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The Independent Crossword October 23 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 58 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 58 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 23 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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Inscribed tablet61 AcrossReveal answer → Despise44 AcrossReveal answer → Metallic element98 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit seed39 AcrossReveal answer → Senseless how burlesque ends59 AcrossReveal answer → Cut up and examine710 AcrossReveal answer → Explosive material about creativity sincere910 AcrossReveal answer → Rot511 AcrossReveal answer → Crouchback for one thrown in road by king911 AcrossReveal answer → Mischievous duo taking female out for drive512 AcrossReveal answer → Fortune teller's globe1112 AcrossReveal answer → Look after book for Welsh entertainer713 AcrossReveal answer → Four in romcom linked with sexual celebration1915 AcrossReveal answer → Multiplied by516 AcrossReveal answer → Tabloid target in Sulawesi — French are leaving517 AcrossReveal answer → Cheeky Girl shunning any number to be sociable?318 AcrossReveal answer → Shiver718 AcrossReveal answer → Lubricate320 AcrossReveal answer → Charm gypsy man among reformed drinkers520 AcrossReveal answer → Military command921 AcrossReveal answer → Court order422 AcrossReveal answer → Back where witch lived — she heartless722 AcrossReveal answer → Of the mind623 AcrossReveal answer → Dander raised, wanted to strangle learner driver725 AcrossReveal answer → American devoured by worst animal526 AcrossReveal answer → Use handle wrongly — let go927 AcrossReveal answer → Painting class in new term930 AcrossReveal answer → Repeatedly questions MP involved in discharge531 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hair oil61 DownReveal answer → See 15 Across191 DownReveal answer → Auspices52 DownReveal answer → Ineffectual73 DownReveal answer → Letters from Brother Aldhelm deceived goddess43 DownReveal answer → Moist54 DownReveal answer → Online space strange to M Roach84 DownReveal answer → Something tiny Romeo wore outside65 DownReveal answer → Characteristic75 DownReveal answer → Tapestries restored where threads gradually removed?106 DownReveal answer → Obstacle to concentration116 DownReveal answer → Parking in Asian metropolis for sacred site67 DownReveal answer → Nimble47 DownReveal answer → Lead removed from silver say and elsewhere48 DownReveal answer → Husband in delicate position513 DownReveal answer → Walker713 DownReveal answer → Respire714 DownReveal answer → Room for experimentation in party rhetoric1014 DownReveal answer → Doghouse615 DownReveal answer → Horse's gait416 DownReveal answer → Good boy receiving new organ516 DownReveal answer → Chic517 DownReveal answer → Not sharp519 DownReveal answer → Times Cryptic Hotline gives 'rock fragment'819 DownReveal answer → State in which goodish priest keeps house821 DownReveal answer → Limb found in river and well623 DownReveal answer → Horse one Queen maltreated624 DownReveal answer → One called 11 baronet encircling old city426 DownReveal answer → Deadly reptiles spring up to claim son428 DownReveal answer → Many a Welsh runner in the gloaming429 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Thursday, October 23, 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.