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The Independent Crossword October 18 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 112 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 18 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 112 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#
Social functionBALL4Across1 Referee's aid wrong to overturn Honda's opener for Japan?VARNISH7Across1 DeceasedDEAD4Across3 Frame leader of cabal while relative smuggles heroinCHASSIS7Across5 NotoriousINFAMOUS8Across7 Look forSEEK4Across8 Ground nest emu covers in sand - there's no other choiceNEEDSMUST9Across9 ExcessiveOVERTHETOP10Across9 Combustible material around radiator's beginning to become orangey-pinkCORAL5Across10 Humiliating failureFIASCO6Across11 Rocket scientists run around cape for sportNASCAR6Across11 Discipline that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardationCLINICALPSYCHOLOGY18Across12 Violet bruise, extremely kinky?LOVEBITE8Across12 The supreme creator god in Norse mythologyODIN4Across13 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise, loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K DickMINORITYREPORT14Across14 Decreases in wine sales wiping out bodega in the endREDUCTIONS10Across14 OscillateSEESAW6Across14 Daniel ___, Irish politician known as "The Liberator"OCONNELL8Across15 Welcoming to guestsHOSPITABLE10Across15 Game whose British and World Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, every year since 1932MARBLES7Across16 Cloud over coliseum is troubling crowdsMIST4Across16 The western terminus for the District and Central lines on the London UndergroundEALINGBROADWAY14Across17 Crowd pleaser right not to get involved in outrageous comedyFACE4Across18 DiplomacyTACT4Across19 In cycling, the main field of riders in a road racePELOTON7Across19 Astrologer working with government welcomed by PMSTARMONGER10Across19 Fast runnerSPRINTER8Across20 Giant monster or daikaiju who first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film of the same nameGODZILLA8Across21 BelovedDEAR4Across21 Hot and dry river lacking locks?INSECURE8Across22 Domestic animalsPETS4Across22 TV channel launched in April 1964BBCTWO6Across23 Grounds for educating about politician in AustraliaCAMPUS6Across23 Mammal of the genus Galictis also called a South American wolverineGRISON6Across24 Influential 1963 book by James Baldwin containing two essaysTHEFIRENEXTTIME15Across25 1989 Joe Dante film starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and Carrie FisherTHEBURBS8Across26 Term for twenty-five pounds is pony?EQUID5Across26 The 12th studio album by Elvis Costello and his first for Warner BrothersSPIKE5Across27 Submissiveness in bed liked regularly when edgingOBEDIENCE9Across27 Censors bloody showsREDACTS7Across28 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen whose central character's surname is TesmanHEDDAGABLER11Across29 Wrestling gear itches with skirt the wrong way roundSINGLET7Across29 The state capital of OregonSALEM5Across31 The capital and chief port of BermudaHAMILTON8Across33 Detective created by Georges SimenonMAIGRET7Across35 Twin brother of Artemis in classical mythologyAPOLLO6Across36 First name of the writer who was a sibling of Edith and Sacheverell SitwellOSBERT6Across38 See 25THEFIRENEXTTIME15Across39 A white crystalline monosaccharide sugar that has several optically active formsGLUCOSE7Across40 Furniture item designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 1929BARCELONACHAIR14Across41 Sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf whose capital is ManamaBAHRAIN7Across43 First name of the Larkin played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the TV series The Darling Buds of MayMARIETTE8Across45 American cartoonist best known for the comic strip PeanutsCHARLESMSCHULZ14Across47 Snowman in the 2013 Disney film Frozen voiced by Josh GadOLAF4Across49 Director of the Government Accountability Office, the agency founded in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the US federal governmentCOMPTROLLERGENERAL18Across50

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Very deep bottles start to tempt one into wineVINTNER7Down1 Latin name for the onion genusALLIUM6Down1 AffabilityBONHOMIE8Down1 Rocks fish is found under, right?REELS5Down2 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical featuring the song Glad to Be UnhappyONYOURTOES10Down2 DepartLEAVE5Down2 Example of an insect on the rocksINSTANCE8Down3 Gaeltacht village in County Mayo, Ireland, whose Gaelic name is Gob an ChoireACHILLSOUND11Down3 UndressDISROBE7Down3 SeveralAFEW4Down4 Transport goods in adverse weather, imports primarily going to universityHAUL4Down4 Association of London underwriters set up in the late 17th centuryLLOYDS6Down4 Boxing contestBOUT4Down5 ___ Squalor, girlfriend of Count "49 Across" in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events storiesESME4Down5 Lacking time, reconstruct carelessly?CUTCORNERS10Down5 Opening track of Supertramp's 1974 album Crime of the CenturySCHOOL6Down6 EvaluateASSESS6Down6 More playful shotARCHER6Down6 The second studio album by Babes in Toyland, released in 1992FONTANELLE10Down7 Stone coming down and breaking your backSTRAINING9Down7 Directed to take in boxer strikingSALIENT7Down8 Country whose capital is BogotáCOLOMBIA8Down8 The third largest toy company in the United States when it was bought by Mattel in 1997TYCO4Down9 Cosgrove Hall animated TV series that was a spin-off from Danger Mouse, also featuring the voice of David Jason in the title roleCOUNTDUCKULA12Down10 NegligentCARELESS8Down10 Anglican clergyman after whom the Rugby World Cup is namedWILLIAMWEBBELLIS16Down11 VehicleSCOOTER7Down12 ResistOPPOSE6Down13 At the end, on top of hill, boarding fellVICTORIOUS10Down13 Canine companion to deliberately avoid being cuddled by fatherDACHSHUND9Down15 Academic year divisionTERM4Down16 City in Sudan at which the Mahdi defeated a British and Egyptian army in 1883ELOBEID7Down17 System of symbols not helping - translator ultimately let goNOTATION8Down17 OverindulgeBINGE5Down17 Hairdresser to stand up cutting hairFRISEUR7Down18 A fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game that was the first card game in which a trump suit was established by biddingOMBRE5Down18 Food fishHAKE4Down18 I admire that muscle clenched by othersRESPECT7Down20 The bird Haliaetus albicilla, also called an erneEUROPEANSEAEAGLE16Down20 Bitter ale in cellar initially probed by detectivesACIDIC6Down21 The intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies the culture of a particular period in timeZEITGEIST9Down22 Parking on raised road constituting a finePENAL5Down24 Generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of woodTREEN5Down25 Shorter exercise needing no workingLESS4Down25 The chief river of the MidlandsTRENT5Down26 English rock band whose hit singles include I Predict A Riot and RubyKAISERCHIEFS12Down28 Character in The Lord of the Rings who was the elder son of Denethor II, the last ruling Steward of GondorBOROMIR7Down30 The state capital of FloridaTALLAHASSEE11Down32 French multinational integrated oil and gas company founded in 1924 as the Compagnie française des pétrolesTOTAL5Down34 Venue for the 1968 Olympic GamesMEXICOCITY10Down35 1965 film starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret and Jack PalanceONCEATHIEF10Down37 District of London that includes Battersea Power Station and the New Covent Garden MarketNINEELMS8Down39 The largest river in the world by volumeAMAZON6Down42 Transparent brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling the soot of wood, used for pen and wash drawingsBISTRE6Down43 The large Indian antelope Boselaphus tragocamelusNILGAI6Down44 Society founded by the Reverend Tubby Clayton in 1919TOCH4Down46 Scottish singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 with Boom Bang-a-BangLULU4Down48

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