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The Independent Crossword May 26 2025 Answers

Monday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword May 26 2025 answers. The Monday puzzle has 54 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#
Poetic work the first with dramatic stakes? Guess not...DANTESINFERNO13Across1 BenefitSAKE4Across6 Snooker ballRED3Across7 Male deerHART4Across8 Detective to probe corrupt Vatican ruler's principlesCARDINALVIRTUES15Across8 Trying experienceORDEAL6Across9 SlopingASLANT6Across10 What holy folk will give in Frankie and Benny's, maybe?RELIGIOUSORDERS15Across10 Latin poet's moving verse for abyssVOID4Across11 Defuse a tense situationCLEARTHEAIR11Across11 Location down under home to certain devils reclining on throne?SAT3Across12 Mephistopheles initially leading wicked staffMACE4Across14 OverbearingDOMINEERING11Across14 Accused person may enter this place with endless heatPLEA4Across16 Short of moneyHARDUP6Across18 Casino's hosting 21, perhapsSIN3Across18 Fire and brimstone beginning to affect label on pantsSACK4Across19 Hair colourAUBURN6Across20 FormerlyONCE4Across21 WeaponGUN3Across22 Fiendish act I'm in on with liar is creating offenceCRIMINALISATION15Across22 A great manyLOTS4Across23 Obviously diabolical spirit's vile and tart when drunk by yardDEMONSTRATIVELY15Across26 Underground Zones 1-9 – might four answers here be called one of them?CIRCLESOFHELL13Across27

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
WedMARRY5Down1 One taken in by proof all made upAPRILFOOL9Down2 Breakfast foodCEREAL6Down2 Caught on top of tower with specially picked locksTWIGGED7Down3 NotionIDEA4Down3 Second husband a big hit – or old hatSHAKO5Down4 PostponeSHELVE6Down4 Church centres called out scoundrelsNAVES5Down5 FrenziedFRANTIC7Down5 Body part some heard rumblingEARDRUM7Down6 Futile gesture snubbed by crossword setters onlineNOUSE5Down7 Set freeRELEASE7Down7 Reminder to include right solutionCURE4Down8 A couple of significant others nothing to write home aboutSOSO4Down9 NASA program regularly blocked sitesSTS3Down12 GroundTERRAIN7Down12 Narcotic drugCOCAINE7Down13 Successfully sunbathe in vessel with bottom outTAN3Down13 Firm friend swallows pill before large redCOCHINEAL9Down15 CertainlyINDEED6Down15 Dainty biteNIBBLE6Down16 Bubbly massFROTH5Down17 Insiders from navy like a certain Bond dealing with gadgets in the airAVIONIC7Down17 Rejecting "siestas", I don't say a word in this languageSPANISH7Down19 Boy attendantPAGE4Down19 The first day of advent's flipping coldICED4Down20 What sounds just like its heart's desireENVY4Down21 Newspaper carrying Methuselah's second-rate bits of verseIAMBI5Down23 One who's six feet under concerned with caveANTRE5Down24 Amigo spoiled how The Metamorphosis endsIMAGO5Down25

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