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The Independent Crossword November 8 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 109 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword November 8 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 109 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#
TavernINN3Across1 Fed herb tea, settling down for the nightFEATHERBED10Across1 SupportedSHORED6Across3 Hammer thrower nicked the goldTHOR4Across6 DebatableMOOT4Across8 Snack money primarily spent on creditBREADSTICK10Across9 Make less complicatedSIMPLIFY8Across9 Performer Sandra Bullock returns in partBARD4Across10 Crisp sweet biscuitBRANDYSNAP10Across10 French Ligue 1 football club nicknamed Les Rouge-et-BleuPARISSAINTGERMAIN17Across12 HarshSEVERE6Across12 Wannabe influencer girl on Love Island has one account following meMEGALOMANIAC12Across12 Wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle BooksAKELA5Across14 Turn downREJECT6Across14 Lisbon-based Portuguese football club nicknamed As Águias (The Eagles)BENFICA7Across15 Way to preserve old copy for congressional recordSEXTAPE7Across15 Spain's top footballer is one scoring openlySWINGER7Across16 Self-willedHEADSTRONG10Across16 Youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys in Shakespeare's As You Like ItORLANDO7Across16 Gates and Elon struggling to deliver on newcomers to Twitter?EAGLETS7Across17 Genus of ferns commonly known as cliff fernsWOODSIA7Across17 Country which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with Diva by Dana InternationalISRAEL6Across18 Unfaithful type at his wit's end taking pillATHEIST7Across19 They could catch you by the waySPEEDCAMERAS12Across20 Historic building at 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, that was the first home of the Liberty BellINDEPENDENCEHALL16Across20 Female loverMISTRESS8Across20 SwagLOOT4Across21 The most northerly of the Channel IslandsALDERNEY8Across22 Fruit dessertSORBET6Across22 Novel by H Rider Haggard published in 1905 as a sequel to SheAYESHA6Across23 RodentRAT3Across23 Seconds from leaving alehouse, have another spiritELAN4Across23 Ron DeSantis about to axe new facilityADROITNESS10Across24 Who's responsible for wedding row?TIER4Across25 Leader, with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in BritainHENGIST7Across25 He's a deeply distressed person keen to retireSLEEPYHEAD10Across26 1987 album and single by George MichaelFAITH5Across28 Technical name for the eardrumTYMPANICMEMBRANE16Across29 Tablet launched by Apple Inc in 2013IPADAIR7Across31 Football club founded as Dial Square in 1886ARSENAL7Across33 Former state of NW India that became part of Rajasthan in 1947UDAIPUR7Across35 Coronation Street character played by Tina O'BrienSARAHLOUISEPLATT16Across37 River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virusEBOLA5Across40 Ancient system of writing generally accepted as being an early representation of Mycenaean GreekLINEARB7Across42 Flying island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsLAPUTA6Across43 Another name for ascorbic acidVITAMINC8Across44 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 othersTAKEHERTOJAMAICA16Across46 The capital of GreeceATHENS6Across49 Amelia ___, aviation pioneer who went missing during a flight in 1937EARHART7Across51 Jan ___, Dutch painter who shared a studio with Rembrandt from about 1626 to 1631LIEVENS7Across52 Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899ACMILAN7Across53 Racecourse founded in 1711 by Queen AnneASCOT5Across55 1999 Fatboy Slim single that reached Number 2 in the UKRIGHTHERERIGHTNOW17Across56

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Family at first has trouble evacuating kidsFIBS4Down1 Jessica Simpson's first studio album following her divorce from Nick Lachey, released in 2006APUBLICAFFAIR13Down1 Worshipped imageIDOL4Down1 Notice welcoming church offered great serviceACED4Down2 Russian politician who is the only pairs skater to have won ten successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medalsIRINARODNINA12Down2 RemarkableNOTABLE7Down2 Subtle design feature of Volkswagen dashboardHIDDENAGENDA12Down3 Town in NW Italy famous for its sparkling wineASTI4Down3 Artist sketches endless daily struggleRATRACE7Down4 Container for cigarsHUMIDOR7Down4 The capital of SenegalDAKAR5Down4 Prometheus ___, four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820UNBOUND7Down5 Mess exposed murder deedsESCROWS7Down5 RegulationsRULES5Down5 Open resistanceDEFIANCE8Down6 Metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additiveBRONZE6Down6 ContinentASIA4Down7 Do I hang on lipreader? Hm, on head occasionallyHEARINGAID10Down7 Conservative prime minister, 1957-63, who became 1st Earl of StocktonHAROLDMACMILLAN15Down7 Redo, create anew!REDECORATE10Down8 The North American euphorbiaceous plant Euphorbia marginataSNOWONTHEMOUNTAIN17Down8 The second largest city in PakistanLAHORE6Down9 Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne ElliotPERSUASION10Down10 Study of heredityGENETICS8Down11 Polonius and King Hamlet perhaps taste sweetDANISHPASTRY12Down11 In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit as advocate or counsellorPARACLETE9Down11 Idiots delighted about marks in testASSESSMENT10Down13 1975 David Bowie single that appeared on the Station to Station album the following yearGOLDENYEARS11Down13 ImmoderateEXTREME7Down13 Overplay retro Jamaican music covers Kiss sampledEXAGGERATE10Down14 Neck veinJUGULAR7Down15 DiscourageDETER5Down17 ExpelOUST4Down18 Outrage two of Georgia's neighbours, brieflySCANDAL7Down18 Original name of the rock group Black SabbathEARTH5Down19 Alpha males upset by a single buttercupANEMONE7Down19 StrongholdFORT4Down19 Wilder for one pool party?GENE4Down21 Animated TV series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network in 1996DEXTERSLABORATORY17Down21 Setter and solver and editor getting exhaustedUSED4Down22 In Hinduism, the consort of VishnuSRI3Down24 Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831NORMA5Down26 Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth IEMMANUELCOLLEGE15Down27 1987 film starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William HurtBROADCASTNEWS13Down30 Port located in southwestern JordanAQABA5Down32 A white crystalline volatile solid used in mothballs and in the manufacture of dyes, explosives, etcNAPHTHALENE11Down34 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film FestivalPROMISEDLAND12Down36 Jump-suited "skyrunner" of Channel 4's Treasure Hunt from 1983 to 1988ANNEKARICE10Down38 Fluid transported in xylem cells or phloem sieve tube elements of a plantSAP3Down39 See 50GAVINEWART10Down40 1957 top ten hit for Frank Sinatra, a song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from the film The Joker Is WildALLTHEWAY9Down41 Character in the Aeneid who participates in a trial of skill in which he shoots an arrow which then bursts into flamesACESTES7Down45 The second-highest ranking suit in bridgeHEARTS6Down47 The primary collection of sacred texts of ZoroastrianismAVESTA6Down48 English poet whose verse collections include No Fool like an Old Fool and The Young Pobble's Guide to His ToesGAVINEWART10Down50 Friedrich ___, German mineralogist who gave his name to a hardness scaleMOHS4Down54

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, November 8, 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.