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The Independent Crossword October 25 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 25 2024 answers. The Friday puzzle has 54 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#
Flasher starts to swish their gownSTROBE6Across1 Rook's cryCAW3Across1 Leg jointKNEE4Across3 Operative undertaking to block backing of corporationFACTOTUM8Across4 AbandonedFORSAKEN8Across7 SnatchGRAB4Across8 Self-ruleINDEPENDENCE12Across9 Try Polanski film including line without mercyHEARTLESS9Across10 Health centreCLINIC6Across10 Regulated online talk provider bringing in a ParisianTUNED5Across11 Came down to earth about blokes getting nutritionALIMENT7Across12 Succeed or break?COMEOFF7Across13 Muslim place of worshipMOSQUE6Across13 Priest once more dismissing one heathenPAGAN5Across14 Old story: talk of translated article by ProustFOLKTALE8Across15 EquilibriumCOUNTERPOISE12Across15 Perhaps quarrelsome craftsman flourished alongside engraverFLETCHER8Across18 VendettaFEUD4Across19 Former Spanish gold coinDOUBLOON8Across20 Irritating leader leaving town, having snatched childrenITCHY5Across20 Spoken examORAL4Across21 GrannyNAN3Across22 Twain hero, beset by drink, is to give inCHUCKUP7Across23 Not favouring big stove in small tenement, ultimatelyAGAINST7Across25 Stop getting behind popular record labelINDIE5Across26 Note dreadful lion close by, taking a twisting routeNONLINEAR9Across27 Ethical person increasingly cut down celebrityMORALIST8Across28 Time in South Africa - new different form of South Africa - marked in verseSTANZA6Across29

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Circus entertainerCLOWN5Down1 Goes out after school clutching soft drinkSCHNAPPS8Down1 Circular ripple around boat propeller making a loud noiseROARING7Down2 Cowboy filmWESTERN7Down2 RealmKINGDOM7Down3 American tree: ending of climb by absolute idiotBUTTERNUT9Down3 EncourageEGGON5Down4 Alliances are reforming around borders of older disputed territoryALSACELORRAINE14Down5 Scottish islandSKYE4Down5 Tribal symbol, as those people see it, is short of heightTOTEM5Down6 Fancy cakeGATEAU6Down6 Money put on stump for aluminium sheetingTINFOIL7Down7 Dog often turning up, interrupting my redesignMODIFY6Down8 Bottom, giving no thought to one’s performance?SEATOFTHEPANTS14Down9 Storage compartmentLOCKER6Down11 StrongholdCITADEL7Down12 DistendedSWOLLEN7Down14 Tense outfit, American, obscure - one’s involved in multiple partnershipsTRIGAMIST9Down16 BeneathUNDER5Down16 Sauce baseROUX4Down17 Wild hairstyle, with length trimmed, producing emotional outburstHYSTERIA8Down17 DerisionSCORN5Down18 Work as cleaner, subject to following Legislative AssemblyLAUNDER7Down19 Charge adolescent producing messCANTEEN7Down21 Chief is protected by Sergeant-Major in breachSCHISM6Down22 King, King’s mistress and the sound of fate?KNEEL5Down24

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, October 25, 2024. 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.