The Independent Crossword July 5 2025 Answers

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Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 5 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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Juliet with friend in café cut revolutionary king cake81 AcrossReveal answer → Brief letter41 AcrossReveal answer → Debris63 AcrossReveal answer → Where one could meet a certain Nick Cave65 AcrossReveal answer → Rugby forward47 AcrossReveal answer → Contiguous88 AcrossReveal answer → Singer with passion and musical sensitivity89 AcrossReveal answer → Travel document129 AcrossReveal answer → Harry Maguire leaving United? That's unreal!610 AcrossReveal answer → Stage name of the Jamaican reggae musician and deejay born John Taylor in 1963, best known for his work with Pliers1010 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrities510 AcrossReveal answer → Arthur ___, German pessimist philosopher whose chief work is The World as Will and Idea1211 AcrossReveal answer → Shoes without heels512 AcrossReveal answer → End period primarily tallying interrupted minutes during games1212 AcrossReveal answer → Motorway area1214 AcrossReveal answer → Drama zealots enthralling floor515 AcrossReveal answer → County whose administrative centre is Norwich715 AcrossReveal answer → The harmless crystalline deposits that separate from wines during fermentation and aging916 AcrossReveal answer → By and large supported by state, grow old916 AcrossReveal answer → 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 BC517 AcrossReveal answer → Person who flees817 AcrossReveal answer → Regularly ladies film new thread about plant918 AcrossReveal answer → Money (Slang)418 AcrossReveal answer → A car with an engine that has been radically modified to produce increased power618 AcrossReveal answer → Billy Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single1619 AcrossReveal answer → Dark line dividing kitchen cupboard?519 AcrossReveal answer → Venerate619 AcrossReveal answer → Blood vessel420 AcrossReveal answer → Impossible to get freely about in Lebanon when legless1220 AcrossReveal answer → The official standard of fineness of British coins822 AcrossReveal answer → Gathers fine rugby players624 AcrossReveal answer → City that was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868524 AcrossReveal answer → She manipulates what goes on at raves825 AcrossReveal answer → Who's now ultimately shunned arrangement?626 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Hungary826 AcrossReveal answer → Flips over heads, accepting unknown is making a comeback827 AcrossReveal answer → A Muslim judge, ruler or administrator530 AcrossReveal answer → 1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter1731 AcrossReveal answer → Noble warriors of Japan who followed a code of rules called bushido733 AcrossReveal answer → The poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, used to make the drink that killed Socrates735 AcrossReveal answer → The period of human history that began in the Middle East about 1100 BC736 AcrossReveal answer → 1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard1737 AcrossReveal answer → An ancient city on the north coast of Africa northwest of Carthage538 AcrossReveal answer → District of the London Borough of Islington that was home to the largest women's prison in Europe until 2016840 AcrossReveal answer → The main vessel in the arterial network541 AcrossReveal answer → E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Delibes842 AcrossReveal answer → 1937 musical film starring Alice Faye that was remade in 1943 as Cowboy in Manhattan1646 AcrossReveal answer → A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials, a trade to which H G Wells was apprenticed, inspiring Kipps649 AcrossReveal answer → Colourless volatile highly-flammable liquid made by the reaction of sulphuric acid with ethanol552 AcrossReveal answer → English city on the River Soar953 AcrossReveal answer → A former name for Jakarta754 AcrossReveal answer → The spherical area around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape1255 AcrossReveal answer → English actress best known for the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were Here1056 AcrossReveal answer →

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Apprehensive71 DownReveal answer → A shrub or herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean region depicted on the capital of a Corinthian column81 DownReveal answer → Buff surgeon finally after fellow that's cute41 DownReveal answer → A small butterfly of the genus Callophrys102 DownReveal answer → Long-snouted mammal52 DownReveal answer → Peak by lifting acceleration, power and energy42 DownReveal answer → A dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy63 DownReveal answer → Novel setter taken on by another that may spout hot air93 DownReveal answer → Manipulate53 DownReveal answer → A small insectivorous lizard54 DownReveal answer → First-class politician is entertaining about supporting Switzerland in the Euros?124 DownReveal answer → Latin dance style74 DownReveal answer → A period of five years75 DownReveal answer → Respiratory organs55 DownReveal answer → Turbulent part of a river66 DownReveal answer → In the DC Comics series, the alter ego of Aubrey Sparks and an antagonist of Superman66 DownReveal answer → Put up freak in shed every so often56 DownReveal answer → Sadly smoke will rise in square107 DownReveal answer → The supreme god of the ancient Greeks47 DownReveal answer → Busts a gut introducing king to various English voters108 DownReveal answer → The first Sunday in Lent128 DownReveal answer → A large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means89 DownReveal answer → Flight provider711 DownReveal answer → American waffle brought up three times a day1211 DownReveal answer → The capital of Canada612 DownReveal answer → Duped612 DownReveal answer → British celebrity magazine published in the United Kingdom since 1988, sister magazine to the Spanish weekly ¡Hola!513 DownReveal answer → At first Geoffrey and Bungle in Rainbow bar Bob's wretched child1013 DownReveal answer → Cowboy hat713 DownReveal answer → Song by Mark Barkan that gave Manfred Mann a UK number one in May 19661414 DownReveal answer → Accommodate514 DownReveal answer → Where to enjoy fine dining on the London Eye? Snails, possibly1014 DownReveal answer → Take hold of515 DownReveal answer → Beaver's den516 DownReveal answer → Squares is a sequel out917 DownReveal answer → 1972 British film starring Simon Ward in the title role1220 DownReveal answer → American singer associated with the songs Can't Take My Eyes Off You and Music to Watch Girls By1221 DownReveal answer → One can cycle from this city to another521 DownReveal answer → Leave unfinished pizza essentially to grill422 DownReveal answer → A red wine grape and a popular Italian wine made principally from it923 DownReveal answer → What tethers first two of three exhausted sparrowhawks?423 DownReveal answer → 1991 Alan Parker film adaptation of a novel by Roddy Doyle1425 DownReveal answer → Artificial sports surface invented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrass927 DownReveal answer → Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2728 DownReveal answer → British mass circulation magazine that incorporated Titbits in 1984 before itself closing in 1989729 DownReveal answer → Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik530 DownReveal answer → A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia532 DownReveal answer → The unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought1234 DownReveal answer → Nobel prize-winning Russian physiologist best known for his classical conditioning experiments with dogs1039 DownReveal answer → Comic play written by Noël Coward, set in a house at Cookham, Berkshire840 DownReveal answer → Former province of France whose chief town is Rouen843 DownReveal answer → The third sign of the zodiac644 DownReveal answer → Ancient Greek war-galley with three banks of rowers745 DownReveal answer → Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage547 DownReveal answer → 1923 novella by D H Lawrence featuring the characters Nellie March and Jill Banford648 DownReveal answer → Suze ___, American artist and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan seen walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan650 DownReveal answer → Another name for the white poplar551 DownReveal answer → Republic in SE Asia first united as the kingdom of Lan Xang ("million elephants") in 1353453 DownReveal answer →

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