The Independent Crossword September 20 2025 Answers

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Below are all 108 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 20 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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Portion41 AcrossReveal answer → Cutlet? School dunce getting zero meals, skipping regularly91 AcrossReveal answer → Inheritor43 AcrossReveal answer → Heads for chilled beer, but accepting another drink a bit56 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican hat87 AcrossReveal answer → Risqué48 AcrossReveal answer → Match time - about to get stuck in59 AcrossReveal answer → Popular song by Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson, subtitled It's Later than You Think139 AcrossReveal answer → Sincere (Informal)109 AcrossReveal answer → Horrible bum noises in substantial volumes910 AcrossReveal answer → Alaskan city in which nothing is unpleasant711 AcrossReveal answer → Spiny plant611 AcrossReveal answer → Elegant clothes? Yes, and bust will look remarkable1012 AcrossReveal answer → Short sleep613 AcrossReveal answer → Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains813 AcrossReveal answer → Good sense, not about to take European bribe613 AcrossReveal answer → Mouth section1014 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Poland614 AcrossReveal answer → Large group, nearly everyone, besieging very good treatment centre814 AcrossReveal answer → Part of the Countdown studio that houses a lexicographer and a celebrity guest1615 AcrossReveal answer → American author whose novels included Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant1016 AcrossReveal answer → Church service418 AcrossReveal answer → Exercises I abandoned to repair spear818 AcrossReveal answer → US country singer and songwriter whose songs include Jambalaya and Your Cheatin' Heart1218 AcrossReveal answer → Response819 AcrossReveal answer → Shakespeare play set in Ancient Britain and based on legends concerning an early Celtic king919 AcrossReveal answer → Weal420 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of the Philippines620 AcrossReveal answer → Recalled strike times: rather hard in places620 AcrossReveal answer → Weapons421 AcrossReveal answer → Term used to denote "I have received all of the last transmission" in aviation radio communications523 AcrossReveal answer → Joke teller covering Society on the widest scale623 AcrossReveal answer → Agreement: there’s damage on rear of dinghy725 AcrossReveal answer → Regency dandy credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men's suit, worn with a necktie1226 AcrossReveal answer → Running, I cannot retain energy, and start to languish over two Olympiads927 AcrossReveal answer → Religious figure clearing South American city of dangerous insects528 AcrossReveal answer → Hot with desire, a creature waiting to move in?529 AcrossReveal answer → Units of distance used in astronomy, equal to 0.3066 parsecs1029 AcrossReveal answer → Robespierre, perhaps frequently beheaded servant930 AcrossReveal answer → A substance that turns litmus red430 AcrossReveal answer → City in which The Simpsons is set1131 AcrossReveal answer → A serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions432 AcrossReveal answer → White waxy substance obtained from a whale's head, used in cosmetics, candles, ointments, etc1035 AcrossReveal answer → 1997 British film directed by Peter Cattaneo with a screenplay written by Simon Beaufoy1236 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, a female figure said to have been loved by Apollo and bore him Delphos, the eponymous founder of Delphi537 AcrossReveal answer → Dorothy L ___, author who created the characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane638 AcrossReveal answer → The goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology939 AcrossReveal answer → Actor whose films include Harvey and It's a Wonderful Life1243 AcrossReveal answer → The creeping Eurasian rosaceous plant Rubus chamaemorus, which has white flowers and orange drupelets1047 AcrossReveal answer → 1989 Walt Disney film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen1648 AcrossReveal answer → A group of over 70 islands off the N coast of Scotland separated from the mainland by the Pentland Firth650 AcrossReveal answer → Pietro ___, Italian painter noted especially for his portraits of President Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth II851 AcrossReveal answer → A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between the Girondins and the Jacobins1352 AcrossReveal answer →

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The occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings81 DownReveal answer → Identify name involved in spectacle such as drunken party?91 DownReveal answer → Suggestion81 DownReveal answer → George Harrison's first single as a solo artist; the biggest-selling single in the UK in 1971112 DownReveal answer → Girl’s getting love in scene, ultimately - this girl?72 DownReveal answer → Automaton52 DownReveal answer → Chemical element with the symbol Au43 DownReveal answer → Dubious choice to ignore earliest cold operations – in such as these?93 DownReveal answer → Reap73 DownReveal answer → Unit of length44 DownReveal answer → Rushed veterinary work at Regent’s Park?64 DownReveal answer → The point on the celestial sphere vertically above an observer64 DownReveal answer → Indented area65 DownReveal answer → New rip in sack letting one escape? It might just work85 DownReveal answer → Feathers ___, penguin in the 1993 Nick Park animated short film The Wrong Trousers65 DownReveal answer → Writer with account elevated humble home?56 DownReveal answer → Naevus46 DownReveal answer → Chemical compound, mainly used for propellants, that reduces hormone production in the thyroid gland116 DownReveal answer → Newly-prominent delivery company, very sharp77 DownReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the white-robed incarnations of destiny, often known in English as the Fates67 DownReveal answer → British physician, theologian and lexicographer best known for publishing a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852148 DownReveal answer → See 12 Across108 DownReveal answer → Very hungry810 DownReveal answer → Business associate of Thomas Gradgrind in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens1510 DownReveal answer → Anise-flavoured liqueur named after its French inventor who sold it as the "authentic pastis of Marseilles"611 DownReveal answer → Passage712 DownReveal answer → Daily newspaper founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley1412 DownReveal answer → Neckwear item613 DownReveal answer → Roam around in alarm, covering a wide area915 DownReveal answer → Venture415 DownReveal answer → Observe secular period, certainly getting involved916 DownReveal answer → Following516 DownReveal answer → Garden tool417 DownReveal answer → Male is arch - displaying this?817 DownReveal answer → American comedian and silent film actor who reportedly bought an insurance policy, payable if his eyes ever uncrossed917 DownReveal answer → Article following the Parisian evangelist719 DownReveal answer → Succeed, having misdirected gangsters about failure721 DownReveal answer → Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth921 DownReveal answer → Put off a lot of individuals touring 14622 DownReveal answer → Maya ___, American author and poet best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings722 DownReveal answer → European bird also called a yaffle1524 DownReveal answer → End being bowled over about a new fad524 DownReveal answer → English mezzo-soprano and music professor who was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 20111425 DownReveal answer → Expression of sadness upset hearts? Nonsense426 DownReveal answer → 1979 British war film starring Roger Moore, Telly Savalas and Elliott Gould1427 DownReveal answer → Puppet characters created in 1955 by Jim Henson728 DownReveal answer → Actress who played Nyssa, a companion to Doctors Tom Baker and Peter Davison in the TV series Doctor Who1133 DownReveal answer → Swedish chemist and philanthropist who invented dynamite1134 DownReveal answer → A soup containing rice noodles that is a popular street food in Vietnam340 DownReveal answer → Island in the Azores with a military air base841 DownReveal answer → Character played by fictional actor Rainier Wolfcastle in The Simpsons642 DownReveal answer → ___ Island is an island in the River Thames at Twickenham that was a major jazz and blues venue in the 1960s644 DownReveal answer → A finger-shaped cake of choux pastry named from the French for lightning645 DownReveal answer → See 17946 DownReveal answer → Fictional brand of beer in The Simpsons449 DownReveal answer →

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