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The Independent Crossword October 4 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 110 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 4 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 110 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#
Young salmonPARR4Across1 I need to add a parting gift bagKNAPSACK8Across1 RipTEAR4Across3 Main character is power madPIRATE6Across5 AutonomySELFRULE8Across7 RemainSTAY4Across8 BedwearNIGHTCLOTHES12Across9 Writer whose only published work was Black BeautyANNASEWELL10Across9 French actor whose American films included Algiers, Love Affair and GaslightCHARLESBOYER12Across10 SlumberingASLEEP6Across10 Ridicule a boring liberal politician with nothing onLAMPOON7Across10 Lay it on thick like Hollandaise at brunchOVEREGG7Across11 Now and then, have endless distressEATAT5Across12 Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crestCOCKATOO8Across13 Underground passageSUBWAY6Across13 Swell ultimately cutting boat ride offTIDALBORE9Across13 Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is AmiensSOMME5Across14 Oti Mabuse dancing like a fox for StrictlyABSTEMIOUSLY12Across14 BuildingCONSTRUCTION12Across15 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander SelkirkROBINSONCRUSOE14Across15 German word for thunder, used as a name for one of Santa's reindeerDONNER6Across16 One clears the air with former agriculturalist?EXTRACTORFAN12Across18 Dr Seuss character played by Jim Carrey in a 2000 filmTHEGRINCH9Across18 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a young man who has a pathological fascination with horsesEQUUS5Across19 SmearDAUB4Across19 In baseball, a player who bats in place of the pitcherDESIGNATEDHITTER16Across20 Set freeRELEASED8Across20 Naming two animals back to frontEPONYMOUS9Across21 ExtremelyVERY4Across21 Constellation whose brightest star is AltairAQUILA6Across22 BorderEDGE4Across22 Siren alarmed in part of peer's tankRENAL5Across23 A medium-sized loaf that is glazed and notched on topBLOOMER7Across24 Knocked back excellent beer - splendid stuff!REGALIA7Across24 Detailed request to get men back using laboratoryINVITRO7Across25 Egon ___, painter and draughtsman who was a leading exponent of Austrian expressionismSCHIELE7Across26 Prime Minister would vote for emergency appealMAYDAY6Across26 Obsessive sibling takes year for breakdownANALYSIS8Across27 See 15ROBINSONCRUSOE14Across29 Market town in Scotland on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of MorayELGIN5Across30 Unofficial title used for the wife of the President of the United StatesFIRSTLADY9Across31 One of Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and AramisATHOS5Across32 City in Apulia, Italy, that was the seat of Emperor Frederick IIFOGGIA6Across36 Genus of grasses with about 30 species cultivated for grain, hay and as a source of syrupSORGHUM7Across38 A crisp lustrous plain-weave fabric used for ball gowns, wedding dresses and soft furnishingsTAFFETA7Across39 A stable, positively charged elementary particlePROTON6Across40 1993 Adrian Lyne film starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody HarrelsonINDECENTPROPOSAL16Across41 German river that empties into the North Sea at BremerhavenWESER5Across45 Henry ___, German-born US academic and diplomat who shared the Nobel peace prize in 1973KISSINGER9Across46 City in Sacramento County, California, best known for its prison, made famous by concerts performed there by Johnny CashFOLSOM6Across48 Song by sung by Doris Day in her film debut, Romance on the High Seas, which later became her theme songITSMAGIC8Across49 Gordon ___, character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequelGEKKO5Across50 A lightly armed escort warshipCORVETTE8Across51 A steeplechase usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in huntingPOINTTOPOINT12Across53 Knighted English theatre, film and television director whose wives have included actresses Janet Suzman and Imogen StubbsTREVORNUNN10Across54

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Difficult offerKILLER6Down1 1990 album by Stéphane Grappelli and McCoy TynerONEONONE8Down1 PrimpPREEN5Down1 Tim Key turned up in middle of cast leaksADMITS6Down2 Any brown songbird of the family AlaudidaeLARK4Down2 Displaced personREFUGEE7Down2 Republican probes top brass about exercising restraintSPORTSBRA9Down3 The fifth book of the Old TestamentDEUTERONOMY11Down3 Plant supportTRELLIS7Down3 A lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloonAEROSTAT8Down4 Walk through legal frameworkCONSTITUTIONAL14Down4 Valuable thingASSET5Down4 AbruptCURT4Down5 Palace in Paris that is the official residence of the president of FranceELYSEE6Down5 Photographic deviceCAMERA6Down6 One holds hands eventually with modelIDEAL5Down6 US TV crime drama series that starred William Conrad as prosecutor J L McCabeJAKEANDTHEFATMAN16Down6 What occupies a scoundrel in pub?ALEHOUSE8Down7 George Bush's first White House Chief of Staff, serving from 1989 to 1991JOHNSUNUNU10Down7 1977 single and album by David BowieHEROES6Down8 I reported chasing dog with no lead - what a sight!EAGLEEYE8Down8 It's important to make promise, doing so freelyGOODIMPRESSION14Down9 Town in France that was the scene of a 1917 battle in which massed tanks were first usedCAMBRAI7Down10 A crossbred hunting dog, usually a greyhound crossed with a collieLURCHER7Down11 Advertising phraseSLOGAN6Down11 Movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet Gayane that gave Love Sculpture a hit single in the UK in 1968SABREDANCE10Down12 DepictPORTRAY7Down12 BanditBRIGAND7Down14 Praise opponent in speech when they get thereONARRIVAL9Down15 Declare endless love for Homer over messageTELEGRAM8Down16 Dark furSABLE5Down16 Mistakenly using stone for weight with heftSTRONGLY8Down17 The capital of KenyaNAIROBI7Down17 TranquilCALM4Down17 Female relativeNIECE5Down18 Couples start union upUNITES6Down19 Puzzles force John Robins to lose heartFLOORS6Down20 1939 western in which Marlene Dietrich performs the song See What the Boys in the Back Room Will HaveDESTRYRIDESAGAIN16Down21 Some float, laying around in resortYALTA5Down22 Original title given by Beethoven to his opera FidelioLEONORA7Down23 David ___, the main character and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson's books Kidnapped and CatrionaBALFOUR7Down24 Singer-songwriter and composer whose albums include Poses and Release the StarsRUFUSWAINWRIGHT15Down25 2005 film starring Will Smith in the title roleHITCH5Down27 African country whose capital is CairoEGYPT5Down28 A plant with leaves divided into three leafletsTREFOIL7Down33 See 25RUFUSWAINWRIGHT15Down34 Song by Bob Dylan, from his 1970 album New Morning, that gave Olivia Newton-John a hit single in the UK in 1971IFNOTFORYOU11Down35 The garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his CrucifixionGETHSEMANE10Down37 Another name for the edible mushroom Coprinopsis atramentariaINKYCAP7Down41 An insect of the orthopterous family GryllidaeCRICKET7Down42 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 ShakespearePERICLES8Down43 1941 novel by Alberto Moravia that was banned by the Italian Fascist regimeAGOSTINO8Down44 Term for a rower at EtonWETBOB6Down45 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is GengangereGHOSTS6Down47 River that rises in County Cavan and flows to Donegal BayERNE4Down52

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, October 4, 2025. 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.