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The Independent Crossword October 10 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 55 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 10 2025 answers. The Friday puzzle has 55 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#
Attack set back during challenge with speedVITUPERATE10Across1 Ground wheatFLOUR5Across1 Underground roomCELLAR6Across4 Friend accepting university theologian's study?PAUL4Across6 Cannon or artilleryORDNANCE8Across7 GrumbleMOAN4Across8 IntricateCOMPLEX7Across9 Recalled popular German state…NIGER5Across10 …and German city: weapons a little evident in Germany today at the outsetDARMSTADT9Across11 Make voidANNUL5Across11 Immoderate document not initiated by engineersEXTREME7Across12 Gent with fake name turning and turning part of millSAILARM7Across13 LuxuriousOPULENT7Across13 Works on the land, where income’s stored a long timeTILLAGES8Across14 Old Queen imprisoning tense religious victimMARTYR6Across16 UmbilicusNAVEL5Across16 ProgressHEADWAY7Across17 Drain segment containing uraniumSLUICE6Across18 Prima donnaDIVA4Across19 Comic character, guy almost needing a crutchMALAPROP8Across19 SlaughterhouseABATTOIR8Across20 FeatureASPECT6Across22 Article is certain to omit American responsesANSWERS7Across22 AuspicesAEGIS5Across23 Dry river in the current territory completely emptiedTHIRSTY7Across23 Magnet in quantity and quality?LOADSTONE9Across25 Motivate arrangement of VerdiDRIVE5Across26 Prepare factory, but running out of timePLAN4Across27 Resolution in Hamlet?SETTLEMENT10Across28

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Litter of pigletsFARROW6Down1 Artist, familiarly, note, engaged in immorality, not without loveVINCENT7Down1 Drunk female escaping from the dark?TIGHT5Down2 PossessOWN3Down2 Here’s spaceman, floating about, consuming European dairy productPARMESANCHEESE14Down3 Second-placed competitorRUNNERUP8Down3 One saving crimson BMW, after front’s lostREDEEMER8Down4 Professional cookCHEF4Down4 Saint in a group turning up about religious educationTERESA6Down5 Covered with a thin protective layerLAMINATED9Down5 Counting frameABACUS6Down6 A GM flower, perhaps white and soft?ALABASTER9Down7 Oxford 16 the writer’s brought in subsequentlyLATIMER7Down8 Asia fast in dismantling scam? That’s healthyASFITASAFIDDLE14Down9 Seaside walkwayPROMENADE9Down10 Brown sugarDEMERARA8Down12 HydrophobiaRABIES6Down14 InfantsBABIES6Down15 Distribution of USA aioli around Northern US stateLOUISIANA9Down15 King tucking into drink, tucking into whisky, leading to harmMALTREAT8Down17 Compass pointEAST4Down18 Shellfish concession receiving visitSCALLOP7Down18 Unknown blokes coming in to touch for money?PAYMENT7Down20 Remains on rock, out of the oceanASHORE6Down21 LabelTAG3Down21 Occupy one zone within religious districtSEIZE5Down24

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, October 10, 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.