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The Independent Crossword October 2 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 56 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 2 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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Continue performing after horror novel's recited71 AcrossReveal answer → Badger's burrow41 AcrossReveal answer → Just outside the medals64 AcrossReveal answer → Artificial gin drunk at Glastonbury?75 AcrossReveal answer → Imply77 AcrossReveal answer → Visually displeasing48 AcrossReveal answer → Using short words129 AcrossReveal answer → Get fruit via supermarket loyalty scheme in mid-September99 AcrossReveal answer → Delicious warm doughnut disappears510 AcrossReveal answer → Substance found in delicatessen - celery?711 AcrossReveal answer → Mourn611 AcrossReveal answer → Loosen pants having consumed 500 items from a Chinese takeaway712 AcrossReveal answer → Slow musical movement613 AcrossReveal answer → Business contractors freely inspect empty rooms around hotel1014 AcrossReveal answer → Benny's cool, not cold416 AcrossReveal answer → Written thesis1216 AcrossReveal answer → The Independent's programme to shun extremists418 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity419 AcrossReveal answer → Naked goblin queen departs gingerly, without complaint1019 AcrossReveal answer → Captain720 AcrossReveal answer → Notoriety621 AcrossReveal answer → Strong wind422 AcrossReveal answer → Deal, perhaps, with the spreading of disease723 AcrossReveal answer → Beat up around 50 Salvation Army leaders from Teddington and Ealing724 AcrossReveal answer → Diminished, a knight, at last, is resting526 AcrossReveal answer → How we wish others were here to edit podcasts about nude art927 AcrossReveal answer → Journalist joining small people in boat getting fixed728 AcrossReveal answer → Graduate performer in hospital, sick, leaving worker to deal with the rubbish729 AcrossReveal answer →

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Things given up when renouncing Catholic fellow admitted111 DownReveal answer → Encourage52 DownReveal answer → Strains of seaweeds with leaves52 DownReveal answer → Head of Yamaha making money - yen?83 DownReveal answer → Crime against the state73 DownReveal answer → Pointless64 DownReveal answer → Extremely green water coming up street74 DownReveal answer → Soft palate extension55 DownReveal answer → C-lister in rehab?75 DownReveal answer → Revealing76 DownReveal answer → Old lady, finally affluent, or elevated leader among nurses?66 DownReveal answer → Uncomplicated67 DownReveal answer → Rude novel's opening linguist translated97 DownReveal answer → In high spirits, Gary Lineker finally comes out38 DownReveal answer → Woodworker610 DownReveal answer → Make damp712 DownReveal answer → Second review of Lassie? Only when there's nothing serious to report1113 DownReveal answer → Sketch714 DownReveal answer → Macabre615 DownReveal answer → Foregathered mobs renouncing God and heaven?915 DownReveal answer → Middle Eastern country517 DownReveal answer → Idiots slip up outside bar817 DownReveal answer → Urge518 DownReveal answer → Part of questionable EP edited/censored720 DownReveal answer → Plausible statement from model getting charged721 DownReveal answer → Opening punch in the stomach that hurts622 DownReveal answer → A burger, but hold the filling - Bluebird's full525 DownReveal answer → Coach that's kaput - its back-end's come off326 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, October 2, 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.