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The Independent Crossword May 24 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword May 24 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Was cognisant ofKNEW4Across1 Disrespected (Slang)DISSED6Across4 Scandal on Tyneside? Say it's not trueNEGATE6Across6 MakerMANUFACTURER12Across7 Bug 15D on road backLISTERIA8Across8 Fencer's warningENGARDE7Across9 Beware of getting haircut - bloke's uncivilisedCAVEMAN7Across10 Bookmakers' slang for odds of 2-1BOTTLE6Across10 Culinary herbTHYME5Across10 Stop appeal for materialDAMASK6Across11 FloweryORNATE6Across11 West Yorkshire village that was home to Charlotte, Emily and Anne BrontëHAWORTH7Across12 Figure getting a lot of sex but not as much love on reflectionIKON4Across12 A style of singing characterised by beauty of tone rather than dramatic powerBELCANTO8Across13 SpokenVERBAL6Across13 God! I'm leaving countryTYR3Across13 American shot putter who was 2004 Olympic men's championADAMNELSON10Across14 Former Labour MP for Rochdale who was the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Rochdale by-electionSIMONDANCZUK12Across15 Bill backing FA - outsiders want itCANADA6Across15 Picture within anotherINSET5Across16 Touching gift - not against what one of the outsiders is seekingRETRIBUTION11Across16 King of Mercia from 757 associated with an earthwork roughly following some of the current border between England and WalesOFFA4Across16 City in Ohio nicknamed "Rubber Capital of the World"AKRON5Across17 Flight companyAIRLINE7Across18 Singer-songwriter best known for his 1986 hit The Lady in RedCHRISDEBURGH12Across18 Reread by egghead, not BBC man AlanYENTOB6Across20 Bill ___, American jockey who held the world record for professional victories for 29 yearsSHOEMAKER9Across20 Emphasise by contrastCOUNTERPOINT12Across20 Population countCENSUS6Across21 1972 UK number one single by Chicory Tip, based on Nachts scheint die Sonne by Giorgio MoroderSONOFMYFATHER13Across21 RemainingLEFT4Across22 Worry new government initiative's pointlessDOG3Across22 Music's loud! Right about metal ultimatelyFOLK4Across23 Well-spoken Roman hit man employed by companyCICERO6Across24 John Steinbeck novella featuring the characters George Milton and Lennie SmallOFMICEANDMEN12Across25 Wrong people caught sufferingTORMENT7Across26 Wrongly seizing woman's old home by forceANNEXING8Across27 Football team that plays U D Las Palmas contest the Canary Islands derbyCDTENERIFE10Across28 Sudden enlightenment as far as wearing dressSATORI6Across28 The narrow strip along which fencing bouts take placePISTE5Across30 Best Actress Oscar-winner for Annie HallDIANEKEATON11Across31 American action figure launched in the UK as Action Man in 1966GIJOE5Across33 Football team supported by the Prince of WalesASTONVILLA10Across36 Title given to General Bonaparte's aide-de-camp Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont in 1808DUKEOFRAGUSA12Across37 US state whose capital is ColumbiaSOUTHCAROLINA13Across39 Bignoniaceous tropical American tree with fernlike leaves and pale purple flowersJACARANDA9Across42 Long-running series in the science fiction comic 2000 AD, featuring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunterSTRONTIUMDOG12Across45 Percy ___, businessman who opened his first bakery in East London in 1954INGLE5Across48 A white salty Greek cheese made from the milk of ewes or goatsFETA4Across49 Czech model and actress who featured in the iconic 1994 "Hello Boys" Wonderbra poster campaignEVAHERZIGOVA12Across50 X-Men: ___, 2011 film in which James McAvoy plays Charles XavierFIRSTCLASS10Across52 American actress who played Laurie Partridge in The Partridge Family and Grace Van Owen in L.A. LawSUSANDEY8Across53 T S Eliot's middle nameSTEARNS7Across54 A woman of strict virtue in Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift and its sequel by John Vanbrugh, The RelapseAMANDA6Across55

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Carry outside each cold bunTEACAKE7Down1 Novel by William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited islandLORDOFTHEFLIES14Down1 Easily charm tribe that'll exchange shellsHERMITCRAB10Down2 American golfer whose seven major championships include the Open Championship in 1932GENESARAZEN11Down2 Nine-sided figureNONAGON7Down2 Slasher and boss (at time of writing) - foxtrot off!ELON4Down3 16th-century oil on panel painting by Jan Sanders van Hemessen in the Prado Museum in Madrid that depicts a trepanationTHESURGEON10Down3 Light biscuitWAFER5Down3 Considered millions abandoned and trickedUSED4Down4 Village on the River Avon near Tewkesbury in GloucestershireTWYNING7Down4 StevedoreDOCKER6Down4 An Italian sparkling wine named after a village near TriestePROSECCO8Down5 Coal containerSCUTTLE7Down5 Mariner who previously played for EnglandSEAMAN6Down5 1962 Agatha Christie Miss Marple story dedicated "To Margaret Rutherford, in admiration."THEMIRRORCRACKDFROMSIDETOSIDE29Down6 FoeENEMY5Down6 Scottish pro-independence political party founded in 2021ALBA4Down7 Memory aidMNEMONIC8Down7 Go on! Bill accompanies one outsiderADVANCE7Down7 Pokémon species that evolves from Pikachu using the Thunder Stone in the Nintendo game seriesRAICHU6Down8 Recklessly determinedHELLBENT8Down8 Translation of 'Kampf' in Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book Mein KampfSTRUGGLE8Down9 Locked up auditors' pub - sounded sadINSIDE6Down9 A mixture of meat, fish, etc, in a rich sauce, cooked in a mould lined with potato or pastryTIMBALE7Down11 LockjawTETANUS7Down12 Nickname of the Star Trek character Leonard McCoyBONES5Down13 Sheriff's officerBAILIFF7Down14 Fanatical attack involving BritainRABID5Down14 Cottager is suspect - he works with classified informationCATEGORIST10Down15 Stroke gentlyCARESS6Down15 Going to attend - that's unusualOFFBEAT7Down17 Tea cakeSCONE5Down17 Content to share Signal? Leave jobRESIGN6Down18 French word for 'child'ENFANT6Down19 Drive backREPEL5Down19 Criticise Russian leader before getting a little stressed (are they working on roof?)SLATERS7Down19 Be unbalanced like one on X banning womenTEETER6Down21 Wafer or cracker made of unleavened bread, usually large, thin, and square, eaten especially during Passover, etcMATZO5Down22 Machining process in which a cutting tool describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotatesTURNING7Down23 1970 Western starring Richard Harris as English aristocrat John MorganAMANCALLEDHORSE15Down24 Listener's in spot ignoring outsidersOTIC4Down25 A short prayer said or sung as the celebrant is entering the sanctuary to celebrate MassINTROIT7Down26 Land for sale?TOGO4Down26 1993 Mike Leigh film starring David ThewlisNAKED5Down27 See 6THEMIRRORCRACKDFROMSIDETOSIDE29Down29 River that forms the border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg for about 50 km and flows into the Danube at UlmILLER5Down32 A long-legged shore bird of the genus RecurvirostraAVOCET6Down34 2008 number one single by Take ThatGREATESTDAY11Down35 Serious fungal disease of black and purple raspberries and blackberriesORANGERUST10Down38 Legendary king of the Britons also called Eudaf HenOCTAVIUS8Down40 Military term for a region where the ruling authorities have lost control, first used in the Bush War in RhodesiaNOGOAREA8Down41 The forage plant Medicago sativa, also called lucerneALFALFA7Down43 See 47UNITYMITFORD12Down44 In the Old Testament, a city of Manasseh, six miles south-west of Shechem, that was the residence of GideonOPHRAH6Down46 English socialite and devotee of Adolf Hitler who had the middle name ValkyrieUNITYMITFORD12Down47 1981 Warren Beatty film in which Jack Nicholson plays Eugene O'NeillREDS4Down51

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, May 24, 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.