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The Independent Crossword October 8 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 53 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 53 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 8 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Judge made to pay for hearing41 AcrossReveal answer → Dandy41 AcrossReveal answer → Star trio cast as double-crossers83 AcrossReveal answer → Leg joint43 AcrossReveal answer → Ursine creature47 AcrossReveal answer → Adjudged insolvent88 AcrossReveal answer → Venetian possibly has a cry about dead end109 AcrossReveal answer → Contemptible109 AcrossReveal answer → Crush soft stuff left behind by old flames410 AcrossReveal answer → Secret611 AcrossReveal answer → Drunk is irate behind whiskey plant811 AcrossReveal answer → Beastly disease classy lady keeps back512 AcrossReveal answer → Restricting rope613 AcrossReveal answer → American in the way of DC hero unplugging Tesla813 AcrossReveal answer → Fair1015 AcrossReveal answer → Attending events with becoming old hat615 AcrossReveal answer → Voluntary contribution from Willesden matched by Fulham616 AcrossReveal answer → Away from home, as ever so restless818 AcrossReveal answer → Measuring compass819 AcrossReveal answer → Rocky outcrop420 AcrossReveal answer → Second lot of players get worked up520 AcrossReveal answer → Cry421 AcrossReveal answer → Where to get some spice after temperature changes quickly822 AcrossReveal answer → Calf meat422 AcrossReveal answer → Nightclub closing early, one may slip round the back424 AcrossReveal answer → Distant bloke Methuselah is first to applaud lines one's penned?1025 AcrossReveal answer → Pair of sketches rendering a harp with laundry1226 AcrossReveal answer →

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Note written by India during losing streak: "maybe catch something"71 DownReveal answer → Coffin stand41 DownReveal answer → Musicians with nothing in the way of service?52 DownReveal answer → Shorten (text)72 DownReveal answer → Buddhist principle53 DownReveal answer → Once again pick up relative by bank74 DownReveal answer → Tree trained to grow against a wall84 DownReveal answer → Eden regularly snubbed kindly old liberal55 DownReveal answer → Wading bird45 DownReveal answer → Work by poets is moving here and there?96 DownReveal answer → Formally accuse or charge66 DownReveal answer → Crossword setters you shouldn't have trapped in vice suffer77 DownReveal answer → Tearful Hollywood wrongdoer wants in88 DownReveal answer → Sudden plunge810 DownReveal answer → Bicycle for two612 DownReveal answer → Cane syrup714 DownReveal answer → Sort of carriage I could go on dressed in awfully fab fur914 DownReveal answer → One spotted crow always disappeared eventually815 DownReveal answer → Stint516 DownReveal answer → Town's oddly impish sorceress leaving trap717 DownReveal answer → Shrub417 DownReveal answer → Foreign character comic's irony is totally out of bounds718 DownReveal answer → Loose scrum418 DownReveal answer → It sounds like male heir resorted certain letters719 DownReveal answer → Sensitive crossword setter's embracing one very loudly521 DownReveal answer → Plumbing problem leads to class action somewhere in New York523 DownReveal answer →

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