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The Independent Crossword June 7 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword June 7 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 112 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ManufacturerMAKER5Across1 Hush money Republican leaves frequent sexual partnerSTEADY6Across1 RepairsMENDS5Across4 Who shot horror film cut nothing, getting one firedHOWITZER8Across5 HugeENORMOUS8Across7 JotIOTA4Across8 Pacific nation announced seventh payment?FIJI4Across9 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of DarknessAPOCALYPSENOW13Across9 InsipidWISHYWASHY10Across9 Unexpected turns of events around penalty area: people fightingKICKBOXERS10Across10 Powerful service, perhaps, as some saints weep aloudCANNONBALL10Across11 CosmeticsMAKEUP6Across12 US state whose capital is Little RockARKANSAS8Across12 Sluggish fish circling lakeIDLE4Across12 Sketch of character given novel by Times editor at firstVIGNETTE8Across13 American group whose hit singles include Car Wash, Wishing on a Star and Love Don't Live Here AnymoreROSEROYCE9Across14 WorldwideGLOBAL6Across14 Dismisses English planes possessing impossibly fast speedEJECTS6Across15 Entertainment producerIMPRESARIO10Across15 Scottish rock band whose hit singles include Don't You (Forget About Me) and Alive and KickingSIMPLEMINDS11Across15 Fantasy world created by C S LewisNARNIA6Across16 Without leaders, walk with difficulty where animal lives and do damageIMPAIR6Across17 A tau cross with a loop on the top, symbolising eternal lifeANKH4Across17 TooALSO4Across18 Colourless gas with a chlorine-like odour, formed by an electric discharge in oxygenOZONE5Across18 Tired footballers chasing game regretted conceding right at the startFATIGUED8Across19 Egyptian actor whose films include Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl and Lawrence of ArabiaOMARSHARIF10Across19 Toffee-nosedSNOBBISH8Across19 Transported in layers of paper for deliveryRAPT4Across21 Region of NW Italy whose chief town is TurinPIEDMONT8Across21 Desert animalCAMEL5Across21 MolluscSNAIL5Across22 1967 BBC adaptation of a series of John Galsworthy novels that starred Eric Porter, Kenneth More and Nyree Dawn PorterTHEFORSYTESAGA14Across23 Joining excursion inside flatUNEXCITING10Across23 Champion disappearing act cloaks queenVANQUISHER10Across25 Country whose capital is LimaPERU4Across26 Popular ghost houses that I find dismayingARGH4Across26 Film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988PELLETHECONQUEROR17Across27 Assembled gravesite memorials, essentially, in church yardCEMETERY8Across27 Comfort jury judge's thrown out following some illuminationLUXURY6Across28 Singer who performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 2012 OlympicsEMELISANDE10Across30 Golfer who won the Open Championship in 1985 and the US Masters in 1988SANDYLYLE9Across32 See 14ROSEROYCE9Across34 Radio programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942DESERTISLANDDISCS17Across37 Russian city at the confluence of the Irtysh and Om riversOMSK4Across40 Title traditionally held by the eldest son of the reigning British monarchDUKEOFCORNWALL14Across42 African country formerly known as the Territory of the Afars and the IssasDJIBOUTI8Across45 American athlete who broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm at the 1991 World Championships in TokyoMIKEPOWELL10Across46 The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the caecumILEUM5Across49 American corporation founded in 1964 that specialises in audio equipmentBOSE4Across50 8th century BC Greek poet who was the earliest author of didactic verseHESIOD6Across52 American actress best known for playing Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the TV series M*A*S*HLORETTASWIT11Across53 The Norse god of thunderTHOR4Across54 Flowering plant also known as sowbreadCYCLAMEN8Across55 1955 film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd, telling the story of Operation Chastise in World War IITHEDAMBUSTERS13Across56

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A thick creamy sauce made from egg yolks, oil and vinegar or lemon juiceMAYONNAISE10Down1 Clothing for malesMENSWEAR8Down1 Bar limits drunk standing proudly alongside localsTRIBALISM9Down2 Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The SeasonsJOSEPHHAYDN11Down2 Cassis and wine drinkKIR3Down2 One Glaswegian on vacation dips into river in French cityAVIGNON7Down3 Italian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twiceFAUSTOCOPPI11Down3 SpaciousROOMY5Down3 Year working under British overseas territoryYUKON5Down4 2003 single by Evanescence that reached number 7 in both the UK and US chartsMYIMMORTAL10Down4 Feral horseMUSTANG7Down4 Person living nearbyNEIGHBOUR9Down5 Unit teacher revisedHECTARE7Down5 British rider who won an individual show jumping silver medal at the 1972 OlympicsANNMOORE8Down5 US state whose capital is TopekaKANSAS6Down6 LocationSITE4Down6 Most faint books, boring without stories, ultimately lostWOBBLIEST9Down6 Robots or synthetic organisms designed to look and act like humansANDROIDS8Down7 Material in book upset right awayTEXTILE7Down7 Italian region whose capital is RomeLAZIO5Down8 Sign on line, or covering one upENROL5Down8 Mikaël ___, French defender who made 249 appearances for Manchester United before joining Arsenal in 2008SILVESTRE9Down10 Health club facilitySTEAMROOM9Down10 Merry-go-roundCAROUSEL8Down11 ___ Ventham, English actress who is the mother of Benedict CumberbatchWANDA5Down11 2004 film starring Clive Owen in the title roleKINGARTHUR10Down13 SunshadePARASOL7Down13 Stone Sour quiet, for a changeTURQUOISE9Down14 Child born with temperature raised by a GermanTWEENAGER9Down16 Spilt beer, cider, etcSLOPS5Down16 Group of countriesBLOC4Down17 Old soldier stimulated after shellingANTIQUE7Down18 Fellow concerned with back of heel in cast once moreFRESHLY7Down19 Long thin scarfBOA3Down20 Entrance ten taking in gold items on counter in French cafe?GATEAUX7Down20 A saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus with gills on the underside of the capAGARIC6Down20 Surprise delivery service dropping off opposite baseAMAZE5Down22 Scottish engine with the number 10 in Rev W Awdry's Railway SeriesDOUGLAS7Down22 Baroness ___, Hungarian-born British novelist best known for The Scarlet PimpernelORCZY5Down24 Coach told to get rid of wingers in chantCAROL5Down24 See 30 AcrossEMELISANDE10Down25 See 2JOSEPHHAYDN11Down28 1970 Western starring John Wayne, the last film directed by Howard HawksRIOLOBO7Down29 A person such as Madame Arcati in Noël Coward's play Blithe SpiritMEDIUM6Down31 County of NW Republic of Ireland, on the AtlanticSLIGO5Down32 Synthetic material made by copolymerising dicarboxylic acids with diaminesNYLON5Down33 1987 Richard Attenborough film based on books by journalist Donald WoodsCRYFREEDOM10Down35 Faulty vision resulting from defective curvature of the cornea or lens of the eyeASTIGMATISM11Down36 Until 1959, the ruler of TibetDALAILAMA9Down38 Baron Passfield, British economist, social historian and Fabian socialist who helped found the London School of Economics and the New StatesmanSIDNEYWEBB10Down39 Home of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations by Charles DickensSATISHOUSE10Down41 Member of the Monty Python team who co-wrote the musical Spamalot with John Du PrezERICIDLE8Down43 A bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolveAXLETREE8Down44 A kind of dark tea, grown in China, that is partly fermented before being driedOOLONG6Down47 Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumageEGRET5Down48 Market town in West Yorkshire whose Variety Club was frequented by many notable acts between 1966 and 1977BATLEY6Down50 African country whose capital is NairobiKENYA5Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.