The Independent Crossword October 4 2025 Answers

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Below are all 110 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 4 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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Young salmon41 AcrossReveal answer → I need to add a parting gift bag81 AcrossReveal answer → Rip43 AcrossReveal answer → Main character is power mad65 AcrossReveal answer → Autonomy87 AcrossReveal answer → Remain48 AcrossReveal answer → Bedwear129 AcrossReveal answer → Writer whose only published work was Black Beauty109 AcrossReveal answer → French actor whose American films included Algiers, Love Affair and Gaslight1210 AcrossReveal answer → Slumbering610 AcrossReveal answer → Ridicule a boring liberal politician with nothing on710 AcrossReveal answer → Lay it on thick like Hollandaise at brunch711 AcrossReveal answer → Now and then, have endless distress512 AcrossReveal answer → Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest813 AcrossReveal answer → Underground passage613 AcrossReveal answer → Swell ultimately cutting boat ride off913 AcrossReveal answer → Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is Amiens514 AcrossReveal answer → Oti Mabuse dancing like a fox for Strictly1214 AcrossReveal answer → Building1215 AcrossReveal answer → 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk1415 AcrossReveal answer → German word for thunder, used as a name for one of Santa's reindeer616 AcrossReveal answer → One clears the air with former agriculturalist?1218 AcrossReveal answer → Dr Seuss character played by Jim Carrey in a 2000 film918 AcrossReveal answer → 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses519 AcrossReveal answer → Smear419 AcrossReveal answer → In baseball, a player who bats in place of the pitcher1620 AcrossReveal answer → Set free820 AcrossReveal answer → Naming two animals back to front921 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely421 AcrossReveal answer → Constellation whose brightest star is Altair622 AcrossReveal answer → Border422 AcrossReveal answer → Siren alarmed in part of peer's tank523 AcrossReveal answer → A medium-sized loaf that is glazed and notched on top724 AcrossReveal answer → Knocked back excellent beer - splendid stuff!724 AcrossReveal answer → Detailed request to get men back using laboratory725 AcrossReveal answer → Egon ___, painter and draughtsman who was a leading exponent of Austrian expressionism726 AcrossReveal answer → Prime Minister would vote for emergency appeal626 AcrossReveal answer → Obsessive sibling takes year for breakdown827 AcrossReveal answer → See 151429 AcrossReveal answer → Market town in Scotland on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of Moray530 AcrossReveal answer → Unofficial title used for the wife of the President of the United States931 AcrossReveal answer → One of Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis532 AcrossReveal answer → City in Apulia, Italy, that was the seat of Emperor Frederick II636 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of grasses with about 30 species cultivated for grain, hay and as a source of syrup738 AcrossReveal answer → A crisp lustrous plain-weave fabric used for ball gowns, wedding dresses and soft furnishings739 AcrossReveal answer → A stable, positively charged elementary particle640 AcrossReveal answer → 1993 Adrian Lyne film starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson1641 AcrossReveal answer → German river that empties into the North Sea at Bremerhaven545 AcrossReveal answer → Henry ___, German-born US academic and diplomat who shared the Nobel peace prize in 1973946 AcrossReveal answer → City in Sacramento County, California, best known for its prison, made famous by concerts performed there by Johnny Cash648 AcrossReveal answer → Song by sung by Doris Day in her film debut, Romance on the High Seas, which later became her theme song849 AcrossReveal answer → Gordon ___, character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel550 AcrossReveal answer → A lightly armed escort warship851 AcrossReveal answer → A steeplechase usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in hunting1253 AcrossReveal answer → Knighted English theatre, film and television director whose wives have included actresses Janet Suzman and Imogen Stubbs1054 AcrossReveal answer →

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Difficult offer61 DownReveal answer → 1990 album by Stéphane Grappelli and McCoy Tyner81 DownReveal answer → Primp51 DownReveal answer → Tim Key turned up in middle of cast leaks62 DownReveal answer → Any brown songbird of the family Alaudidae42 DownReveal answer → Displaced person72 DownReveal answer → Republican probes top brass about exercising restraint93 DownReveal answer → The fifth book of the Old Testament113 DownReveal answer → Plant support73 DownReveal answer → A lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon84 DownReveal answer → Walk through legal framework144 DownReveal answer → Valuable thing54 DownReveal answer → Abrupt45 DownReveal answer → Palace in Paris that is the official residence of the president of France65 DownReveal answer → Photographic device66 DownReveal answer → One holds hands eventually with model56 DownReveal answer → US TV crime drama series that starred William Conrad as prosecutor J L McCabe166 DownReveal answer → What occupies a scoundrel in pub?87 DownReveal answer → George Bush's first White House Chief of Staff, serving from 1989 to 1991107 DownReveal answer → 1977 single and album by David Bowie68 DownReveal answer → I reported chasing dog with no lead - what a sight!88 DownReveal answer → It's important to make promise, doing so freely149 DownReveal answer → Town in France that was the scene of a 1917 battle in which massed tanks were first used710 DownReveal answer → A crossbred hunting dog, usually a greyhound crossed with a collie711 DownReveal answer → Advertising phrase611 DownReveal answer → Movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet Gayane that gave Love Sculpture a hit single in the UK in 19681012 DownReveal answer → Depict712 DownReveal answer → Bandit714 DownReveal answer → Praise opponent in speech when they get there915 DownReveal answer → Declare endless love for Homer over message816 DownReveal answer → Dark fur516 DownReveal answer → Mistakenly using stone for weight with heft817 DownReveal answer → The capital of Kenya717 DownReveal answer → Tranquil417 DownReveal answer → Female relative518 DownReveal answer → Couples start union up619 DownReveal answer → Puzzles force John Robins to lose heart620 DownReveal answer → 1939 western in which Marlene Dietrich performs the song See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have1621 DownReveal answer → Some float, laying around in resort522 DownReveal answer → Original title given by Beethoven to his opera Fidelio723 DownReveal answer → David ___, the main character and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson's books Kidnapped and Catriona724 DownReveal answer → Singer-songwriter and composer whose albums include Poses and Release the Stars1525 DownReveal answer → 2005 film starring Will Smith in the title role527 DownReveal answer → African country whose capital is Cairo528 DownReveal answer → A plant with leaves divided into three leaflets733 DownReveal answer → See 251534 DownReveal answer → Song by Bob Dylan, from his 1970 album New Morning, that gave Olivia Newton-John a hit single in the UK in 19711135 DownReveal answer → The garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion1037 DownReveal answer → Another name for the edible mushroom Coprinopsis atramentaria741 DownReveal answer → An insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae742 DownReveal answer → Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, subject of a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare843 DownReveal answer → 1941 novel by Alberto Moravia that was banned by the Italian Fascist regime844 DownReveal answer → Term for a rower at Eton645 DownReveal answer → 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is Gengangere647 DownReveal answer → River that rises in County Cavan and flows to Donegal Bay452 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, October 4, 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.