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The Independent Crossword May 26 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 26 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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Poetic work the first with dramatic stakes? Guess not...131 AcrossReveal answer → Benefit46 AcrossReveal answer → Snooker ball37 AcrossReveal answer → Male deer48 AcrossReveal answer → Detective to probe corrupt Vatican ruler's principles158 AcrossReveal answer → Trying experience69 AcrossReveal answer → Sloping610 AcrossReveal answer → What holy folk will give in Frankie and Benny's, maybe?1510 AcrossReveal answer → Latin poet's moving verse for abyss411 AcrossReveal answer → Defuse a tense situation1111 AcrossReveal answer → Location down under home to certain devils reclining on throne?312 AcrossReveal answer → Mephistopheles initially leading wicked staff414 AcrossReveal answer → Overbearing1114 AcrossReveal answer → Accused person may enter this place with endless heat416 AcrossReveal answer → Short of money618 AcrossReveal answer → Casino's hosting 21, perhaps318 AcrossReveal answer → Fire and brimstone beginning to affect label on pants419 AcrossReveal answer → Hair colour620 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly421 AcrossReveal answer → Weapon322 AcrossReveal answer → Fiendish act I'm in on with liar is creating offence1522 AcrossReveal answer → A great many423 AcrossReveal answer → Obviously diabolical spirit's vile and tart when drunk by yard1526 AcrossReveal answer → Underground Zones 1-9 – might four answers here be called one of them?1327 AcrossReveal answer →

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Wed51 DownReveal answer → One taken in by proof all made up92 DownReveal answer → Breakfast food62 DownReveal answer → Caught on top of tower with specially picked locks73 DownReveal answer → Notion43 DownReveal answer → Second husband a big hit – or old hat54 DownReveal answer → Postpone64 DownReveal answer → Church centres called out scoundrels55 DownReveal answer → Frenzied75 DownReveal answer → Body part some heard rumbling76 DownReveal answer → Futile gesture snubbed by crossword setters online57 DownReveal answer → Set free77 DownReveal answer → Reminder to include right solution48 DownReveal answer → A couple of significant others nothing to write home about49 DownReveal answer → NASA program regularly blocked sites312 DownReveal answer → Ground712 DownReveal answer → Narcotic drug713 DownReveal answer → Successfully sunbathe in vessel with bottom out313 DownReveal answer → Firm friend swallows pill before large red915 DownReveal answer → Certainly615 DownReveal answer → Dainty bite616 DownReveal answer → Bubbly mass517 DownReveal answer → Insiders from navy like a certain Bond dealing with gadgets in the air717 DownReveal answer → Rejecting "siestas", I don't say a word in this language719 DownReveal answer → Boy attendant419 DownReveal answer → The first day of advent's flipping cold420 DownReveal answer → What sounds just like its heart's desire421 DownReveal answer → Newspaper carrying Methuselah's second-rate bits of verse523 DownReveal answer → One who's six feet under concerned with cave524 DownReveal answer → Amigo spoiled how The Metamorphosis ends525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Monday, May 26, 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.