The Independent Crossword May 31 2025 Answers

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Below are all 107 clues from the The Independent Crossword for May 31 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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Dung beetle31 AcrossReveal answer → Ruler here, pet target for bashing131 AcrossReveal answer → Consider53 AcrossReveal answer → Protection against rain87 AcrossReveal answer → Dressed48 AcrossReveal answer → Call for blood from unbelievable yahoo oddly79 AcrossReveal answer → Sweets109 AcrossReveal answer → Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida139 AcrossReveal answer → Crude stuff produced by e.g. Berkshire press710 AcrossReveal answer → Headless porter? That's uncannily frightening511 AcrossReveal answer → 1960s TV series, based on books by John Creasey, starring Steve Forrest as John Mannering811 AcrossReveal answer → Large scissors611 AcrossReveal answer → Being self-absorbed, Russians swimming will catch cold912 AcrossReveal answer → Favour613 AcrossReveal answer → A three-note chord consisting of a note and the third and fifth above it513 AcrossReveal answer → Northern son seen recycling garbage813 AcrossReveal answer → County whose administrative centre is Exeter514 AcrossReveal answer → Without help1014 AcrossReveal answer → Stay on at sea615 AcrossReveal answer → Charles Dickens novel featuring Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby915 AcrossReveal answer → Actor best known for playing Kwai Chang Caine, or "Grasshopper", in the 1970s TV series Kung Fu1416 AcrossReveal answer → The powdered stem of the tropical plant Curcuma longa817 AcrossReveal answer → Deficit418 AcrossReveal answer → Street wisdom about alcohol618 AcrossReveal answer → Name given to the Infantry Mk IV (A22) tank, the heaviest Allied tank used in World War II918 AcrossReveal answer → Bears with footwear and cushions819 AcrossReveal answer → Menace819 AcrossReveal answer → Broken piece520 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for a drop scone1320 AcrossReveal answer → Possesses321 AcrossReveal answer → Very long time needed to catch each TV series922 AcrossReveal answer → Some hitman in Japan?524 AcrossReveal answer → 1994 film starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, based on a novel by Michael Crichton1024 AcrossReveal answer → Baroque sculptor from Swiss city, fashionable one725 AcrossReveal answer → Old church bell needs colouring brownish-yellow726 AcrossReveal answer → Duck at McDonald's? It's overhyped in America1327 AcrossReveal answer → 1922 adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini1227 AcrossReveal answer → Daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea, who received a lock of Medusa's hair from Heracles to protect her town from attack729 AcrossReveal answer → One of the main satellites of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell in 1851731 AcrossReveal answer → London borough whose legal challenge scuppered the GLC's Fares Fair policy732 AcrossReveal answer → US state whose capital is Charleston1235 AcrossReveal answer → The 1989 feature film debut of screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Mel Smith, starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson1036 AcrossReveal answer → Debut single by The Honeycombs that topped the UK chart in 19641338 AcrossReveal answer → A 2-dimensional patterned array used to represent characters, symbols and images940 AcrossReveal answer → An Italian sparkling wine named after a village near Trieste843 AcrossReveal answer → The official map-making body of the British government1446 AcrossReveal answer → Book by Chinese writer Jung Chang subtitled Three Daughters of China949 AcrossReveal answer → 1979 John Schlesinger film starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave550 AcrossReveal answer → The toilets on a boat, in nautical slang551 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity chef, TV personality and former barrister best known as one half of the Two Fat Ladies, with Jennifer Paterson2152 AcrossReveal answer →

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English crime writer who created detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple141 DownReveal answer → Model runs into Fat Pang71 DownReveal answer → Large bottle81 DownReveal answer → Formerly, an infantryman armed with a light musket82 DownReveal answer → Play electronic dance music to entertain limitless Europeans92 DownReveal answer → Rustic52 DownReveal answer → White Italian wine grape variety grown primarily in the Marche region of central Italy103 DownReveal answer → Feature of much verse and church music, mostly used in religious studies53 DownReveal answer → Marine mammal53 DownReveal answer → Burnt aromatic substance74 DownReveal answer → A predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae64 DownReveal answer → Prominent feature film of the 90s: Basic Instinct?84 DownReveal answer → Pile45 DownReveal answer → Sultanate in NW Borneo whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan65 DownReveal answer → Rubberneckers gossip after popping by65 DownReveal answer → English composer whose works include the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the opera The Midsummer Marriage146 DownReveal answer → Famous London underwriters66 DownReveal answer → Elderly folk with urge to replace old kitchen gadgets96 DownReveal answer → Name Mrs March is called by her daughters in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women67 DownReveal answer → Names of parts of algebraic expressions from school days57 DownReveal answer → In computing, a lever by means of which the movement of a cursor can be controlled, used mainly for gaming88 DownReveal answer → Public service workers in harmony, though not technically68 DownReveal answer → In Arthurian legend, the mistress of Merlin, sometimes identified with the Lady of the Lake610 DownReveal answer → Unnecessary810 DownReveal answer → A special pack of cards used mainly for fortune-telling511 DownReveal answer → The ___, 1902 piano rag by Scott Joplin used as the theme music for the 1973 film The Sting1112 DownReveal answer → Loss of memory712 DownReveal answer → Religious house613 DownReveal answer → Cryptic notices circulating round the northernmost part of Milton Keynes?914 DownReveal answer → Fully satisfied515 DownReveal answer → Dance and sing about getting higher916 DownReveal answer → Educate516 DownReveal answer → Common sense (Informal)417 DownReveal answer → Follow Filipino around Norway817 DownReveal answer → Lord Coe impressed by Portuguese saint in Japanese port618 DownReveal answer → William ___, archbishop of Canterbury impeached by the Long Parliament in 1640 and executed in 1645419 DownReveal answer → Small dog's arrogant style of perambulation720 DownReveal answer → Old family bones brought to Italy621 DownReveal answer → Insect of the suborder Blattodea that is a household pest921 DownReveal answer → 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer422 DownReveal answer → Tart wears a new garment that only covers the front of body523 DownReveal answer → Colourless, tasteless powder consisting chiefly of mercurous chloride, used medicinally as a cathartic723 DownReveal answer → Ex-PM picked up female on the game524 DownReveal answer → A surgical instrument for scraping the walls of certain body cavities725 DownReveal answer → King of England from 23 April to 18 October 10161426 DownReveal answer → Educational institution founded in 1969 for distance learning1428 DownReveal answer → Viral disease of parrots that can be passed on to humans1130 DownReveal answer → In architecture, a moulding having a cross section in the form of a letter S433 DownReveal answer → The last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty434 DownReveal answer → Song by comedian Russ Abbot which reached number 7 in the charts in 19841037 DownReveal answer → The nocturnal mammal Proteles cristatus, that inhabits the plains of southern Africa and feeds on termites and insect larvae839 DownReveal answer → A red grape variety used in Australian wine production, principally in northern Victoria841 DownReveal answer → French resort noted for its annual film festival642 DownReveal answer → The firm white fibrous membrane that forms the outer covering of the eyeball644 DownReveal answer → The third largest city in Japan545 DownReveal answer → Solid carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant and in stage shows647 DownReveal answer → 1995 Martin Scorsese film for which Sharon Stone won a Best Actress Oscar nomination648 DownReveal answer →

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