The Independent Crossword October 11 2025 Answers

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Below are all 113 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 11 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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Distort41 AcrossReveal answer → City transit protector's back half not opening when twisted71 AcrossReveal answer → Assumed a resting position43 AcrossReveal answer → Took a shot, weapon almost being dead75 AcrossReveal answer → Like better67 AcrossReveal answer → Deed68 AcrossReveal answer → Russian's certainly left-wing, with wicked alter ego99 AcrossReveal answer → At all109 AcrossReveal answer → Complete set of countries pressing to drop borders510 AcrossReveal answer → Health centre611 AcrossReveal answer → Both sides of strategy for Alexander511 AcrossReveal answer → 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith whose central character is Dr Primrose1912 AcrossReveal answer → Pares back - not as much as 1A resident?912 AcrossReveal answer → Frightened613 AcrossReveal answer → 1882 play by Victorien Sardou that gave its name to a hat613 AcrossReveal answer → Tiger cub selected for shaving struggles and leaves1413 AcrossReveal answer → See 351114 AcrossReveal answer → Worn out1015 AcrossReveal answer → 1666 play by Molière whose central character is Alceste1316 AcrossReveal answer → See 121917 AcrossReveal answer → Musician who played with Grieg's genre1418 AcrossReveal answer → Rabindranath ___, Indian poet and philosopher who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913618 AcrossReveal answer → The 23rd president of the United States1619 AcrossReveal answer → Arrogance619 AcrossReveal answer → Mood of soft stringed instrument reflected a new church920 AcrossReveal answer → Peak620 AcrossReveal answer → Il ___, 15th-century mural by Leonardo da Vinci also known as The Last Supper821 AcrossReveal answer → Destiny421 AcrossReveal answer → Every422 AcrossReveal answer → The Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that started at the end of 1987823 AcrossReveal answer → Low-budget festival recalled after happening523 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly, a provincial governor or other high official of the Ottoman Empire or the modern Egyptian kingdom525 AcrossReveal answer → Warning of red room missed by companion525 AcrossReveal answer → Intelligence and super-intelligence Republican's taken from historical period926 AcrossReveal answer → Real first name of the late actor Kirk Douglas527 AcrossReveal answer → E.g. tin soldiers in revolutionary set727 AcrossReveal answer → Odds certainly shortened without fighting Trojan horse?728 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 film starring Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine1728 AcrossReveal answer → The second largest London borough by population631 AcrossReveal answer → Former Luton Town, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur centre forward who is now a pundit933 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh entertainer and actress for whom Noël Coward created the part of Ada Cockle in his 1963 Broadway musical The Girl Who Came to Supper1135 AcrossReveal answer → Tokyo-born actress who was the older sister of Joan Fontaine1738 AcrossReveal answer → Rapper and toaster formerly in UB40 born Terence Wilson540 AcrossReveal answer → Series of computer games set in the fictional nation of Albion created by Peter Molyneux542 AcrossReveal answer → American political movement that emerged from Ron Paul's 2008 presidential primary campaign843 AcrossReveal answer → Mieczyslaw ___, Warsaw-born composer and pianist whose works include the symphonic trilogy Having Crossed the Threshold of War845 AcrossReveal answer → David Lean film that won seven Oscars, including Best Picture1647 AcrossReveal answer → Major South Korean car manufacturer declared bankrupt in 1999650 AcrossReveal answer → Marvel Comics superhero, alter ego of Matt Murdock, who first appeared in 1964953 AcrossReveal answer → 2001 top ten single by Gorillaz1354 AcrossReveal answer → Left tributary of the river Moselle that rises near Vaux-sur-Sûre in southeastern Belgium555 AcrossReveal answer → Ray ___, actor who played Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas656 AcrossReveal answer → Town in Gloucestershire at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon1057 AcrossReveal answer →

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Cruel fact: you need to get rid of tattoo for promotion81 DownReveal answer → Spanish football club known as Los Leones141 DownReveal answer → Lycanthrope81 DownReveal answer → An old hand inhabits stage part52 DownReveal answer → Ancient Athenian philosopher who was the son of Hipponicus and brother of Callias102 DownReveal answer → Chorus72 DownReveal answer → Picnic-goer rearranged derby date93 DownReveal answer → 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac63 DownReveal answer → Liquid measure53 DownReveal answer → US state whose capital is Augusta54 DownReveal answer → Hip neighbour shunning lead singer54 DownReveal answer → Golf club44 DownReveal answer → Weapons45 DownReveal answer → Spiral tube that forms part of the internal ear and converts sound vibrations into nerve impulses75 DownReveal answer → Information about hackneyed detective movie95 DownReveal answer → Identity documents66 DownReveal answer → Stock online joke?56 DownReveal answer → Ancient Latin hymn from a canticle that begins with words meaning "Thee, God, we praise"66 DownReveal answer → Afraid to bring up a bully who's beyond reproach97 DownReveal answer → English comedy actress, writer and producer who provides voices for "45 Across"137 DownReveal answer → Civilian occupation of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army118 DownReveal answer → T S Eliot ignoring content editor's rising hate68 DownReveal answer → A loudspeaker used for the reproduction of low audio frequencies69 DownReveal answer → Febrile810 DownReveal answer → Play by Anton Chekhov first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre1210 DownReveal answer → The second-largest island in the Mediterranean811 DownReveal answer → Dairy product612 DownReveal answer → Fit to choose the Spanish city lodge914 DownReveal answer → Blood deficiency714 DownReveal answer → Karate achievement that you can't build on?915 DownReveal answer → Familiar name for the company whose flagship publication is The Wall Street Journal815 DownReveal answer → One's working with you, at first, to undermine trial evidence916 DownReveal answer → Vast crowd516 DownReveal answer → Crockery item417 DownReveal answer → Go before disrupting leadership of Anthony Eden etc.817 DownReveal answer → Brass instrument418 DownReveal answer → Number one did shift after work619 DownReveal answer → Greek philosopher who taught Aristotle and was a friend of "2 Down"520 DownReveal answer → Big city about to host golf521 DownReveal answer → Member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154, also known as a White Friar922 DownReveal answer → Shows part of Sussex positively522 DownReveal answer → Latin word used in textual annotation meaning lower down on the page or further on in the book524 DownReveal answer → A nymph from the underworld avoiding a goddess524 DownReveal answer → 2000 top ten single by Moby925 DownReveal answer → City in Northern Ireland with Roman Catholic and Protestant archbishops626 DownReveal answer → The capital of the Bahamas629 DownReveal answer → 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler featuring detective Philip Marlowe1430 DownReveal answer → The freshwater fish Salmo gairdneri1232 DownReveal answer → Wife of the Roman emperor Augustus and mother of Tiberius534 DownReveal answer → English nurse executed by the Germans in World War I for helping Allied prisoners to escape1136 DownReveal answer → The common viper Vipera berus537 DownReveal answer → A seducer in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 tragedy The Fair Penitent839 DownReveal answer → ITV comedy series that starred Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley1041 DownReveal answer → Legal term for suicide842 DownReveal answer → The destroyer, a name given to the Devil in the Book of Revelation844 DownReveal answer → Suburb of Liverpool that is the site of the racecourse over which the Grand National has been run since 1839746 DownReveal answer → Pat ___, former jockey who rode the Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame648 DownReveal answer → Louisa May ___, US novelist best known for Little Women649 DownReveal answer → Neurodevelopmental disorder linked to Tylenol by Donald Trump in 2025651 DownReveal answer → See 71352 DownReveal answer →

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