The Independent Crossword May 24 2025 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 24 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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Was cognisant of41 AcrossReveal answer → Disrespected (Slang)64 AcrossReveal answer → Scandal on Tyneside? Say it's not true66 AcrossReveal answer → Maker127 AcrossReveal answer → Bug 15D on road back88 AcrossReveal answer → Fencer's warning79 AcrossReveal answer → Beware of getting haircut - bloke's uncivilised710 AcrossReveal answer → Bookmakers' slang for odds of 2-1610 AcrossReveal answer → Culinary herb510 AcrossReveal answer → Stop appeal for material611 AcrossReveal answer → Flowery611 AcrossReveal answer → West Yorkshire village that was home to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë712 AcrossReveal answer → Figure getting a lot of sex but not as much love on reflection412 AcrossReveal answer → A style of singing characterised by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power813 AcrossReveal answer → Spoken613 AcrossReveal answer → God! I'm leaving country313 AcrossReveal answer → American shot putter who was 2004 Olympic men's champion1014 AcrossReveal answer → Former Labour MP for Rochdale who was the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Rochdale by-election1215 AcrossReveal answer → Bill backing FA - outsiders want it615 AcrossReveal answer → Picture within another516 AcrossReveal answer → Touching gift - not against what one of the outsiders is seeking1116 AcrossReveal answer → King of Mercia from 757 associated with an earthwork roughly following some of the current border between England and Wales416 AcrossReveal answer → City in Ohio nicknamed "Rubber Capital of the World"517 AcrossReveal answer → Flight company718 AcrossReveal answer → Singer-songwriter best known for his 1986 hit The Lady in Red1218 AcrossReveal answer → Reread by egghead, not BBC man Alan620 AcrossReveal answer → Bill ___, American jockey who held the world record for professional victories for 29 years920 AcrossReveal answer → Emphasise by contrast1220 AcrossReveal answer → Population count621 AcrossReveal answer → 1972 UK number one single by Chicory Tip, based on Nachts scheint die Sonne by Giorgio Moroder1321 AcrossReveal answer → Remaining422 AcrossReveal answer → Worry new government initiative's pointless322 AcrossReveal answer → Music's loud! Right about metal ultimately423 AcrossReveal answer → Well-spoken Roman hit man employed by company624 AcrossReveal answer → John Steinbeck novella featuring the characters George Milton and Lennie Small1225 AcrossReveal answer → Wrong people caught suffering726 AcrossReveal answer → Wrongly seizing woman's old home by force827 AcrossReveal answer → Football team that plays U D Las Palmas contest the Canary Islands derby1028 AcrossReveal answer → Sudden enlightenment as far as wearing dress628 AcrossReveal answer → The narrow strip along which fencing bouts take place530 AcrossReveal answer → Best Actress Oscar-winner for Annie Hall1131 AcrossReveal answer → American action figure launched in the UK as Action Man in 1966533 AcrossReveal answer → Football team supported by the Prince of Wales1036 AcrossReveal answer → Title given to General Bonaparte's aide-de-camp Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont in 18081237 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Columbia1339 AcrossReveal answer → Bignoniaceous tropical American tree with fernlike leaves and pale purple flowers942 AcrossReveal answer → Long-running series in the science fiction comic 2000 AD, featuring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter1245 AcrossReveal answer → Percy ___, businessman who opened his first bakery in East London in 1954548 AcrossReveal answer → A white salty Greek cheese made from the milk of ewes or goats449 AcrossReveal answer → Czech model and actress who featured in the iconic 1994 "Hello Boys" Wonderbra poster campaign1250 AcrossReveal answer → X-Men: ___, 2011 film in which James McAvoy plays Charles Xavier1052 AcrossReveal answer → American actress who played Laurie Partridge in The Partridge Family and Grace Van Owen in L.A. Law853 AcrossReveal answer → T S Eliot's middle name754 AcrossReveal answer → A woman of strict virtue in Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift and its sequel by John Vanbrugh, The Relapse655 AcrossReveal answer →

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Carry outside each cold bun71 DownReveal answer → Novel by William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island141 DownReveal answer → Easily charm tribe that'll exchange shells102 DownReveal answer → American golfer whose seven major championships include the Open Championship in 1932112 DownReveal answer → Nine-sided figure72 DownReveal answer → Slasher and boss (at time of writing) - foxtrot off!43 DownReveal answer → 16th-century oil on panel painting by Jan Sanders van Hemessen in the Prado Museum in Madrid that depicts a trepanation103 DownReveal answer → Light biscuit53 DownReveal answer → Considered millions abandoned and tricked44 DownReveal answer → Village on the River Avon near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire74 DownReveal answer → Stevedore64 DownReveal answer → An Italian sparkling wine named after a village near Trieste85 DownReveal answer → Coal container75 DownReveal answer → Mariner who previously played for England65 DownReveal answer → 1962 Agatha Christie Miss Marple story dedicated "To Margaret Rutherford, in admiration."296 DownReveal answer → Foe56 DownReveal answer → Scottish pro-independence political party founded in 202147 DownReveal answer → Memory aid87 DownReveal answer → Go on! Bill accompanies one outsider77 DownReveal answer → Pokémon species that evolves from Pikachu using the Thunder Stone in the Nintendo game series68 DownReveal answer → Recklessly determined88 DownReveal answer → Translation of 'Kampf' in Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf89 DownReveal answer → Locked up auditors' pub - sounded sad69 DownReveal answer → A mixture of meat, fish, etc, in a rich sauce, cooked in a mould lined with potato or pastry711 DownReveal answer → Lockjaw712 DownReveal answer → Nickname of the Star Trek character Leonard McCoy513 DownReveal answer → Sheriff's officer714 DownReveal answer → Fanatical attack involving Britain514 DownReveal answer → Cottager is suspect - he works with classified information1015 DownReveal answer → Stroke gently615 DownReveal answer → Going to attend - that's unusual717 DownReveal answer → Tea cake517 DownReveal answer → Content to share Signal? Leave job618 DownReveal answer → French word for 'child'619 DownReveal answer → Drive back519 DownReveal answer → Criticise Russian leader before getting a little stressed (are they working on roof?)719 DownReveal answer → Be unbalanced like one on X banning women621 DownReveal answer → Wafer or cracker made of unleavened bread, usually large, thin, and square, eaten especially during Passover, etc522 DownReveal answer → Machining process in which a cutting tool describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates723 DownReveal answer → 1970 Western starring Richard Harris as English aristocrat John Morgan1524 DownReveal answer → Listener's in spot ignoring outsiders425 DownReveal answer → A short prayer said or sung as the celebrant is entering the sanctuary to celebrate Mass726 DownReveal answer → Land for sale?426 DownReveal answer → 1993 Mike Leigh film starring David Thewlis527 DownReveal answer → See 62929 DownReveal answer → River that forms the border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg for about 50 km and flows into the Danube at Ulm532 DownReveal answer → A long-legged shore bird of the genus Recurvirostra634 DownReveal answer → 2008 number one single by Take That1135 DownReveal answer → Serious fungal disease of black and purple raspberries and blackberries1038 DownReveal answer → Legendary king of the Britons also called Eudaf Hen840 DownReveal answer → Military term for a region where the ruling authorities have lost control, first used in the Bush War in Rhodesia841 DownReveal answer → The forage plant Medicago sativa, also called lucerne743 DownReveal answer → See 471244 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, a city of Manasseh, six miles south-west of Shechem, that was the residence of Gideon646 DownReveal answer → English socialite and devotee of Adolf Hitler who had the middle name Valkyrie1247 DownReveal answer → 1981 Warren Beatty film in which Jack Nicholson plays Eugene O'Neill451 DownReveal answer →

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