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The Independent Crossword October 8 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 53 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword October 8 2025 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 53 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#
Judge made to pay for hearingFIND4Across1 DandyBEAU4Across1 Star trio cast as double-crossersTRAITORS8Across3 Leg jointKNEE4Across3 Ursine creatureBEAR4Across7 Adjudged insolventBANKRUPT8Across8 Venetian possibly has a cry about dead endBLINDALLEY10Across9 ContemptibleDESPICABLE10Across9 Crush soft stuff left behind by old flamesPASH4Across10 SecretCOVERT6Across11 Drunk is irate behind whiskey plantWISTERIA8Across11 Beastly disease classy lady keeps backLYSSA5Across12 Restricting ropeTETHER6Across13 American in the way of DC hero unplugging TeslaALABAMAN8Across13 FairREASONABLE10Across15 Attending events with becoming old hatDATING6Across15 Voluntary contribution from Willesden matched by FulhamWILFUL6Across16 Away from home, as ever so restlessOVERSEAS8Across18 Measuring compassDIVIDERS8Across19 Rocky outcropCRAG4Across20 Second lot of players get worked upSTEAM5Across20 CryWEEP4Across21 Where to get some spice after temperature changes quicklyINAHURRY8Across22 Calf meatVEAL4Across22 Nightclub closing early, one may slip round the backDISC4Across24 Distant bloke Methuselah is first to applaud lines one's penned?FARMANIMAL10Across25 Pair of sketches rendering a harp with laundryHARRYANDPAUL12Across26

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Note written by India during losing streak: "maybe catch something"FALLILL7Down1 Coffin standBIER4Down1 Musicians with nothing in the way of service?NONET5Down2 Shorten (text)ABRIDGE7Down2 Buddhist principleKARMA5Down3 Once again pick up relative by bankRELEARN7Down4 Tree trained to grow against a wallESPALIER8Down4 Eden regularly snubbed kindly old liberalIDYLL5Down5 Wading birdIBIS4Down5 Work by poets is moving here and there?OPPOSITES9Down6 Formally accuse or chargeINDICT6Down6 Crossword setters you shouldn't have trapped in vice sufferSUSTAIN7Down7 Tearful Hollywood wrongdoer wants inLACRIMAL8Down8 Sudden plungeNOSEDIVE8Down10 Bicycle for twoTANDEM6Down12 Cane syrupTREACLE7Down14 Sort of carriage I could go on dressed in awfully fab furBUFFETCAR9Down14 One spotted crow always disappeared eventuallyDIEDAWAY8Down15 StintSKIMP5Down16 Town's oddly impish sorceress leaving trapIPSWICH7Down17 ShrubBUSH4Down17 Foreign character comic's irony is totally out of boundsOMICRON7Down18 Loose scrumMAUL4Down18 It sounds like male heir resorted certain lettersAIRMAIL7Down19 Sensitive crossword setter's embracing one very loudlyMIFFY5Down21 Plumbing problem leads to class action somewhere in New YorkUTICA5Down23

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Wednesday, October 8, 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.