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The Independent Crossword November 22 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword November 22 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 112 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#
Cereal grassRYE3Across1 Some parts read in a play about people in a playDRAMATISPERSONAE16Across1 BronzedTANNED6Across3 Part of sailing ship in which to store dry bootyBOTTOM6Across6 Cooked squidCALAMARI8Across7 BucketPAIL4Across8 Shockingly badOUTRAGEOUS10Across9 Two qualities linked by special criterionTOUCHSTONE10Across9 Gloomy American writer with little time for his jobPOET4Across10 Horse wouldn’t initially be backed into trapCOBWEB6Across11 A container, often made of papier-mâché, filled with treats and broken as part of a ceremony or celebrationPINATA6Across11 NegligentREMISS6Across11 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film with a dramatic conclusion at Mount RushmoreNORTHBYNORTHWEST16Across12 Royal Navy’s first cutting costs and first to sufferPRINCESS8Across12 FavourPREFER6Across13 CampanologistBELLRINGER10Across14 The religious system of a church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866CHRISTIANSCIENCE16Across14 Shylock’s beginning his role having lost a few pounds?SLENDER7Across14 Stick man cartoon character created by Giles AndreaePURPLERONNIE12Across15 An incised die used to make a design in reliefINTAGLIO8Across16 Cluster of buildings in hospital unit lacking in charmHAMLET6Across17 1945 children's novel by E B White about a talking mouseSTUARTLITTLE12Across17 SpiceMACE4Across18 Put boats in this Mexican sea belonging to America?MARINA6Across18 BullfighterTOREADOR8Across19 1989 film about the Profumo affair starring Joanne Whalley and John HurtSCANDAL7Across20 Small hunting dogBEAGLE6Across20 Neckwear itemTIE3Across21 Genre of music heard in Low CountryMOROCCO7Across21 The most watched TV show in the United States from 1989 to 1990ROSEANNE8Across22 A former name for influenzaGRIPPE6Across23 Soldier Soldier’s after material to suitSERGEANT8Across24 Hebrew prophet persecuted for denouncing Ahab and JezebelELIJAH6Across25 The original stream split and re-joined anewMASTER6Across26 The immature fruit of any of various cucumbers after which the London building at 30 St Mary Axe is nicknamedGHERKIN7Across27 Parsonage doesn’t need fires being lit for servantPAGE4Across28 See 42JACQUESCOUSTEAU15Across29 Emaciated type of iridescent bird gobbling vegetable peelSTARVELING10Across30 Japanese cartoon films of which Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train is the highest-grossing exampleANIME5Across30 Bring news of some peripheral damageHERALD6Across31 Area in London that is home to Portobello Road MarketNOTTINGHILL11Across31 See 1DRAMATISPERSONAE16Across32 US poet of the Beat Generation who appears in the opening segment of D A Pennebaker's film, Dont Look BackALLENGINSBERG13Across33 Insect of the genus Calliphora, also called a bluebottleBLOWFLY7Across37 See 15PURPLERONNIE12Across38 A straight line that cuts a curve at one or more placesSECANT6Across39 Naiad who became one with Hermaphroditus in Ovid's MetamorphosesSALMACIS8Across40 French underwater explorer who co-developed the aqualung and pioneered marine conservationJACQUESCOUSTEAU15Across42 1987 black comedy film written and directed by Bruce RobinsonWITHNAILANDI12Across45 Small marine food fish of the herring familyPILCHARD8Across46 American rapper born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar in 1992CARDIB6Across49 1994 Ang Lee film that received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language FilmEATDRINKMANWOMAN16Across51 1980 Average White Band song that gave Louise a top ten hit in 1987LETSGOROUNDAGAIN16Across52 A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters which cause itching and bleedingECZEMA6Across53

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The seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendarTISHRI6Down1 Well thought-outREASONED8Down1 Country whose capital is IslamabadPAKISTAN8Down2 Journey north from Mexican river presumably without restraintRIOTOUS7Down2 PreciseEXACT5Down2 Attractive Amazonian women chasing short man aboutMACAW5Down3 The art of compiling or drawing maps or chartsCARTOGRAPHY11Down3 Two timesTWICE5Down3 Develop better detailed limits to designs hereTESTBED7Down4 PlanetNEPTUNE7Down4 Canadian province with the largest populationONTARIO7Down4 Way outEXIT4Down5 Port in Brittany that is France's chief naval stationBREST5Down5 Duck and orange starter served in upturned bowlsSTOOP5Down5 PesterHARASS6Down6 Linford ___, 1992 Olympic men's 100m championCHRISTIE8Down6 Superficial problem of Belgian region (Belgium not France)BLEMISH7Down6 American actress, director and screenwriter married to actor Cary Grant from 1965 to 1968DYANCANNON10Down7 Opposite to a 6, perhaps, on a clock face?TOP3Down7 American humorist whose short film How to Sleep won Best Short Subject at the 1935 OscarsROBERTBENCHLEY14Down8 To look after Old English poetry’s boringOVERSEE7Down8 1991 Lewis Gilbert film starring Liza MinnelliSTEPPINGOUT11Down9 Tristan und ___, opera by Richard Wagner largely based on a romance by Gottfried von StrassburgISOLDE6Down10 FrighteningFEARSOME8Down10 Hazard to shippingICEBERG7Down12 Religious housePRIORY6Down13 1970 US number one single for Edwin StarrWAR3Down13 Funny peculiar: 10cc eating a bit of minestroneCOMIC5Down13 Liquid measureLITRE5Down15 Considering playing an extra shot to avoid wet spongy groundEYING5Down15 AllowanceGRANT5Down16 Strange spirit of small Scottish isleRUM3Down16 Inland body of waterLAKE4Down17 Athletic contest featuring swimming, cycling and runningTRIATHLON9Down18 Mean to maintain a good posture, mostly failingAVERAGE7Down19 Sail and rigging system used on sailboats, typically sloopsSOLENT6Down19 Put together a service led without LatinAMASSED7Down20 Plant with unrelated greater and lesser varieties, Chelidonium majus and Ranunculus ficariaCELANDINE9Down21 Warm cream coming thirdly on top of cold cream?REMOVER7Down22 Many island nations reflected green craze, but not MaltaOCEANIA7Down23 Another name for a calumetPEACEPIPE9Down24 Rover spaceship Martians seize from belowTRAMP5Down25 Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were a major factor in the Industrial RevolutionJAMESWATT9Down26 Shelling eggs, including large and small in turnSALVO5Down27 Belgian novelist who created the detective MaigretGEORGESSIMENON14Down27 The Japanese art of fencingKENDO5Down28 When one's due in Greek hotel?ETA3Down29 Van ___, American actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Johnny EagerHEFLIN6Down32 Market town in the Teignbridge District of Devon that has a racecourseNEWTONABBOT11Down34 English comedian, TV presenter, singer and actor who won the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Musical Actor for JolsonBRIANCONLEY11Down35 R M ___, Scottish author whose children's books include The Coral IslandBALLANTYNE10Down37 Terry ___, Australian bowler who took 42 Test wickets, including nine on his debut, in the Ashes series in England in 1981ALDERMAN8Down41 French for fourteenQUATORZE8Down43 An exceptionally hard mineral found in certain igneous rocks, especially the kimberlites of South AfricaDIAMOND7Down44 A small predatory mammal of the genus MustelaWEASEL6Down45 In Hinduism, social custom regarded as a religious and moral dutyDHARMA6Down47 Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36INVAR5Down48 British furniture retailer founded as Northern Upholstery in 1969DFS3Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, November 22, 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.