The Independent Crossword November 22 2025 Answers

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Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 22 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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Cereal grass31 AcrossReveal answer → Some parts read in a play about people in a play161 AcrossReveal answer → Bronzed63 AcrossReveal answer → Part of sailing ship in which to store dry booty66 AcrossReveal answer → Cooked squid87 AcrossReveal answer → Bucket48 AcrossReveal answer → Shockingly bad109 AcrossReveal answer → Two qualities linked by special criterion109 AcrossReveal answer → Gloomy American writer with little time for his job410 AcrossReveal answer → Horse wouldn’t initially be backed into trap611 AcrossReveal answer → A container, often made of papier-mâché, filled with treats and broken as part of a ceremony or celebration611 AcrossReveal answer → Negligent611 AcrossReveal answer → 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film with a dramatic conclusion at Mount Rushmore1612 AcrossReveal answer → Royal Navy’s first cutting costs and first to suffer812 AcrossReveal answer → Favour613 AcrossReveal answer → Campanologist1014 AcrossReveal answer → The religious system of a church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 18661614 AcrossReveal answer → Shylock’s beginning his role having lost a few pounds?714 AcrossReveal answer → Stick man cartoon character created by Giles Andreae1215 AcrossReveal answer → An incised die used to make a design in relief816 AcrossReveal answer → Cluster of buildings in hospital unit lacking in charm617 AcrossReveal answer → 1945 children's novel by E B White about a talking mouse1217 AcrossReveal answer → Spice418 AcrossReveal answer → Put boats in this Mexican sea belonging to America?618 AcrossReveal answer → Bullfighter819 AcrossReveal answer → 1989 film about the Profumo affair starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt720 AcrossReveal answer → Small hunting dog620 AcrossReveal answer → Neckwear item321 AcrossReveal answer → Genre of music heard in Low Country721 AcrossReveal answer → The most watched TV show in the United States from 1989 to 1990822 AcrossReveal answer → A former name for influenza623 AcrossReveal answer → Soldier Soldier’s after material to suit824 AcrossReveal answer → Hebrew prophet persecuted for denouncing Ahab and Jezebel625 AcrossReveal answer → The original stream split and re-joined anew626 AcrossReveal answer → The immature fruit of any of various cucumbers after which the London building at 30 St Mary Axe is nicknamed727 AcrossReveal answer → Parsonage doesn’t need fires being lit for servant428 AcrossReveal answer → See 421529 AcrossReveal answer → Emaciated type of iridescent bird gobbling vegetable peel1030 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese cartoon films of which Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train is the highest-grossing example530 AcrossReveal answer → Bring news of some peripheral damage631 AcrossReveal answer → Area in London that is home to Portobello Road Market1131 AcrossReveal answer → See 11632 AcrossReveal answer → US poet of the Beat Generation who appears in the opening segment of D A Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back1333 AcrossReveal answer → Insect of the genus Calliphora, also called a bluebottle737 AcrossReveal answer → See 151238 AcrossReveal answer → A straight line that cuts a curve at one or more places639 AcrossReveal answer → Naiad who became one with Hermaphroditus in Ovid's Metamorphoses840 AcrossReveal answer → French underwater explorer who co-developed the aqualung and pioneered marine conservation1542 AcrossReveal answer → 1987 black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson1245 AcrossReveal answer → Small marine food fish of the herring family846 AcrossReveal answer → American rapper born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar in 1992649 AcrossReveal answer → 1994 Ang Lee film that received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film1651 AcrossReveal answer → 1980 Average White Band song that gave Louise a top ten hit in 19871652 AcrossReveal answer → A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters which cause itching and bleeding653 AcrossReveal answer →

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The seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar61 DownReveal answer → Well thought-out81 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Islamabad82 DownReveal answer → Journey north from Mexican river presumably without restraint72 DownReveal answer → Precise52 DownReveal answer → Attractive Amazonian women chasing short man about53 DownReveal answer → The art of compiling or drawing maps or charts113 DownReveal answer → Two times53 DownReveal answer → Develop better detailed limits to designs here74 DownReveal answer → Planet74 DownReveal answer → Canadian province with the largest population74 DownReveal answer → Way out45 DownReveal answer → Port in Brittany that is France's chief naval station55 DownReveal answer → Duck and orange starter served in upturned bowls55 DownReveal answer → Pester66 DownReveal answer → Linford ___, 1992 Olympic men's 100m champion86 DownReveal answer → Superficial problem of Belgian region (Belgium not France)76 DownReveal answer → American actress, director and screenwriter married to actor Cary Grant from 1965 to 1968107 DownReveal answer → Opposite to a 6, perhaps, on a clock face?37 DownReveal answer → American humorist whose short film How to Sleep won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Oscars148 DownReveal answer → To look after Old English poetry’s boring78 DownReveal answer → 1991 Lewis Gilbert film starring Liza Minnelli119 DownReveal answer → Tristan und ___, opera by Richard Wagner largely based on a romance by Gottfried von Strassburg610 DownReveal answer → Frightening810 DownReveal answer → Hazard to shipping712 DownReveal answer → Religious house613 DownReveal answer → 1970 US number one single for Edwin Starr313 DownReveal answer → Funny peculiar: 10cc eating a bit of minestrone513 DownReveal answer → Liquid measure515 DownReveal answer → Considering playing an extra shot to avoid wet spongy ground515 DownReveal answer → Allowance516 DownReveal answer → Strange spirit of small Scottish isle316 DownReveal answer → Inland body of water417 DownReveal answer → Athletic contest featuring swimming, cycling and running918 DownReveal answer → Mean to maintain a good posture, mostly failing719 DownReveal answer → Sail and rigging system used on sailboats, typically sloops619 DownReveal answer → Put together a service led without Latin720 DownReveal answer → Plant with unrelated greater and lesser varieties, Chelidonium majus and Ranunculus ficaria921 DownReveal answer → Warm cream coming thirdly on top of cold cream?722 DownReveal answer → Many island nations reflected green craze, but not Malta723 DownReveal answer → Another name for a calumet924 DownReveal answer → Rover spaceship Martians seize from below525 DownReveal answer → Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were a major factor in the Industrial Revolution926 DownReveal answer → Shelling eggs, including large and small in turn527 DownReveal answer → Belgian novelist who created the detective Maigret1427 DownReveal answer → The Japanese art of fencing528 DownReveal answer → When one's due in Greek hotel?329 DownReveal answer → Van ___, American actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Johnny Eager632 DownReveal answer → Market town in the Teignbridge District of Devon that has a racecourse1134 DownReveal answer → English comedian, TV presenter, singer and actor who won the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Musical Actor for Jolson1135 DownReveal answer → R M ___, Scottish author whose children's books include The Coral Island1037 DownReveal answer → Terry ___, Australian bowler who took 42 Test wickets, including nine on his debut, in the Ashes series in England in 1981841 DownReveal answer → French for fourteen843 DownReveal answer → An exceptionally hard mineral found in certain igneous rocks, especially the kimberlites of South Africa744 DownReveal answer → A small predatory mammal of the genus Mustela645 DownReveal answer → In Hinduism, social custom regarded as a religious and moral duty647 DownReveal answer → Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36548 DownReveal answer → British furniture retailer founded as Northern Upholstery in 1969350 DownReveal answer →

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