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The Independent Crossword June 5 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 58 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 58 clues from the The Independent Crossword for June 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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Siamese possibly taking after northern European71 AcrossReveal answer → Central part41 AcrossReveal answer → Monarch43 AcrossReveal answer → Scared following reprimand75 AcrossReveal answer → Citrus fruit57 AcrossReveal answer → Type of school78 AcrossReveal answer → Higher power backing up former leader59 AcrossReveal answer → Legless type calls briefly, having lost at strip poker?910 AcrossReveal answer → Egyptian ruler710 AcrossReveal answer → Around Réunion, perhaps, Vogue wasn't successful611 AcrossReveal answer → Deduce511 AcrossReveal answer → Conflict shown by Islamism at chapel812 AcrossReveal answer → Fragrant shrub1112 AcrossReveal answer → Young troops use coasts to swim914 AcrossReveal answer → Network's route curtailed315 AcrossReveal answer → Steel tower517 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of hardness misrepresented at first318 AcrossReveal answer → Push forward719 AcrossReveal answer → Laziness of grant invested in pub these days920 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican spirit721 AcrossReveal answer → Viper522 AcrossReveal answer → Surrender423 AcrossReveal answer → Helpless charger accepting African currency for European823 AcrossReveal answer → Tinker Tailor Soldier - and sure, ultimately apt to include - Spy624 AcrossReveal answer → Depend424 AcrossReveal answer → People welcome to accept love god, not the first one927 AcrossReveal answer → Vocalists recalled lush Hollywood area528 AcrossReveal answer → Ambush of pressure avoided by what comes before it?729 AcrossReveal answer → Did bug like pine?730 AcrossReveal answer →

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Editor leaving very happy sound on tracks51 DownReveal answer → Islamic ruler61 DownReveal answer → Cut absurd deposit72 DownReveal answer → Cuban dance52 DownReveal answer → Generosity of SSE?83 DownReveal answer → Military fabric colour53 DownReveal answer → Average Agatha Christie novel44 DownReveal answer → Necessary74 DownReveal answer → Amateur works off tin can, I suspect105 DownReveal answer → Congenital65 DownReveal answer → Suppose Muppet raised aggressive puppet66 DownReveal answer → Female sailor116 DownReveal answer → Geometric shape in walls of former university cut from concrete77 DownReveal answer → Article for Elle, say, covering hit treatment for old bones?88 DownReveal answer → Unit of length49 DownReveal answer → Slanting713 DownReveal answer → Can we remove record from sluggish churchman?1013 DownReveal answer → Short sleep614 DownReveal answer → Petty squabble415 DownReveal answer → School engaged in unorthodox use of kitchen assistant816 DownReveal answer → Annual616 DownReveal answer → Light turned up in US state817 DownReveal answer → Artless518 DownReveal answer → More dark rum with a twist and hint of elderflower in cocktail719 DownReveal answer → Excessive520 DownReveal answer → Nation mostly supporting Cork and Dublin?721 DownReveal answer → Warm out?622 DownReveal answer → Destroyed and constructed without independence525 DownReveal answer → Notice bad overwhelming good426 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, June 5, 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.