The Independent Crossword June 28 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 111 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 111 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 28 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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Fermented pear drink51 AcrossReveal answer → Steps over a wall54 AcrossReveal answer → Hosts leaders of active Russian movement in extreme secrecy66 AcrossReveal answer → Frolic47 AcrossReveal answer → Moderate spring call77 AcrossReveal answer → Superseded88 AcrossReveal answer → Shabby cafe (Informal)119 AcrossReveal answer → Mumbling objection about terminology59 AcrossReveal answer → Diagram of sequences from fellow depressed companion with talent910 AcrossReveal answer → Breakfast food611 AcrossReveal answer → ITV series starring Michael Elphick in the title role411 AcrossReveal answer → A public declaration of policy issued by a political party912 AcrossReveal answer → Too much cycling for little child312 AcrossReveal answer → Prosper613 AcrossReveal answer → Unsuitable pixie needn't go swimming1113 AcrossReveal answer → A flightless marine bird of the order Sphenisciformes of cool southern regions714 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps the first Elizabeth R, for cruciverbalists?714 AcrossReveal answer → Large historical division in the Scottish Highlands that now forms the northern part of Perth and Kinross615 AcrossReveal answer → Subject of script Diaz meant to be read in regular instalments715 AcrossReveal answer → Form of humour1115 AcrossReveal answer → Character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume and pointed hat716 AcrossReveal answer → American actress whose films include Picnic, The Man With the Golden Arm and Vertigo817 AcrossReveal answer → Made unhappy818 AcrossReveal answer → Historic Red Wedding?1118 AcrossReveal answer → The Latin name for the Canticle of Simeon1218 AcrossReveal answer → 2004 Michael Mann film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx1019 AcrossReveal answer → Transaction420 AcrossReveal answer → Greek island in the Aegean that is the largest island of the Northern Sporades621 AcrossReveal answer → Limit EU farming policy321 AcrossReveal answer → Wading bird521 AcrossReveal answer → Radioactive element522 AcrossReveal answer → British inventor of the first successful steam locomotive1623 AcrossReveal answer → Are digits manipulated for parliamentary family?923 AcrossReveal answer → Organic compound's manufactured there524 AcrossReveal answer → Back East Germany in Norwegian725 AcrossReveal answer → Temporary shelter's sign broken by worker626 AcrossReveal answer → Marine invertebrate also called a lamp shell1027 AcrossReveal answer → German term used for historical empires530 AcrossReveal answer → An annelid belonging to the subclass Hirudinea532 AcrossReveal answer → The former name of Thailand433 AcrossReveal answer → 1976 album by The Stills-Young Band whose title track was an elegy for Neil Young's first car1335 AcrossReveal answer → 1986 musical that starred Cliff Richard in its West End run437 AcrossReveal answer → Jonathan ___, American film director best known for The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia538 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Ghana539 AcrossReveal answer → Actor who played Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army1040 AcrossReveal answer → 1960 novel by Kingsley Amis featuring young teacher Jenny Bunn1642 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for oarweed645 AcrossReveal answer → The first person to get ten Academy Award nominations for acting1047 AcrossReveal answer → 1985 novel by Bret Easton Ellis named after a song by Elvis Costello1250 AcrossReveal answer → A white crystalline alcohol used as a sweetener (E420)852 AcrossReveal answer → A daughter of a king of Spain or Portugal754 AcrossReveal answer → A series of French delta-winged fighters and bombers made by the aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation655 AcrossReveal answer → Small four-stringed guitar that originated in Hawaii in the 19th century756 AcrossReveal answer → American actor, born Harvey Lee Yeary, who played Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man and Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy957 AcrossReveal answer → Historic seat of the ancient Irish kings in County Meath458 AcrossReveal answer →

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Indecisive Prince of Hungary with charm that's not universal61 DownReveal answer → North American name for a nightjar101 DownReveal answer → Tine51 DownReveal answer → Issued electronic order to send duke down82 DownReveal answer → The ___, the third 'Dirty Harry' film starring Clint Eastwood, released in 197682 DownReveal answer → Put down by force72 DownReveal answer → The French Teletubby runs in ecstasy after a hare83 DownReveal answer → Italian town that was a major Mediterranean port from the 10th to the 18th century63 DownReveal answer → Standard of comparison93 DownReveal answer → Voting system cool Democrat valued64 DownReveal answer → Subtitle of American composer John Knowles Paine's Symphony No. 2 in A major84 DownReveal answer → Plant fluid34 DownReveal answer → Mad Parisians might take a dip here, it's said65 DownReveal answer → Adult insect55 DownReveal answer → Ancient Egyptian god who was ruler of the underworld and judge of the dead65 DownReveal answer → Perpetual76 DownReveal answer → Rocky hill about 130 km southeast of Rome, site of a 1944 battle in which its monastery was destroyed by Allied bombing126 DownReveal answer → American director whose films include Do the Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues87 DownReveal answer → Genus of saltwater clams commonly known as jingle shells and saddle oysters68 DownReveal answer → periscope.tv exercised potential118 DownReveal answer → In Roman tradition, the queen of the Olympian gods49 DownReveal answer → Accompaniment to a main course910 DownReveal answer → The capital of Turkey610 DownReveal answer → Reference books deal with computer interfaces outside Delaware1110 DownReveal answer → Brown carries one ton - that's a huge figure!511 DownReveal answer → Displeasure712 DownReveal answer → Lancashire seaside town whose Town football club first gained league status in 2012913 DownReveal answer → Files of king snakes514 DownReveal answer → Brandished714 DownReveal answer → Fiddler can finally speak before start of recital816 DownReveal answer → Viper516 DownReveal answer → Reportedly menagerie feature in Channel Islands provides growth for American817 DownReveal answer → Long517 DownReveal answer → Louse egg319 DownReveal answer → Piece from piano reverberates around city619 DownReveal answer → Scottish actor and impressionist who was the first choice to play Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses920 DownReveal answer → Say half of gnomes go without ordinary boozy concoction620 DownReveal answer → Steven ___, US director whose films include Jaws, ET and Jurassic Park922 DownReveal answer → Aperitif lifted Spanish gent and salesman622 DownReveal answer → 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union924 DownReveal answer → Best Actress Oscar-winner for As Good As It Gets925 DownReveal answer → An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland526 DownReveal answer → A rich soft creamy cheese named after a village in Normandy where it originated928 DownReveal answer → Another name for the auricle, the external part of the ear529 DownReveal answer → City in Afghanistan on the Hari Rud River531 DownReveal answer → The letter I in the NATO phonetic alphabet534 DownReveal answer → Market town in Cheshire whose Town football club first gained league status in 19971236 DownReveal answer → Former name for Ethiopia940 DownReveal answer → American cowboy vaudeville performer and film actor known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son"1041 DownReveal answer → The seventh studio album by The Beatles, released in August 1966843 DownReveal answer → British band in which Midge Ure replaced John Foxx as lead singer in 1979844 DownReveal answer → Town in Lower Galilee that was the home of Jesus in his youth846 DownReveal answer → The second book of the Old Testament648 DownReveal answer → An intentionally-applied form of noise routinely used in processing digital audio and digital video data649 DownReveal answer → Irish river that rises in the Wicklow Mountains and flows into Dublin Bay650 DownReveal answer → 1981 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions recorded in Nashville1051 DownReveal answer →

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