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The Independent Crossword October 26 2025 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 52 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 26 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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Across

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Singly101 AcrossReveal answer → Layers67 AcrossReveal answer → In place (of)68 AcrossReveal answer → Bar in old city, one with a cathedral, charmingly88 AcrossReveal answer → See note89 AcrossReveal answer → Fear any injury except for left hand59 AcrossReveal answer → Land on time just the same410 AcrossReveal answer → Competent410 AcrossReveal answer → Threaten611 AcrossReveal answer → Island people taking mostly healthy breath1011 AcrossReveal answer → One's bored by wait in the same place612 AcrossReveal answer → Number puzzle613 AcrossReveal answer → Admire search for explanation of atom's nucleus814 AcrossReveal answer → ?415 AcrossReveal answer → Sets of triplets caught in street playing715 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor bringing Russian crate across border from the east717 AcrossReveal answer → ?817 AcrossReveal answer → Sorcerer619 AcrossReveal answer → Crumb620 AcrossReveal answer → Healing evolved via truce820 AcrossReveal answer → Teenager1021 AcrossReveal answer → Too many dogs around keeping one constantly busy622 AcrossReveal answer → Old-fashioned steward from Rio hates jumping ship1023 AcrossReveal answer → US safe-cracker, Yankee with something to crack?424 AcrossReveal answer → Bad feeling having skinned bunnies for cooking525 AcrossReveal answer → City's quiet hotel filling again unexpectedly826 AcrossReveal answer →

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Inexperienced sailor shown moving back to front, possibly pulled81 DownReveal answer → Result71 DownReveal answer → Win point with superior attention42 DownReveal answer → Antelope52 DownReveal answer → Speak badly of73 DownReveal answer → Half-way through Spielberg film keeping you up, cause of 25?63 DownReveal answer → Consider54 DownReveal answer → Orbit I complete when told74 DownReveal answer → ?75 DownReveal answer → American tracks rising lawyer, or 'user of puzzle's perimeter'85 DownReveal answer → ?46 DownReveal answer → Mother fifty, so Scot proposing birth control106 DownReveal answer → Money due to HMRC, money Post Office's IT has pinched67 DownReveal answer → Clumsy712 DownReveal answer → Plots713 DownReveal answer → Detectives turned up bug to sharpen recording device1013 DownReveal answer → Most generous714 DownReveal answer → Prepare for publication416 DownReveal answer → Dogs bite back in confusion816 DownReveal answer → Archetype517 DownReveal answer → Extract from prewar Magna Carta is something Gascon still produces818 DownReveal answer → Overeat518 DownReveal answer → Flipping board game always limited by wrist pain?719 DownReveal answer → Academic outfits no longer meant to suit everyone621 DownReveal answer → Sergeant major cuts key in dark622 DownReveal answer → Spanish painter cycles to the top for exercise424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, October 26, 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.