The Independent Crossword November 8 2025 Answers

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Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for November 8 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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Tavern31 AcrossReveal answer → Fed herb tea, settling down for the night101 AcrossReveal answer → Supported63 AcrossReveal answer → Hammer thrower nicked the gold46 AcrossReveal answer → Debatable48 AcrossReveal answer → Snack money primarily spent on credit109 AcrossReveal answer → Make less complicated89 AcrossReveal answer → Performer Sandra Bullock returns in part410 AcrossReveal answer → Crisp sweet biscuit1010 AcrossReveal answer → French Ligue 1 football club nicknamed Les Rouge-et-Bleu1712 AcrossReveal answer → Harsh612 AcrossReveal answer → Wannabe influencer girl on Love Island has one account following me1212 AcrossReveal answer → Wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books514 AcrossReveal answer → Turn down614 AcrossReveal answer → Lisbon-based Portuguese football club nicknamed As Águias (The Eagles)715 AcrossReveal answer → Way to preserve old copy for congressional record715 AcrossReveal answer → Spain's top footballer is one scoring openly716 AcrossReveal answer → Self-willed1016 AcrossReveal answer → Youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys in Shakespeare's As You Like It716 AcrossReveal answer → Gates and Elon struggling to deliver on newcomers to Twitter?717 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of ferns commonly known as cliff ferns717 AcrossReveal answer → Country which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with Diva by Dana International618 AcrossReveal answer → Unfaithful type at his wit's end taking pill719 AcrossReveal answer → They could catch you by the way1220 AcrossReveal answer → Historic building at 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, that was the first home of the Liberty Bell1620 AcrossReveal answer → Female lover820 AcrossReveal answer → Swag421 AcrossReveal answer → The most northerly of the Channel Islands822 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit dessert622 AcrossReveal answer → Novel by H Rider Haggard published in 1905 as a sequel to She623 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent323 AcrossReveal answer → Seconds from leaving alehouse, have another spirit423 AcrossReveal answer → Ron DeSantis about to axe new facility1024 AcrossReveal answer → Who's responsible for wedding row?425 AcrossReveal answer → Leader, with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain725 AcrossReveal answer → He's a deeply distressed person keen to retire1026 AcrossReveal answer → 1987 album and single by George Michael528 AcrossReveal answer → Technical name for the eardrum1629 AcrossReveal answer → Tablet launched by Apple Inc in 2013731 AcrossReveal answer → Football club founded as Dial Square in 1886733 AcrossReveal answer → Former state of NW India that became part of Rajasthan in 1947735 AcrossReveal answer → Coronation Street character played by Tina O'Brien1637 AcrossReveal answer → River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virus540 AcrossReveal answer → Ancient system of writing generally accepted as being an early representation of Mycenaean Greek742 AcrossReveal answer → Flying island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels643 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for ascorbic acid844 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Irving Fields and Jack Edwards, subtitled Where The Rum Come From, recorded by Edmundo Ros & His Rumba Band, Lord Messam & His Calypsonians, and others1646 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Greece649 AcrossReveal answer → Amelia ___, aviation pioneer who went missing during a flight in 1937751 AcrossReveal answer → Jan ___, Dutch painter who shared a studio with Rembrandt from about 1626 to 1631752 AcrossReveal answer → Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899753 AcrossReveal answer → Racecourse founded in 1711 by Queen Anne555 AcrossReveal answer → 1999 Fatboy Slim single that reached Number 2 in the UK1756 AcrossReveal answer →

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Family at first has trouble evacuating kids41 DownReveal answer → Jessica Simpson's first studio album following her divorce from Nick Lachey, released in 2006131 DownReveal answer → Worshipped image41 DownReveal answer → Notice welcoming church offered great service42 DownReveal answer → Russian politician who is the only pairs skater to have won ten successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals122 DownReveal answer → Remarkable72 DownReveal answer → Subtle design feature of Volkswagen dashboard123 DownReveal answer → Town in NW Italy famous for its sparkling wine43 DownReveal answer → Artist sketches endless daily struggle74 DownReveal answer → Container for cigars74 DownReveal answer → The capital of Senegal54 DownReveal answer → Prometheus ___, four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 182075 DownReveal answer → Mess exposed murder deeds75 DownReveal answer → Regulations55 DownReveal answer → Open resistance86 DownReveal answer → Metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive66 DownReveal answer → Continent47 DownReveal answer → Do I hang on lipreader? Hm, on head occasionally107 DownReveal answer → Conservative prime minister, 1957-63, who became 1st Earl of Stockton157 DownReveal answer → Redo, create anew!108 DownReveal answer → The North American euphorbiaceous plant Euphorbia marginata178 DownReveal answer → The second largest city in Pakistan69 DownReveal answer → Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne Elliot1010 DownReveal answer → Study of heredity811 DownReveal answer → Polonius and King Hamlet perhaps taste sweet1211 DownReveal answer → In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit as advocate or counsellor911 DownReveal answer → Idiots delighted about marks in test1013 DownReveal answer → 1975 David Bowie single that appeared on the Station to Station album the following year1113 DownReveal answer → Immoderate713 DownReveal answer → Overplay retro Jamaican music covers Kiss sampled1014 DownReveal answer → Neck vein715 DownReveal answer → Discourage517 DownReveal answer → Expel418 DownReveal answer → Outrage two of Georgia's neighbours, briefly718 DownReveal answer → Original name of the rock group Black Sabbath519 DownReveal answer → Alpha males upset by a single buttercup719 DownReveal answer → Stronghold419 DownReveal answer → Wilder for one pool party?421 DownReveal answer → Animated TV series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network in 19961721 DownReveal answer → Setter and solver and editor getting exhausted422 DownReveal answer → In Hinduism, the consort of Vishnu324 DownReveal answer → Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831526 DownReveal answer → Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I1527 DownReveal answer → 1987 film starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt1330 DownReveal answer → Port located in southwestern Jordan532 DownReveal answer → A white crystalline volatile solid used in mothballs and in the manufacture of dyes, explosives, etc1134 DownReveal answer → 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival1236 DownReveal answer → Jump-suited "skyrunner" of Channel 4's Treasure Hunt from 1983 to 19881038 DownReveal answer → Fluid transported in xylem cells or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant339 DownReveal answer → See 501040 DownReveal answer → 1957 top ten hit for Frank Sinatra, a song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from the film The Joker Is Wild941 DownReveal answer → Character in the Aeneid who participates in a trial of skill in which he shoots an arrow which then bursts into flames745 DownReveal answer → The second-highest ranking suit in bridge647 DownReveal answer → The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism648 DownReveal answer → English poet whose verse collections include No Fool like an Old Fool and The Young Pobble's Guide to His Toes1050 DownReveal answer → Friedrich ___, German mineralogist who gave his name to a hardness scale454 DownReveal answer →

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