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The Independent Crossword July 5 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword July 5 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 111 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#
Juliet with friend in café cut revolutionary king cakeFLAPJACK8Across1 Brief letterNOTE4Across1 DebrisRUBBLE6Across3 Where one could meet a certain Nick CaveGROTTO6Across5 Rugby forwardPROP4Across7 ContiguousADJACENT8Across8 Singer with passion and musical sensitivityWHEATEAR8Across9 Travel documentBOARDINGPASS12Across9 Harry Maguire leaving United? That's unreal!MIRAGE6Across10 Stage name of the Jamaican reggae musician and deejay born John Taylor in 1963, best known for his work with PliersCHAKADEMUS10Across10 CelebritiesSTARS5Across10 Arthur ___, German pessimist philosopher whose chief work is The World as Will and IdeaSCHOPENHAUER12Across11 Shoes without heelsFLATS5Across12 End period primarily tallying interrupted minutes during gamesSTOPPAGETIME12Across12 Motorway areaHARDSHOULDER12Across14 Drama zealots enthralling floorAMAZE5Across15 County whose administrative centre is NorwichNORFOLK7Across15 The harmless crystalline deposits that separate from wines during fermentation and agingTARTRATES9Across16 By and large supported by state, grow oldONAVERAGE9Across16 Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BCLYDIA5Across17 Person who fleesFUGITIVE8Across17 Regularly ladies film new thread about plantARTEMISIA9Across18 Money (Slang)DOSH4Across18 A car with an engine that has been radically modified to produce increased powerHOTROD6Across18 Billy Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 singleJUSTTHEWAYYOUARE16Across19 Dark line dividing kitchen cupboard?UNLIT5Across19 VenerateREVERE6Across19 Blood vesselVEIN4Across20 Impossible to get freely about in Lebanon when leglessUNOBTAINABLE12Across20 The official standard of fineness of British coinsSTERLING8Across22 Gathers fine rugby playersFLOCKS6Across24 City that was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868KYOTO5Across24 She manipulates what goes on at ravesMASSEUSE8Across25 Who's now ultimately shunned arrangement?NOSHOW6Across26 The capital of HungaryBUDAPEST8Across26 Flips over heads, accepting unknown is making a comebackCAPSIZES8Across27 A Muslim judge, ruler or administratorHAKIM5Across30 1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole PorterYOULLNEVERGETRICH17Across31 Noble warriors of Japan who followed a code of rules called bushidoSAMURAI7Across33 The poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, used to make the drink that killed SocratesHEMLOCK7Across35 The period of human history that began in the Middle East about 1100 BCIRONAGE7Across36 1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider HaggardKINGSOLOMONSMINES17Across37 An ancient city on the north coast of Africa northwest of CarthageUTICA5Across38 District of the London Borough of Islington that was home to the largest women's prison in Europe until 2016HOLLOWAY8Across40 The main vessel in the arterial networkAORTA5Across41 E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and DelibesHOFFMANN8Across42 1937 musical film starring Alice Faye that was remade in 1943 as Cowboy in ManhattanYOUREASWEETHEART16Across46 A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials, a trade to which H G Wells was apprenticed, inspiring KippsDRAPER6Across49 Colourless volatile highly-flammable liquid made by the reaction of sulphuric acid with ethanolETHER5Across52 English city on the River SoarLEICESTER9Across53 A former name for JakartaBATAVIA7Across54 The spherical area around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escapeEVENTHORIZON12Across55 English actress best known for the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were HereEMILYLLOYD10Across56

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ApprehensiveNERVOUS7Down1 A shrub or herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean region depicted on the capital of a Corinthian columnACANTHUS8Down1 Buff surgeon finally after fellow that's cuteFAWN4Down1 A small butterfly of the genus CallophrysHAIRSTREAK10Down2 Long-snouted mammalTAPIR5Down2 Peak by lifting acceleration, power and energyAPEX4Down2 A dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of ItalyBAROLO6Down3 Novel setter taken on by another that may spout hot airJETSTREAM9Down3 ManipulateREJIG5Down3 A small insectivorous lizardGECKO5Down4 First-class politician is entertaining about supporting Switzerland in the Euros?CHAMPIONSHIP12Down4 Latin dance styleBACHATA7Down4 A period of five yearsLUSTRUM7Down5 Respiratory organsLUNGS5Down5 Turbulent part of a riverRAPIDS6Down6 In the DC Comics series, the alter ego of Aubrey Sparks and an antagonist of SupermanSCORCH6Down6 Put up freak in shed every so oftenRAISE5Down6 Sadly smoke will rise in squareTRAGICALLY10Down7 The supreme god of the ancient GreeksZEUS4Down7 Busts a gut introducing king to various English votersOVEREXERTS10Down8 The first Sunday in LentQUADRAGESIMA12Down8 A large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical meansARBALEST8Down9 Flight providerAIRLINE7Down11 American waffle brought up three times a dayYADAYADAYADA12Down11 The capital of CanadaOTTAWA6Down12 DupedFOOLED6Down12 British celebrity magazine published in the United Kingdom since 1988, sister magazine to the Spanish weekly ¡Hola!HELLO5Down13 At first Geoffrey and Bungle in Rainbow bar Bob's wretched childRAGAMUFFIN10Down13 Cowboy hatSTETSON7Down13 Song by Mark Barkan that gave Manfred Mann a UK number one in May 1966PRETTYFLAMINGO14Down14 AccommodateHOUSE5Down14 Where to enjoy fine dining on the London Eye? Snails, possiblyGASTROPODS10Down14 Take hold ofSEIZE5Down15 Beaver's denLODGE5Down16 Squares is a sequel outEQUALISES9Down17 1972 British film starring Simon Ward in the title roleYOUNGWINSTON12Down20 American singer associated with the songs Can't Take My Eyes Off You and Music to Watch Girls ByANDYWILLIAMS12Down21 One can cycle from this city to anotherTOKYO5Down21 Leave unfinished pizza essentially to grillQUIZ4Down22 A red wine grape and a popular Italian wine made principally from itLAMBRUSCO9Down23 What tethers first two of three exhausted sparrowhawks?JESS4Down23 1991 Alan Parker film adaptation of a novel by Roddy DoyleTHECOMMITMENTS14Down25 Artificial sports surface invented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrassASTROTURF9Down27 Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2DUCHAMP7Down28 British mass circulation magazine that incorporated Titbits in 1984 before itself closing in 1989WEEKEND7Down29 Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier SchweikHASEK5Down30 A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South AsiaHYENA5Down32 The unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethoughtMANSLAUGHTER12Down34 Nobel prize-winning Russian physiologist best known for his classical conditioning experiments with dogsIVANPAVLOV10Down39 Comic play written by Noël Coward, set in a house at Cookham, BerkshireHAYFEVER8Down40 Former province of France whose chief town is RouenNORMANDY8Down43 The third sign of the zodiacGEMINI6Down44 Ancient Greek war-galley with three banks of rowersTRIREME7Down45 Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumageEGRET5Down47 1923 novella by D H Lawrence featuring the characters Nellie March and Jill BanfordTHEFOX6Down48 Suze ___, American artist and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan seen walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin' Bob DylanROTOLO6Down50 Another name for the white poplarABELE5Down51 Republic in SE Asia first united as the kingdom of Lan Xang ("million elephants") in 1353LAOS4Down53

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, July 5, 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.