 3 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 3 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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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Sports car's ignition key - taking just seconds to make contact41 AcrossReveal answer → 24-hour period31 AcrossReveal answer → Flour and water mixture53 AcrossReveal answer → Bad effect that follows dessert wine?103 AcrossReveal answer → Run-of-the-mill78 AcrossReveal answer → Poisonous fluid59 AcrossReveal answer → Group screening finale from Oliver Twist510 AcrossReveal answer → Indistinct510 AcrossReveal answer → Taken advantage of711 AcrossReveal answer → Rich businessmen left in fancy cigar shop after power cut911 AcrossReveal answer → Close some open doors312 AcrossReveal answer → Suggests good judgement is overturned613 AcrossReveal answer → Prudish1113 AcrossReveal answer → Book – last of all you order on Kindle414 AcrossReveal answer → Futility of keeping poor proles in suspense somehow shown at the outset1516 AcrossReveal answer → Large ape716 AcrossReveal answer → Serving spoon518 AcrossReveal answer → Square character keeping something barbershop needs1518 AcrossReveal answer → Confess519 AcrossReveal answer → Pastille721 AcrossReveal answer → Team expressed exasperation on the radio421 AcrossReveal answer → Gold standard protects one foreign worker622 AcrossReveal answer → Saunter522 AcrossReveal answer → Remove clothes for wild time323 AcrossReveal answer → Wet dirt323 AcrossReveal answer → Initially almost no papers in agreement on quality of Starmer's speech925 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps pen and ink missing in display526 AcrossReveal answer → Sales rep met sidekick about suppressing ailments1027 AcrossReveal answer → Don Warrington's biggest character gets attention428 AcrossReveal answer →

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Means to apply make-up we drop off before drag show's opening111 DownReveal answer → Obtain61 DownReveal answer → Wide smile for starters - dentist examines rotten molar72 DownReveal answer → Youth92 DownReveal answer → Quilt53 DownReveal answer → Clue to give them for starting with nothing154 DownReveal answer → Vase34 DownReveal answer → Actress in theory, lit a blaze in resort155 DownReveal answer → Person55 DownReveal answer → 4 friends making buffet46 DownReveal answer → Movie theatre66 DownReveal answer → Check 1 Across, say contains definition originally – firm up opening77 DownReveal answer → Forever117 DownReveal answer → Greek island cocking a snook regularly38 DownReveal answer → Cohort of 23 mature women ignored?89 DownReveal answer → Fictitious name912 DownReveal answer → Burning614 DownReveal answer → Busybody attorney perks up after case of theft dropped1115 DownReveal answer → Rely615 DownReveal answer → Tropical fruit516 DownReveal answer → Dawn making new props occasionally – wow817 DownReveal answer → Milky coffee517 DownReveal answer → Head doctor's cutting under United strip719 DownReveal answer → Cow left hay when ignored oddly720 DownReveal answer → Unruly crowd320 DownReveal answer → 19 drank slime424 DownReveal answer → Help abridging opera?325 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, July 3, 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.