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The Independent Crossword July 9 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 58 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 58 clues from the The Independent Crossword for July 9 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Enormous donation hard for English actor91 AcrossReveal answer → Close by41 AcrossReveal answer → Be in debt33 AcrossReveal answer → Become very excited about eating a rice dish56 AcrossReveal answer → Wading bird58 AcrossReveal answer → Accomplish79 AcrossReveal answer → Towards the end, priest turned over a new leaf?59 AcrossReveal answer → Rebuild tiny crate? Sure thing910 AcrossReveal answer → Eternal710 AcrossReveal answer → Tesla worker assuming continent is part of Australia811 AcrossReveal answer → Abrasion511 AcrossReveal answer → Part of plant found in repellent creme caramel612 AcrossReveal answer → Vile thing1112 AcrossReveal answer → Bishop rejected Bill's complaint414 AcrossReveal answer → City girl in the mountains briefly exhausted racing across river1015 AcrossReveal answer → Male duck517 AcrossReveal answer → Answer about angry husband ignored again and again1018 AcrossReveal answer → Distinguished719 AcrossReveal answer → Nasty smell near vessel419 AcrossReveal answer → Burdensome721 AcrossReveal answer → Post Office blocking argument warning of crime?621 AcrossReveal answer → Equine animal522 AcrossReveal answer → Firmament323 AcrossReveal answer → Spooner's solid fuel projection is possible energy saver823 AcrossReveal answer → Retained424 AcrossReveal answer → In Scotland, greet revolutionary about to abandon notorious lover, and dance926 AcrossReveal answer → Tolerate Baron punching assistant527 AcrossReveal answer → English Channel ebbs — get out of the way528 AcrossReveal answer → Decorated salesman's spiel reflected study929 AcrossReveal answer →

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Leave house quietly to get sex51 DownReveal answer → Sweet plant fluid61 DownReveal answer → Persuaded old lecturer to cut notice period, to begin with, providing pass out92 DownReveal answer → Saying52 DownReveal answer → Flautist forever ignoring son after golf63 DownReveal answer → Herb73 DownReveal answer → Great Greek agreed to be inspired by God104 DownReveal answer → Small hole64 DownReveal answer → Right-wing Republican entertained by dwarf45 DownReveal answer → Restore to favour65 DownReveal answer → Mountain-climbing lead is willing to forgive86 DownReveal answer → Part of a cooked fowl116 DownReveal answer → Bachelor to leave remainder for Pierce57 DownReveal answer → Violent person47 DownReveal answer → Lefty Whig spreads division98 DownReveal answer → Courage713 DownReveal answer → Grown-up arranged time to seize drug contaminant1013 DownReveal answer → Dart around to stop authority making rest area for frequent flyers?914 DownReveal answer → Irritable614 DownReveal answer → Repugnant615 DownReveal answer → Development of rising affection, leading to marriage? Time for first bairn, at last916 DownReveal answer → Beat616 DownReveal answer → Landing zone's small step (each flap moves)817 DownReveal answer → Public school418 DownReveal answer → Gas, in French and Chinese and English620 DownReveal answer → Canal boat520 DownReveal answer → Staple food in bygone America522 DownReveal answer → Sample advertisement showing petition524 DownReveal answer → Ring Christopher Robin's friend up425 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, July 9, 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.