The Independent Crossword October 18 2025 Answers

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Below are all 112 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 18 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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Social function41 AcrossReveal answer → Referee's aid wrong to overturn Honda's opener for Japan?71 AcrossReveal answer → Deceased43 AcrossReveal answer → Frame leader of cabal while relative smuggles heroin75 AcrossReveal answer → Notorious87 AcrossReveal answer → Look for48 AcrossReveal answer → Ground nest emu covers in sand - there's no other choice99 AcrossReveal answer → Excessive109 AcrossReveal answer → Combustible material around radiator's beginning to become orangey-pink510 AcrossReveal answer → Humiliating failure611 AcrossReveal answer → Rocket scientists run around cape for sport611 AcrossReveal answer → Discipline that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation1812 AcrossReveal answer → Violet bruise, extremely kinky?812 AcrossReveal answer → The supreme creator god in Norse mythology413 AcrossReveal answer → 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise, loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K Dick1414 AcrossReveal answer → Decreases in wine sales wiping out bodega in the end1014 AcrossReveal answer → Oscillate614 AcrossReveal answer → Daniel ___, Irish politician known as "The Liberator"815 AcrossReveal answer → Welcoming to guests1015 AcrossReveal answer → Game whose British and World Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, every year since 1932716 AcrossReveal answer → Cloud over coliseum is troubling crowds416 AcrossReveal answer → The western terminus for the District and Central lines on the London Underground1417 AcrossReveal answer → Crowd pleaser right not to get involved in outrageous comedy418 AcrossReveal answer → Diplomacy419 AcrossReveal answer → In cycling, the main field of riders in a road race719 AcrossReveal answer → Astrologer working with government welcomed by PM1019 AcrossReveal answer → Fast runner820 AcrossReveal answer → Giant monster or daikaiju who first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film of the same name821 AcrossReveal answer → Beloved421 AcrossReveal answer → Hot and dry river lacking locks?822 AcrossReveal answer → Domestic animals422 AcrossReveal answer → TV channel launched in April 1964623 AcrossReveal answer → Grounds for educating about politician in Australia623 AcrossReveal answer → Mammal of the genus Galictis also called a South American wolverine624 AcrossReveal answer → Influential 1963 book by James Baldwin containing two essays1525 AcrossReveal answer → 1989 Joe Dante film starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and Carrie Fisher826 AcrossReveal answer → Term for twenty-five pounds is pony?526 AcrossReveal answer → The 12th studio album by Elvis Costello and his first for Warner Brothers527 AcrossReveal answer → Submissiveness in bed liked regularly when edging927 AcrossReveal answer → Censors bloody shows728 AcrossReveal answer → 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen whose central character's surname is Tesman1129 AcrossReveal answer → Wrestling gear itches with skirt the wrong way round729 AcrossReveal answer → The state capital of Oregon531 AcrossReveal answer → The capital and chief port of Bermuda833 AcrossReveal answer → Detective created by Georges Simenon735 AcrossReveal answer → Twin brother of Artemis in classical mythology636 AcrossReveal answer → First name of the writer who was a sibling of Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell638 AcrossReveal answer → See 251539 AcrossReveal answer → A white crystalline monosaccharide sugar that has several optically active forms740 AcrossReveal answer → Furniture item designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 19291441 AcrossReveal answer → Sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf whose capital is Manama743 AcrossReveal answer → First name of the Larkin played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the TV series The Darling Buds of May845 AcrossReveal answer → American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts1447 AcrossReveal answer → Snowman in the 2013 Disney film Frozen voiced by Josh Gad449 AcrossReveal answer → Director of the Government Accountability Office, the agency founded in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the US federal government1850 AcrossReveal answer →

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Very deep bottles start to tempt one into wine71 DownReveal answer → Latin name for the onion genus61 DownReveal answer → Affability81 DownReveal answer → Rocks fish is found under, right?52 DownReveal answer → 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical featuring the song Glad to Be Unhappy102 DownReveal answer → Depart52 DownReveal answer → Example of an insect on the rocks83 DownReveal answer → Gaeltacht village in County Mayo, Ireland, whose Gaelic name is Gob an Choire113 DownReveal answer → Undress73 DownReveal answer → Several44 DownReveal answer → Transport goods in adverse weather, imports primarily going to university44 DownReveal answer → Association of London underwriters set up in the late 17th century64 DownReveal answer → Boxing contest45 DownReveal answer → ___ Squalor, girlfriend of Count "49 Across" in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events stories45 DownReveal answer → Lacking time, reconstruct carelessly?105 DownReveal answer → Opening track of Supertramp's 1974 album Crime of the Century66 DownReveal answer → Evaluate66 DownReveal answer → More playful shot66 DownReveal answer → The second studio album by Babes in Toyland, released in 1992107 DownReveal answer → Stone coming down and breaking your back97 DownReveal answer → Directed to take in boxer striking78 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Bogotá88 DownReveal answer → The third largest toy company in the United States when it was bought by Mattel in 199749 DownReveal answer → Cosgrove Hall animated TV series that was a spin-off from Danger Mouse, also featuring the voice of David Jason in the title role1210 DownReveal answer → Negligent810 DownReveal answer → Anglican clergyman after whom the Rugby World Cup is named1611 DownReveal answer → Vehicle712 DownReveal answer → Resist613 DownReveal answer → At the end, on top of hill, boarding fell1013 DownReveal answer → Canine companion to deliberately avoid being cuddled by father915 DownReveal answer → Academic year division416 DownReveal answer → City in Sudan at which the Mahdi defeated a British and Egyptian army in 1883717 DownReveal answer → System of symbols not helping - translator ultimately let go817 DownReveal answer → Overindulge517 DownReveal answer → Hairdresser to stand up cutting hair718 DownReveal answer → A fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game that was the first card game in which a trump suit was established by bidding518 DownReveal answer → Food fish418 DownReveal answer → I admire that muscle clenched by others720 DownReveal answer → The bird Haliaetus albicilla, also called an erne1620 DownReveal answer → Bitter ale in cellar initially probed by detectives621 DownReveal answer → The intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies the culture of a particular period in time922 DownReveal answer → Parking on raised road constituting a fine524 DownReveal answer → Generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood525 DownReveal answer → Shorter exercise needing no working425 DownReveal answer → The chief river of the Midlands526 DownReveal answer → English rock band whose hit singles include I Predict A Riot and Ruby1228 DownReveal answer → Character in The Lord of the Rings who was the elder son of Denethor II, the last ruling Steward of Gondor730 DownReveal answer → The state capital of Florida1132 DownReveal answer → French multinational integrated oil and gas company founded in 1924 as the Compagnie française des pétroles534 DownReveal answer → Venue for the 1968 Olympic Games1035 DownReveal answer → 1965 film starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret and Jack Palance1037 DownReveal answer → District of London that includes Battersea Power Station and the New Covent Garden Market839 DownReveal answer → The largest river in the world by volume642 DownReveal answer → Transparent brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling the soot of wood, used for pen and wash drawings643 DownReveal answer → The large Indian antelope Boselaphus tragocamelus644 DownReveal answer → Society founded by the Reverend Tubby Clayton in 1919446 DownReveal answer → Scottish singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 with Boom Bang-a-Bang448 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, October 18, 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.