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The Independent Crossword November 5 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 5 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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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Discerning kissing and petting?91 AcrossReveal answer → Ooze41 AcrossReveal answer → Writing fluid33 AcrossReveal answer → Communication system for partners screened by Coca-Cola46 AcrossReveal answer → Run quickly, then fall, producing sign of distress88 AcrossReveal answer → Around58 AcrossReveal answer → Worship79 AcrossReveal answer → Excited to be back, posh boy discouraged69 AcrossReveal answer → For the most part710 AcrossReveal answer → Writer is the first person in Paris and its Italian equivalent610 AcrossReveal answer → Composure511 AcrossReveal answer → Bad omens from rector in powerful sermon's introduction811 AcrossReveal answer → At once1112 AcrossReveal answer → Sustenance rejected by American idiot612 AcrossReveal answer → Put into different part of hospital and remunerated?815 AcrossReveal answer → Caught venomous snake and established Australian city816 AcrossReveal answer → Cognisant517 AcrossReveal answer → Compete with me for cluster of flowers619 AcrossReveal answer → Atone for719 AcrossReveal answer → Sweet-smelling old woman blocks men-only group from over the pond821 AcrossReveal answer → Obscure721 AcrossReveal answer → Reportedly spot one's flat under water622 AcrossReveal answer → Tolerate522 AcrossReveal answer → Affirmative answer323 AcrossReveal answer → Spectre of violent anger covering Italy624 AcrossReveal answer → Biting fly424 AcrossReveal answer → Everybody in church welcomes a marriage825 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis trailblazer remains on the phone426 AcrossReveal answer → Is often confused with regard to light927 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Reaping-hook61 DownReveal answer → Oddly, may very well cut short nonsense51 DownReveal answer → Mistake52 DownReveal answer → Lark around with rancid Boris, perhaps72 DownReveal answer → First73 DownReveal answer → Language from north or south Spain53 DownReveal answer → Working copy contained in press release, theoretically74 DownReveal answer → Custodian64 DownReveal answer → High quality portrait artist?95 DownReveal answer → Flower cluster65 DownReveal answer → Can't be arsed keeping aardvark76 DownReveal answer → Cowardly116 DownReveal answer → Renovate (Informal)47 DownReveal answer → Soft frame broken and inoperative97 DownReveal answer → Infectious disease713 DownReveal answer → Briefly made errors performing military instruction913 DownReveal answer → Formal headwear item614 DownReveal answer → Trip in motor car is painful for Greens914 DownReveal answer → Recently615 DownReveal answer → Feel bitter at616 DownReveal answer → Fish with appendages for walking on717 DownReveal answer → Passage from additional court718 DownReveal answer → Catch sight of418 DownReveal answer → Man visiting India for local bread720 DownReveal answer → Foreign520 DownReveal answer → Grumpy Londoner hides artificial leg522 DownReveal answer → Announced change is in store523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, November 5, 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.