The Independent Crossword September 13 2025 Answers

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Below are all 106 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 13 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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Fireplace51 AcrossReveal answer → Meadow34 AcrossReveal answer → Friendly87 AcrossReveal answer → Quasi-religious organisation48 AcrossReveal answer → Boring to have sex when the other person has no moves99 AcrossReveal answer → Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels139 AcrossReveal answer → Shockingly bad109 AcrossReveal answer → Ben Affleck's biggest character lacking in measure510 AcrossReveal answer → A medical instrument for examining the external ear811 AcrossReveal answer → Paper-fastener611 AcrossReveal answer → Red Cross stops outcome of exsanguination?711 AcrossReveal answer → 5/10 - Fast & Furious712 AcrossReveal answer → Extend613 AcrossReveal answer → Naval post held by Emma Stone413 AcrossReveal answer → Plain ring gets adjusted to fit a woman getting married?1014 AcrossReveal answer → Brief eruption from the sun's surface1014 AcrossReveal answer → See 361014 AcrossReveal answer → "Elementary, Doctor Watson" - Sherlock's last point715 AcrossReveal answer → See 311215 AcrossReveal answer → Dialect spoken in Delhi and used as a lingua franca in N India and Pakistan1016 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Paraguay817 AcrossReveal answer → Potentially drives TT circuit very strongly717 AcrossReveal answer → 1986 film starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, based on the 1974 David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago1418 AcrossReveal answer → Counterfeit418 AcrossReveal answer → Walk over and queue where the bouncers are?1019 AcrossReveal answer → Order of angels819 AcrossReveal answer → Container320 AcrossReveal answer → British poet who experimented with sprung rhythm in his work1920 AcrossReveal answer → Mother-of-pearl521 AcrossReveal answer → Setter's going round holding in wee422 AcrossReveal answer → Dad about to take gentle wander back723 AcrossReveal answer → Take remedy to keep fit724 AcrossReveal answer → A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere825 AcrossReveal answer → Cryptic clue cracked by new family member526 AcrossReveal answer → Running about then abrupt diarrhoea927 AcrossReveal answer → A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded cones727 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for potassium carbonate or potassium hydroxide630 AcrossReveal answer → English comedian born Christopher Graham Collins in 19571231 AcrossReveal answer → 1964 number two UK hit single for Andy Williams1132 AcrossReveal answer → A genus of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae533 AcrossReveal answer → Arsenal player who became the youngest footballer to start a knock-out international for England in their 2-0 Euro 2020 victory over Germany1036 AcrossReveal answer → A robot designed to look and act like a human737 AcrossReveal answer → A liquorice-flavoured liqueur838 AcrossReveal answer → British pop music TV programme that ran from 1961 to 19661939 AcrossReveal answer → Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy1445 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889848 AcrossReveal answer → German luger who won gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics1049 AcrossReveal answer → Title shared by albums by Italian artists Lucio Dalla, Fabrizio De André, Chiara Civello and Mietta751 AcrossReveal answer → Former county town of Meath, home to the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland452 AcrossReveal answer → In various countries, the government department in charge of finance853 AcrossReveal answer → American dancer who died in 1927 when her silk scarf became entangled in the wheels of a car1354 AcrossReveal answer →

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Spoiled American spat out overegged trifle?151 DownReveal answer → Jean-Bédel ___, emperor of the Central African Empire from 1966 until overthrown in 197971 DownReveal answer → Wellingtons81 DownReveal answer → Roasts meat overnight, ultimately to go into buns82 DownReveal answer → Open grasslands characteristic of much of tropical Africa72 DownReveal answer → Racecourse52 DownReveal answer → Notorious fiddler has turned over capital for nothing43 DownReveal answer → Hug73 DownReveal answer → Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin113 DownReveal answer → Complex booby traps are working84 DownReveal answer → Type of varnish74 DownReveal answer → A distinguishing badge or emblem of military rank, office or membership84 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Kigali65 DownReveal answer → Competent45 DownReveal answer → Peaceful place outside of Earth65 DownReveal answer → A place where tin is mined86 DownReveal answer → Fund-raising event46 DownReveal answer → Low suppressed by this fizzy energy drink86 DownReveal answer → Chinese alcoholic drink distilled from fermented sorghum67 DownReveal answer → You in Strasbourg? No, in Stuttgart - listen!67 DownReveal answer → Lady turned green by fart, use toilet desperately158 DownReveal answer → Colourless gas whose atomic number is 1048 DownReveal answer → Former name for Taiwan710 DownReveal answer → Tennis court boundary810 DownReveal answer → Saying712 DownReveal answer → Town in Lincolnshire for whose football team cricketer Ian Botham played1012 DownReveal answer → Yellow spice713 DownReveal answer → 1973 British film starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr that took its title from a Buddy Holly hit1413 DownReveal answer → Too415 DownReveal answer → Savoury jelly516 DownReveal answer → Former copper cocked up, detective's cover is blown816 DownReveal answer → Etna billowing big smoke and grit817 DownReveal answer → Floating platform417 DownReveal answer → Passing judgement you are essentially a bit weird818 DownReveal answer → Suburb of Birmingham that produced such notable performers as Steel Pulse, Joan Armatrading and Benjamin Zephaniah1019 DownReveal answer → Dimension warping space-time620 DownReveal answer → Central character in a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting1421 DownReveal answer → Hide air-bed that's been delivered621 DownReveal answer → Labour MP for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019 who was a prominent supporter of Brexit822 DownReveal answer → Name of Igor Stravinsky's second ballet as it was first performed at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 19111023 DownReveal answer → 1917 sculpture by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"824 DownReveal answer → Nose broken by the end of the game425 DownReveal answer → Board game whose name means leap526 DownReveal answer → Short-tailed African primate with vertebral spines protruding through the skin in its neck region528 DownReveal answer → Country whose capital is Damascus529 DownReveal answer → A hybrid garden primrose with brightly-coloured flowers1034 DownReveal answer → Northern Irish actor whose TV roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones1135 DownReveal answer → 1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden840 DownReveal answer → The capital of Venezuela741 DownReveal answer → In Indian cookery, a method of cooking meat or vegetables in a clay oven842 DownReveal answer → The eighth planet from the sun743 DownReveal answer → Supreme commander of a fleet or navy744 DownReveal answer → Australian term for a con man646 DownReveal answer → Municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines, noted for its beaches647 DownReveal answer → William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes450 DownReveal answer →

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