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The Independent Crossword September 13 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 106 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword September 13 2025 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 106 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#
FireplaceGRATE5Across1 MeadowLEA3Across4 FriendlyAMICABLE8Across7 Quasi-religious organisationCULT4Across8 Boring to have sex when the other person has no movesSTALEMATE9Across9 Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's TravelsJONATHANSWIFT13Across9 Shockingly badOUTRAGEOUS10Across9 Ben Affleck's biggest character lacking in measureMOUNT5Across10 A medical instrument for examining the external earOTOSCOPE8Across11 Paper-fastenerSTAPLE6Across11 Red Cross stops outcome of exsanguination?OXBLOOD7Across11 5/10 - Fast & FuriousVIOLENT7Across12 ExtendSPREAD6Across13 Naval post held by Emma StoneMAST4Across13 Plain ring gets adjusted to fit a woman getting married?STONEHENGE10Across14 Brief eruption from the sun's surfaceSOLARFLARE10Across14 See 36BUKAYOSAKA10Across14 "Elementary, Doctor Watson" - Sherlock's last pointNOSWEAT7Across15 See 31FRANKSKINNER12Across15 Dialect spoken in Delhi and used as a lingua franca in N India and PakistanHINDUSTANI10Across16 The capital of ParaguayASUNCION8Across17 Potentially drives TT circuit very stronglyTEESOFF7Across17 1986 film starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, based on the 1974 David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in ChicagoABOUTLASTNIGHT14Across18 CounterfeitFAKE4Across18 Walk over and queue where the bouncers are?TRAMPOLINE10Across19 Order of angelsSERAPHIM8Across19 ContainerTUB3Across20 British poet who experimented with sprung rhythm in his workGERARDMANLEYHOPKINS19Across20 Mother-of-pearlNACRE5Across21 Setter's going round holding in weeMINI4Across22 Dad about to take gentle wander backAPPROVE7Across23 Take remedy to keep fitCAPTURE7Across24 A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhereCENOTAPH8Across25 Cryptic clue cracked by new family memberUNCLE5Across26 Running about then abrupt diarrhoeaONTHETROT9Across27 A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded conesCYPRESS7Across27 Another name for potassium carbonate or potassium hydroxidePOTASH6Across30 English comedian born Christopher Graham Collins in 1957FRANKSKINNER12Across31 1964 number two UK hit single for Andy WilliamsALMOSTTHERE11Across32 A genus of perennial and annual plants in the family PolemoniaceaePHLOX5Across33 Arsenal player who became the youngest footballer to start a knock-out international for England in their 2-0 Euro 2020 victory over GermanyBUKAYOSAKA10Across36 A robot designed to look and act like a humanANDROID7Across37 A liquorice-flavoured liqueurANISETTE8Across38 British pop music TV programme that ran from 1961 to 1966THANKYOURLUCKYSTARS19Across39 Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyLAURENCESTERNE14Across45 Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889NINTENDO8Across48 German luger who won gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter OlympicsGEORGHACKL10Across49 Title shared by albums by Italian artists Lucio Dalla, Fabrizio De André, Chiara Civello and MiettaCANZONI7Across51 Former county town of Meath, home to the largest Cambro-Norman castle in IrelandTRIM4Across52 In various countries, the government department in charge of financeTREASURY8Across53 American dancer who died in 1927 when her silk scarf became entangled in the wheels of a carISADORADUNCAN13Across54

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Spoiled American spat out overegged trifle?ASTORMINATEACUP15Down1 Jean-Bédel ___, emperor of the Central African Empire from 1966 until overthrown in 1979BOKASSA7Down1 WellingtonsGUMBOOTS8Down1 Roasts meat overnight, ultimately to go into bunsLAMBASTS8Down2 Open grasslands characteristic of much of tropical AfricaSAVANNA7Down2 RacecourseASCOT5Down2 Notorious fiddler has turned over capital for nothingZERO4Down3 HugEMBRACE7Down3 Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grinCHESHIRECAT11Down3 Complex booby traps are workingHARDATIT8Down4 Type of varnishLACQUER7Down4 A distinguishing badge or emblem of military rank, office or membershipINSIGNIA8Down4 Country whose capital is KigaliRWANDA6Down5 CompetentABLE4Down5 Peaceful place outside of EarthHEAVEN6Down5 A place where tin is minedSTANNARY8Down6 Fund-raising eventFETE4Down6 Low suppressed by this fizzy energy drinkSMOOTHIE8Down6 Chinese alcoholic drink distilled from fermented sorghumMOUTAI6Down7 You in Strasbourg? No, in Stuttgart - listen!TUNEIN6Down7 Lady turned green by fart, use toilet desperatelySTATUEOFLIBERTY15Down8 Colourless gas whose atomic number is 10NEON4Down8 Former name for TaiwanFORMOSA7Down10 Tennis court boundaryBASELINE8Down10 SayingPROVERB7Down12 Town in Lincolnshire for whose football team cricketer Ian Botham playedSCUNTHORPE10Down12 Yellow spiceSAFFRON7Down13 1973 British film starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr that took its title from a Buddy Holly hitTHATLLBETHEDAY14Down13 TooALSO4Down15 Savoury jellyASPIC5Down16 Former copper cocked up, detective's cover is blownEXPLODED8Down16 Etna billowing big smoke and gritTENACITY8Down17 Floating platformRAFT4Down17 Passing judgement you are essentially a bit weirdOBITUARY8Down18 Suburb of Birmingham that produced such notable performers as Steel Pulse, Joan Armatrading and Benjamin ZephaniahHANDSWORTH10Down19 Dimension warping space-timeASPECT6Down20 Central character in a series of children's books by Hugh LoftingDOCTORDOLITTLE14Down21 Hide air-bed that's been deliveredLIELOW6Down21 Labour MP for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019 who was a prominent supporter of BrexitKATEHOEY8Down22 Name of Igor Stravinsky's second ballet as it was first performed at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 1911PETROUCHKA10Down23 1917 sculpture by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"FOUNTAIN8Down24 Nose broken by the end of the gamePREY4Down25 Board game whose name means leapHALMA5Down26 Short-tailed African primate with vertebral spines protruding through the skin in its neck regionPOTTO5Down28 Country whose capital is DamascusSYRIA5Down29 A hybrid garden primrose with brightly-coloured flowersPOLYANTHUS10Down34 Northern Irish actor whose TV roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of ThronesCIARANHINDS11Down35 1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack WardenUSEDCARS8Down40 The capital of VenezuelaCARACAS7Down41 In Indian cookery, a method of cooking meat or vegetables in a clay ovenTANDOORI8Down42 The eighth planet from the sunNEPTUNE7Down43 Supreme commander of a fleet or navyADMIRAL7Down44 Australian term for a con manRORTER6Down46 Municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines, noted for its beachesELNIDO6Down47 William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudesETTY4Down50

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, September 13, 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.