The Independent Crossword October 25 2025 Answers

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Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 25 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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Shrill51 AcrossReveal answer → Stratagem44 AcrossReveal answer → Kitchen tool77 AcrossReveal answer → Italian musician at last eating a filling local sandwich (or two?)88 AcrossReveal answer → Satisfy fully48 AcrossReveal answer → Daily Star69 AcrossReveal answer → Type of art exhibit129 AcrossReveal answer → Palestinians backed by Oxbridge academic make very slow progress610 AcrossReveal answer → Disparate610 AcrossReveal answer → American actress who won a record four Best Actress Oscars1611 AcrossReveal answer → French tennis icon heading for Channel island in lifeboat?811 AcrossReveal answer → Free of charge612 AcrossReveal answer → Parcel company, mostly growing in reputation, causes a revolution812 AcrossReveal answer → This bendy motorway's narrow passages613 AcrossReveal answer → Overall title of several series of films written and directed by Edgar Reitz featuring life in Germany between 1919 and 2000613 AcrossReveal answer → Takeaway at lunchtime?1514 AcrossReveal answer → Former name of Benin714 AcrossReveal answer → The uppermost and widest of the three sections of the hipbone515 AcrossReveal answer → A thick white sauce named after a steward of Louis XIV of France816 AcrossReveal answer → Naval NCO1216 AcrossReveal answer → Daughter to Cymbeline in Shakespeare's play617 AcrossReveal answer → Any whole number or zero718 AcrossReveal answer → Fuddy-duddy Spurs wingers admitting defeat? On the contrary618 AcrossReveal answer → Classic song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934 that has become the anthem of Manchester City819 AcrossReveal answer → Artificial419 AcrossReveal answer → Sloping letters720 AcrossReveal answer → Fans around India excited after king returned the country's old money820 AcrossReveal answer → English actress whose TV roles include Joan Booth in Love Thy Neighbour and Audrey Withey in Widows1221 AcrossReveal answer → Song of praise421 AcrossReveal answer → The second brightest star in the sky722 AcrossReveal answer → Literary category522 AcrossReveal answer → Bodyguard following group of engineers - this in case you forgot823 AcrossReveal answer → The world's largest lake1024 AcrossReveal answer → Dell is put inside suitcase624 AcrossReveal answer → Diva halfheartedly drinks one port625 AcrossReveal answer → Bony segments that make up the spinal column926 AcrossReveal answer → Looking fixedly, wasting little time when producing chemical weapon826 AcrossReveal answer → Town in the Czech Republic that was the site of Napoleon's victory over Russian and Austrian armies in 18051029 AcrossReveal answer → A trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the opposite side to that of the hypotenuse432 AcrossReveal answer → J R R Tolkien character described as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth"933 AcrossReveal answer → African country whose capital is Lomé434 AcrossReveal answer → Bernard ___, officer who successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein1037 AcrossReveal answer → English conspirator executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot938 AcrossReveal answer → Queen of England from 1558 to 16031040 AcrossReveal answer → South American country whose capital is Quito742 AcrossReveal answer → 1975 Neil Young studio album that features the song Cortez The Killer444 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Malta845 AcrossReveal answer → Leon ___, Russian revolutionary born Lev Davidovich Bronstein747 AcrossReveal answer → Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica649 AcrossReveal answer → See 211250 AcrossReveal answer → See 541152 AcrossReveal answer → American rapper and actor born O'Shea Jackson in 1969753 AcrossReveal answer → American singer-songwriter who joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 with her partner Lindsey Buckingham1154 AcrossReveal answer → French actor, singer and entertainer associated with the songs Louise and Thank Heaven for Little Girls1655 AcrossReveal answer →

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1941 novel by James Hilton131 DownReveal answer → One captured by the enemy about to invite everyone in for a beer61 DownReveal answer → Large quantities of paper51 DownReveal answer → The seat of government of the Netherlands82 DownReveal answer → Ultimately, Gabriel with Collins, for the listener a load of rubbish82 DownReveal answer → Attempt to equal72 DownReveal answer → Commercial and industrial city in northwestern Germany with a major port on the River Weser63 DownReveal answer → Annual63 DownReveal answer → Wagner opera: nul points in Paris, almost the same in New York63 DownReveal answer → Poem by John Keats that begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"84 DownReveal answer → State54 DownReveal answer → 1978 film generates clue for g, say154 DownReveal answer → Piccolo is one overwhelmed by far too much wine, commonly85 DownReveal answer → Remote settlement75 DownReveal answer → English actor who played Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun145 DownReveal answer → Heavy metal66 DownReveal answer → Debt is problematic, finding a place to live66 DownReveal answer → Name given to Robert Schumann's Symphony No 1 in B-flat major66 DownReveal answer → The powdered stem of the tropical plant Curcuma longa, used as a condiment and as a yellow dye87 DownReveal answer → Students' Union: first I must leave for it to become more sovereign87 DownReveal answer → 1952 play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials118 DownReveal answer → Indian film director, actress and producer whose films include Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding89 DownReveal answer → Arsenal wing half who captained Wales at their only ever FIFA World Cup finals, in 1958910 DownReveal answer → Treatment711 DownReveal answer → Formerly, a European who made a fortune in the Orient, especially in India512 DownReveal answer → Forbear713 DownReveal answer → Emphasise614 DownReveal answer → Tedious615 DownReveal answer → Boy adopted by a rising celebrity in full agreement815 DownReveal answer → Former democrat, American, seen in sports car, something difficult to obtain816 DownReveal answer → Awesome skyward throw that's perplexing817 DownReveal answer → Poison517 DownReveal answer → Offence518 DownReveal answer → Red army invading quiet zone619 DownReveal answer → Australian rock band best known for their 1981 worldwide hit Down Under920 DownReveal answer → Right ascending note's creating sound effect621 DownReveal answer → BBC sitcom starring Lenny Henry that ran from 1993 to 1996422 DownReveal answer → We hear people waiting by new supermarket for a place to buy and sell securities622 DownReveal answer → Classic 1961 song written by Ben E King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller923 DownReveal answer → Percy Bysshe ___, English Romantic poet who drowned in 1822725 DownReveal answer → The European thrush Turdus torquatus927 DownReveal answer → Plant of the genus Senecio with yellow daisy-like flowers728 DownReveal answer → British pop group best known for their 1987 worldwide hit Breakout1430 DownReveal answer → Fish of European Atlantic waters also called a scad1331 DownReveal answer → Latin hymn commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion1135 DownReveal answer → See 9836 DownReveal answer → Internet search engine launched in 1995, bought by Yahoo! in 2003 and shut down in 2013939 DownReveal answer → The largest city in Turkey841 DownReveal answer → 1996 disaster film starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman and Viggo Mortensen843 DownReveal answer → A traditional Spanish form of operetta or vaudeville with alternate spoken and sung scenes844 DownReveal answer → State of NE India with the heaviest rainfall in the world546 DownReveal answer → Plant whose varieties are pollinated by different insects648 DownReveal answer → Port in SW Spain between the estuaries of the Odiel and Tinto Rivers649 DownReveal answer → In the Old Testament, the third son of Jacob and Leah451 DownReveal answer →

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