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The Independent Crossword November 21 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 21 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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Finish hosting mass dance51 AcrossReveal answer → Unclothed41 AcrossReveal answer → Snakelike fish33 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient President continues to mock, interrupted by a couple of fellows94 AcrossReveal answer → Precious metal67 AcrossReveal answer → Larder68 AcrossReveal answer → Prison room49 AcrossReveal answer → Scoundrels seizing a popular firm making protective clothing99 AcrossReveal answer → Accept new tenant – show kindness, forgetting name510 AcrossReveal answer → Exercises810 AcrossReveal answer → Fast response police group1111 AcrossReveal answer → Inventor backed team, never taking a different direction611 AcrossReveal answer → Frankly, a German writer has penned a word in French after reflection812 AcrossReveal answer → Risky to accept dangerous order, creating difference of opinion914 AcrossReveal answer → Exercise weight814 AcrossReveal answer → Fate indicated by doctor having troubled air516 AcrossReveal answer → Partiality417 AcrossReveal answer → Instructions regarding Cambridge University518 AcrossReveal answer → Distant619 AcrossReveal answer → Sailors' song620 AcrossReveal answer → New train set, handled roughly, is not lasting long920 AcrossReveal answer → Nought321 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive422 AcrossReveal answer → Source of medicine rapid to limit damage822 AcrossReveal answer → Copper’s having volume reduced in usual approach623 AcrossReveal answer → Precise over author Levi526 AcrossReveal answer → Brave figure, drunk, throttling working judge927 AcrossReveal answer → Main tempo disrupted in theatrical performance928 AcrossReveal answer → Rock star duly abandoning core network529 AcrossReveal answer →

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Ingenuous51 DownReveal answer → Increasingly guaranteed to suppress tear in cessation of hostilities?91 DownReveal answer → Antelope pen erected, supplied with electric current52 DownReveal answer → Reckless mischief72 DownReveal answer → Officer in photo with old wind instrument73 DownReveal answer → Utter73 DownReveal answer → Not a real Pope - just one acting nobly at the outset44 DownReveal answer → Seaside golf course54 DownReveal answer → Concern about one shabby economic period105 DownReveal answer → Let fall45 DownReveal answer → Regret picking up half the letters for nuclear organisation76 DownReveal answer → Three-legged stand66 DownReveal answer → Confirm Elon M is whirling in empty space97 DownReveal answer → Midday about time? It’s impracticable58 DownReveal answer → Thrifty611 DownReveal answer → Necessary712 DownReveal answer → Displeasure713 DownReveal answer → Reserve litre during finishing off beer production, dismissing no good source of artwork1013 DownReveal answer → Conservative head bracketing MP with a colleague915 DownReveal answer → Colour515 DownReveal answer → Defeat in sport416 DownReveal answer → Accepted French article about fruit is something powered by AI?917 DownReveal answer → Change518 DownReveal answer → Sandbar a grave by itself, first of ships being lost719 DownReveal answer → Kept quiet and all but closed garden building721 DownReveal answer → Work appearing in youngster’s website feature522 DownReveal answer → Follower crossing river path524 DownReveal answer → Increasingly upsetting most of Catholicism?425 DownReveal answer →

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