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The Independent Crossword June 17 2025 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 59 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 59 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 17 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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Question framed by a leading lady?121 AcrossReveal answer → Privilege61 AcrossReveal answer → Adversary55 AcrossReveal answer → Appear48 AcrossReveal answer → Securing final in tennis, Wade’s opponent climbed rankings48 AcrossReveal answer → Motorcycle sport89 AcrossReveal answer → German people displaying magnanimity59 AcrossReveal answer → Rugby player910 AcrossReveal answer → Retrospective name associated with Ireland410 AcrossReveal answer → Pretty - possessed of sex appeal in truth611 AcrossReveal answer → Virtue of reduced speed in built-up area813 AcrossReveal answer → Wall painting613 AcrossReveal answer → Dolly maybe getting 50% bosom reduction a day earlier314 AcrossReveal answer → Region614 AcrossReveal answer → Banks of huge river in Russia's state capital615 AcrossReveal answer → Boundless sand outside of Nigeria in semi-wild, hot biome816 AcrossReveal answer → Type of warship916 AcrossReveal answer → Barrier protecting both sides around old Renaissance city819 AcrossReveal answer → Not to mention819 AcrossReveal answer → Melt421 AcrossReveal answer → Sum522 AcrossReveal answer → Righteous anger after nation’s exported zero dyestuff622 AcrossReveal answer → Emphasis623 AcrossReveal answer → Bread and butter free from New York324 AcrossReveal answer → Job’s quality created by 1 in 10 falling into step825 AcrossReveal answer → Red-headed queen on horse keeping fashionable628 AcrossReveal answer → Grow weary of dear Juliet, broken without Romeo429 AcrossReveal answer → Take back Wicked Oscar for one with green skin?530 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol for elite rugby nations' leaders?432 AcrossReveal answer → Tackle temporarily emptied pool533 AcrossReveal answer → Dark Lord gets very loud replacement for Posh Spice734 AcrossReveal answer →

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Why old men all scratch their bottoms around Spain? It’s unrefined91 DownReveal answer → Portent42 DownReveal answer → Fish starter's off the menu for Mr & Mrs72 DownReveal answer → Gradual assimilation73 DownReveal answer → Plastic bags covering up a bit of brewer’s droop33 DownReveal answer → Storage tank94 DownReveal answer → Rising star accepts Lethal Weapon but not Fifty Shades74 DownReveal answer → Cereal grain35 DownReveal answer → Arsenal finishing second and losing league here?55 DownReveal answer → Thus Spake Zarathustra gave standards about it76 DownReveal answer → Alcoholic drink56 DownReveal answer → Part of Benedictine order57 DownReveal answer → Jumping game87 DownReveal answer → Accompaniment to fish and chips911 DownReveal answer → Desperately hope for New Age to come earlier512 DownReveal answer → Inclination812 DownReveal answer → Museum head715 DownReveal answer → Clever517 DownReveal answer → Very good to adopt feminine principle in competition517 DownReveal answer → Short boxing blows418 DownReveal answer → Piece of engineering close to Santa Fe bridging rocky glen918 DownReveal answer → Habit of organist’s regularly entertaining pieces720 DownReveal answer → Nocturnal bird320 DownReveal answer → Sort of nemeses endlessly besieging one?721 DownReveal answer → Backed up bog blocks means of access down the drain723 DownReveal answer → It’s sad for Romeo, a knave Juliet’s left526 DownReveal answer → "How's your father?" is in noisy exchanges with "All right!"527 DownReveal answer → Overnight cobbler of the German football team331 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Tuesday, June 17, 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.