The Independent Crossword June 21 2025 Answers

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Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 21 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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Person owing money61 AcrossReveal answer → Top of the heap? Reckon reported wine collection is about second101 AcrossReveal answer → Country65 AcrossReveal answer → Bar not opening? Always46 AcrossReveal answer → Peruse48 AcrossReveal answer → Laid low89 AcrossReveal answer → Commit urban offence: spit on recreation ground109 AcrossReveal answer → Scallions1210 AcrossReveal answer → Dramatic monologue written as a traditional rhyming poem by George R Sims in 18792610 AcrossReveal answer → Standard works, excluding chapter from unknown author410 AcrossReveal answer → Take on511 AcrossReveal answer → The ___ period was the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods1011 AcrossReveal answer → Tolerate English entering conflict412 AcrossReveal answer → Denatured alcohol, in short513 AcrossReveal answer → See 102613 AcrossReveal answer → Generosity and passion are absent in girl713 AcrossReveal answer → 1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that was a sequel to Kidnapped814 AcrossReveal answer → Three-masted ship in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition915 AcrossReveal answer → Fair supply reduced by board916 AcrossReveal answer → Collection of short pieces by Charles Dickens accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank, published in 18361316 AcrossReveal answer → Fast food item1217 AcrossReveal answer → Original name for a rugged cotton twill textile used mainly for jeans1218 AcrossReveal answer → English author starts to grant old stories some esteem518 AcrossReveal answer → Exhausted in rows, losing a source of enthusiasm519 AcrossReveal answer → Predict820 AcrossReveal answer → Reddish dye obtained from the powdered leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis521 AcrossReveal answer → Enticing possibly to follow area such as certain viral treatments?921 AcrossReveal answer → Gambling counter421 AcrossReveal answer → Area of London bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Leicester Square to the south and Charing Cross Road to the east422 AcrossReveal answer → Clergyman622 AcrossReveal answer → Select623 AcrossReveal answer → 1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter1723 AcrossReveal answer → Backed not interrupting fat old Germans723 AcrossReveal answer → Opening temperature needing attention424 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Accra524 AcrossReveal answer → See 361025 AcrossReveal answer → Old dears discontented with betting shop offerings427 AcrossReveal answer → Song from Bob Dylan's 1975 album Desire about a mobster who was killed on his birthday427 AcrossReveal answer → Stand to leave part of sports ground quietly - it’s not upright1028 AcrossReveal answer → Actress whose films include Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill1028 AcrossReveal answer → Stops compensation with a million sent off429 AcrossReveal answer → Plant of the genus Aster with small autumn-blooming flowers1529 AcrossReveal answer → Observer recalled accommodating fools with second and further estimates1030 AcrossReveal answer → See 231733 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of mass equal to 64.79891 milligrams535 AcrossReveal answer → English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 19931036 AcrossReveal answer → See 291537 AcrossReveal answer → Modernist novel by Wyndham Lewis first serialised in The Egoist from April 1916 to November 1917438 AcrossReveal answer → William T ___, character in Star Trek: The Next Generation played by Jonathan Frakes540 AcrossReveal answer → Song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand1243 AcrossReveal answer → June 24, the feast of St John the Baptist1344 AcrossReveal answer → Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter whose albums include We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things945 AcrossReveal answer → Gardener and broadcaster whose books include Trowel & Error1450 AcrossReveal answer → American golfer who won the 1981 Open at Royal St George's1051 AcrossReveal answer → Part of the skull made up of four sections: the squama, petrous, tympanic and mastoid1252 AcrossReveal answer →

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Expression of enthusiasm about Ford's latest chassis, perhaps41 DownReveal answer → Leo Sayer hit that reached number 1 in the UK and US in 1977121 DownReveal answer → The second member of the Trimurti in Hinduism62 DownReveal answer → Let off72 DownReveal answer → Endless desire swamping love elevated spirit42 DownReveal answer → Civil parish in Norfolk whose Holy Trinity Church contains the only funerary effigy of its kind outside Westminster Abbey123 DownReveal answer → Conspicuous exotic, planted in stone73 DownReveal answer → Male singer53 DownReveal answer → London nightclub opposite Smithfield meat market that was number 1 on DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs" list in 2007 and 200864 DownReveal answer → Some undesirable person?54 DownReveal answer → Feel bitter at64 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Boise55 DownReveal answer → Preparation for course: note start of lessons separately introduced in Term One after review95 DownReveal answer → Not wide65 DownReveal answer → Given to touching76 DownReveal answer → Novel by Joe Keenan that won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in October 2007116 DownReveal answer → Body of water57 DownReveal answer → Northampton-born rugby player who made his England debut against Ireland in the inaugural Six Nations Championship87 DownReveal answer → Vampire hunter leading group over shifting shingle107 DownReveal answer → 1999 British film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell108 DownReveal answer → Unsettled near uproar about Conservative revival108 DownReveal answer → A dark reddish-brown pigment109 DownReveal answer → The swiftest mammal711 DownReveal answer → Origin of daily newspaper is a dull affair411 DownReveal answer → Maxim712 DownReveal answer → Another name for the Furies in classical mythology712 DownReveal answer → Bold actions714 DownReveal answer → Butterfly possibly following butterfly spurning latest effect of the sun?1014 DownReveal answer → Shooting star615 DownReveal answer → Almost certain regarding approximate quantities under blockade?1015 DownReveal answer → Not private616 DownReveal answer → Money European country raised for restaurant917 DownReveal answer → The third album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1975817 DownReveal answer → Commotion518 DownReveal answer → Lizard519 DownReveal answer → A rich stew that originated in Hungary719 DownReveal answer → Decline surgery overseen by doctor?420 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Abuja720 DownReveal answer → Greek technology company in struggle722 DownReveal answer → Hard to avoid straps in gripping tool524 DownReveal answer → Acute viral disease whose technical name is herpes zoster825 DownReveal answer → Performing group, half taken aback, in stage show …425 DownReveal answer → … pursues note concluding Mikado (G & S)426 DownReveal answer → Shakespeare play subtitled the Moor of Venice726 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Kingston727 DownReveal answer → American rock and roll pioneer whose hits included C'mon Everybody, Somethin' Else and Summertime Blues1230 DownReveal answer → Song recalling the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 17461231 DownReveal answer → Port city in northern Chile, about 700 miles north of Santiago1132 DownReveal answer → Goran ___, the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard1034 DownReveal answer → Football manager who took West Bromwich Albion to the Premier League for the first time in 20021035 DownReveal answer → Bertrand ___, British philosopher awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950739 DownReveal answer → Arthur ___, Hungarian-born writer whose works include the novel Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine841 DownReveal answer → Surname of the French New Wave film director whose works include Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima mon amour742 DownReveal answer → 1921 silent John Ford Western starring Hoot Gibson646 DownReveal answer → Fabrice ___, Congolese-born former footballer who suffered a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup match between Tottenham Hotspur Bolton and Bolton Wanderers647 DownReveal answer → An epidermal pore that controls the passage of gases into and out of a plant548 DownReveal answer →

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