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The Independent Crossword November 21 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword November 21 2025 answers. The Friday puzzle has 57 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#
Finish hosting mass danceSTOMP5Across1 UnclothedNUDE4Across1 Snakelike fishEEL3Across3 Ancient President continues to mock, interrupted by a couple of fellowsJEFFERSON9Across4 Precious metalSILVER6Across7 LarderPANTRY6Across8 Prison roomCELL4Across9 Scoundrels seizing a popular firm making protective clothingRAINCOATS9Across9 Accept new tenant – show kindness, forgetting nameRELET5Across10 ExercisesPRESSUPS8Across10 Fast response police groupFLYINGSQUAD11Across11 Inventor backed team, never taking a different directionEDISON6Across11 Frankly, a German writer has penned a word in French after reflectionMANTOMAN8Across12 Risky to accept dangerous order, creating difference of opinionDICHOTOMY9Across14 Exercise weightDUMBBELL8Across14 Fate indicated by doctor having troubled airMOIRA5Across16 PartialityBIAS4Across17 Instructions regarding Cambridge UniversityREMIT5Across18 DistantFAROFF6Across19 Sailors' songSHANTY6Across20 New train set, handled roughly, is not lasting longTRANSIENT9Across20 NoughtNIL3Across21 ExpensiveDEAR4Across22 Source of medicine rapid to limit damagePHARMACY8Across22 Copper’s having volume reduced in usual approachCUSTOM6Across23 Precise over author LeviPRIMO5Across26 Brave figure, drunk, throttling working judgeLIONHEART9Across27 Main tempo disrupted in theatrical performancePANTOMIME9Across28 Rock star duly abandoning core networkDYLAN5Across29

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
IngenuousNAIVE5Down1 Increasingly guaranteed to suppress tear in cessation of hostilities?SURRENDER9Down1 Antelope pen erected, supplied with electric currentORIBI5Down2 Reckless mischiefDEVILRY7Down2 Officer in photo with old wind instrumentPICCOLO7Down3 UtterEXPRESS7Down3 Not a real Pope - just one acting nobly at the outsetJOAN4Down4 Seaside golf courseLINKS5Down4 Concern about one shabby economic periodFISCALYEAR10Down5 Let fallDROP4Down5 Regret picking up half the letters for nuclear organisationEURATOM7Down6 Three-legged standTRIPOD6Down6 Confirm Elon M is whirling in empty spaceSOLEMNISE9Down7 Midday about time? It’s impracticableNOTON5Down8 ThriftyFRUGAL6Down11 NecessaryNEEDFUL7Down12 DispleasureUMBRAGE7Down13 Reserve litre during finishing off beer production, dismissing no good source of artworkBOTTICELLI10Down13 Conservative head bracketing MP with a colleagueCOMPANION9Down15 ColourBROWN5Down15 Defeat in sportLOSS4Down16 Accepted French article about fruit is something powered by AI?AUTOMATON9Down17 ChangeALTER5Down18 Sandbar a grave by itself, first of ships being lostTOMBOLO7Down19 Kept quiet and all but closed garden buildingSHUSHED7Down21 Work appearing in youngster’s website featurePOPUP5Down22 Follower crossing river pathTRAIL5Down24 Increasingly upsetting most of Catholicism?MORE4Down25

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, November 21, 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.