The Independent Crossword May 25 2024 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 25 2024. 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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Flatfish61 AcrossReveal answer → Evil spirit55 AcrossReveal answer → Forgetful128 AcrossReveal answer → Stunned in struggle for possession, led by a point99 AcrossReveal answer → Serving dish79 AcrossReveal answer → See 52110 AcrossReveal answer → Strong wind410 AcrossReveal answer → The North Pacific animal Enhydra lutris, formerly hunted for its thick fur810 AcrossReveal answer → Dog treats 22 across 26?511 AcrossReveal answer → Any one of 92 members of the House of Lords whose entitlement is inherited1412 AcrossReveal answer → Go away!412 AcrossReveal answer → Film of some value that's all over the Oscars?912 AcrossReveal answer → News boss about to join army shows merit713 AcrossReveal answer → Mare that won the 1948 Grand National1414 AcrossReveal answer → Tyre so bald, sons twice pulled out foot-lever714 AcrossReveal answer → Door fastener414 AcrossReveal answer → Port in Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras that was the scene of a 1571 naval battle715 AcrossReveal answer → A priest's cassock in the Roman Catholic Church716 AcrossReveal answer → Adoptee supposedly lucky to miss first course516 AcrossReveal answer → Female horse417 AcrossReveal answer → Unlawful718 AcrossReveal answer → Wrong end of torpedo going off318 AcrossReveal answer → 1949 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten1418 AcrossReveal answer → Fold left trapped by decaying vegetable matter519 AcrossReveal answer → 1800 play by Friedrich Schiller used as the basic for an opera by Gaetano Donizetti1020 AcrossReveal answer → British comedian whose real name was Charlie Olden621 AcrossReveal answer → Nick quiet: quiet sitting in cage721 AcrossReveal answer → Meteor1221 AcrossReveal answer → Match between local teams522 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely dull romance developed with shy doctor1222 AcrossReveal answer → The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapilla523 AcrossReveal answer → Abrupt623 AcrossReveal answer → Butcher's dividing merchandise, fetching property924 AcrossReveal answer → Tunisian-born Italian actress whose films include The Leopard and The Pink Panther1626 AcrossReveal answer → See 22 across1226 AcrossReveal answer → Show remorse having sent off one right winger527 AcrossReveal answer → US shooter Jack disrupted nation928 AcrossReveal answer → Set of two facing cymbals operated by a foot pedal529 AcrossReveal answer → Country whose capital is Tallinn730 AcrossReveal answer → La Liga football club based in Pamplona732 AcrossReveal answer → Pierre-Paul ___, French Romantic painter and draughtsman whose 1805 Portrait of Joséphine de Beauharnais hangs in the Louvre734 AcrossReveal answer → Small shrub in the family Labiatae with a strong mintlike odour537 AcrossReveal answer → Colombian racing driver whose first Formula One win was the 2001 Italian Grand Prix1638 AcrossReveal answer → The holiest city of Islam541 AcrossReveal answer → The brightest star in the sky642 AcrossReveal answer → Italian romantic novelist and poet best known for his historical novel I Promessi sposi1743 AcrossReveal answer → Italian poet who wrote the Divina Commedia1447 AcrossReveal answer → See 431751 AcrossReveal answer → Italian city that is home to the oldest university in the Western world752 AcrossReveal answer → Snack food that comes in Linoleic, high oleic and Nusun varieties1453 AcrossReveal answer → General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 19821455 AcrossReveal answer → French city that is capital of the Eure-et-Loir department856 AcrossReveal answer →

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Great day! Old boy needs raincoat going up country81 DownReveal answer → In the New Testament, a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers81 DownReveal answer → Group around bar suffering reversal in game62 DownReveal answer → The first of Slade's six UK number one singles102 DownReveal answer → Defame52 DownReveal answer → After a terrible start score with some difficulty103 DownReveal answer → British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and The Light of Day103 DownReveal answer → Imagining83 DownReveal answer → Soldier in Cornish resort's something smuggled in swimwear?64 DownReveal answer → An athlete such as Randy Barnes or Geoff Capes104 DownReveal answer → One or the other64 DownReveal answer → Jean-Robert ___, French mathematician who devised a diagram that displays complex numbers65 DownReveal answer → Collection of 11 on to be cooked with butcher paid — scandalous fact?215 DownReveal answer → Forbidding45 DownReveal answer → Eccentric76 DownReveal answer → Feeble type with mischievous child46 DownReveal answer → See 46106 DownReveal answer → 1990 film starring Bette Midler based on a 1920 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty67 DownReveal answer → Accounts book67 DownReveal answer → Put pins round seat covering tailor's frame87 DownReveal answer → One name for the pest Myzus persicae128 DownReveal answer → Idolise at all during Religious Education?68 DownReveal answer → Jean ___, French film director whose works include La grande illusion69 DownReveal answer → Series of small cars produced from 1957 to 1991 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau711 DownReveal answer → Preoccupied811 DownReveal answer → ___ of Hentzau, sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope published in 1898613 DownReveal answer → Give shelter to713 DownReveal answer → Entertained615 DownReveal answer → Blokes inside Ptolemy disturbed, creating work1015 DownReveal answer → Window shades616 DownReveal answer → The governor or prefect of a modern Greek province617 DownReveal answer → Universal poacher initially going in wears bears out818 DownReveal answer → 1984 American war film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen719 DownReveal answer → Saying519 DownReveal answer → Remain420 DownReveal answer → Old rocker in sexy underwear — I'm thrilled!820 DownReveal answer → Small seal called out for young creature in river621 DownReveal answer → Stefanos ___, Greek tennis player who won the 2019 ATP Finals on his debut in the year-end tournament921 DownReveal answer → Radiance of religious figure drawn into temptation622 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, the second son of Adam and Eve422 DownReveal answer → Freezing cold in lorry623 DownReveal answer → See 271424 DownReveal answer → Escapee at Sodom hard and reluctant425 DownReveal answer → The northernmost town on the British mainland625 DownReveal answer → English actress who appeared in Woody Allen's film Husbands And Wives and the sitcom Three Up, Two Down1427 DownReveal answer → Painting by Vincent van Gogh that became the most expensive painting ever sold in 1987628 DownReveal answer → Compound used in a blowpipe for cutting or welding metals at high temperatures1231 DownReveal answer → The world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese733 DownReveal answer → English production duo comprising Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin whose biggest UK hit was Anthem in 1991435 DownReveal answer → German vocal group whose hits include Rivers of Babylon and Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord636 DownReveal answer → The capital of the Slovak Republic1039 DownReveal answer → Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti1040 DownReveal answer → Spanish drink of red wine, sugar, fruit juice and iced soda744 DownReveal answer → Animal known as a caribou in North America845 DownReveal answer → 1985 film starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges1046 DownReveal answer → See 31048 DownReveal answer → City in Ecuador that is capital of the Imbabura Province649 DownReveal answer → A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years650 DownReveal answer → Roni ___, stage name of record producer and DJ Ryan Owen Granville Williams453 DownReveal answer → Texas city associated with a 1993 siege involving the the Branch Davidians454 DownReveal answer →

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