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The Independent Crossword October 22 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 57 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 22 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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Bad actor with a job runs away in Berkshire town91 AcrossReveal answer → Studied41 AcrossReveal answer → High-pitched sound53 AcrossReveal answer → Sit, or run, or do neither?56 AcrossReveal answer → Beverage67 AcrossReveal answer → Not tough68 AcrossReveal answer → Gentle49 AcrossReveal answer → A bitter crook's ceremonial hat79 AcrossReveal answer → Most loved director committed to cast Johansson at last710 AcrossReveal answer → Dietary fibre810 AcrossReveal answer → Surprisingly anal about temperature of buttocks511 AcrossReveal answer → Caller712 AcrossReveal answer → Dispense with photograph913 AcrossReveal answer → Is not wearing correct waterproof914 AcrossReveal answer → Wary816 AcrossReveal answer → Demoralising nursing examination416 AcrossReveal answer → Reversed change in flow418 AcrossReveal answer → Petty squabble418 AcrossReveal answer → Haggled, as pub profited919 AcrossReveal answer → Horrified619 AcrossReveal answer → Sum621 AcrossReveal answer → Wander away522 AcrossReveal answer → Sham environmental concern used to be embraced by naive husband922 AcrossReveal answer → Tax423 AcrossReveal answer → Fish in river caught by Ray524 AcrossReveal answer → Extravagantly celebrate extensive sex725 AcrossReveal answer → Land of river turtle quietly destroyed726 AcrossReveal answer → Bit of wind restricts European visitor528 AcrossReveal answer → Puts down extremely rare printers929 AcrossReveal answer →

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Callow recruit61 DownReveal answer → We sacrifice a rook in online broadcast71 DownReveal answer → Cocktail in Scottish church unfinished32 DownReveal answer → Legal declaration on oath92 DownReveal answer → Settle on unfolding folded cards83 DownReveal answer → Diver's garment73 DownReveal answer → Chinese flower displayed around centre of Doncaster54 DownReveal answer → Charged atom34 DownReveal answer → Umpire taking time; a deep thinker95 DownReveal answer → Come out65 DownReveal answer → Southern women are on the cover66 DownReveal answer → Low dam46 DownReveal answer → Russia's codename for Trump? It's bad news for him if he's a plant!117 DownReveal answer → Redistributed fluid across Utah, being conscientious78 DownReveal answer → Astrological prediction911 DownReveal answer → Interrogation in PhD, for some?1112 DownReveal answer → Soon713 DownReveal answer → Scottish dish614 DownReveal answer → Delicate615 DownReveal answer → Castrated cat with bit of rubber on communion table in place of monkeys915 DownReveal answer → Bathe417 DownReveal answer → Celebration of someone who goes on about conserving earth?817 DownReveal answer → Uninvited, follow liberating northern Filipino718 DownReveal answer → Ventilate320 DownReveal answer → God to achieve less720 DownReveal answer → University rector stopping home creates trouble621 DownReveal answer → Characters found in the middle of Whitehall, flustered523 DownReveal answer → Scratch head of young female donkey327 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, October 22, 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.