The Independent Crossword September 26 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 26 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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Scottish river31 AcrossReveal answer → Heavy open vehicle43 AcrossReveal answer → Devious alteration127 AcrossReveal answer → Emphasise cutting first hair57 AcrossReveal answer → University’s new commotion about sources of private finance, usually troublesome98 AcrossReveal answer → Trade stoppage79 AcrossReveal answer → Quoted510 AcrossReveal answer → Diversify, disrupting average with it910 AcrossReveal answer → Complete set of books contributing to endless story511 AcrossReveal answer → Wall-painting611 AcrossReveal answer → Joke you are returning shows some preparation512 AcrossReveal answer → Snuggle613 AcrossReveal answer → Out of money? Never stop working914 AcrossReveal answer → Stout and wine likely to be emptied616 AcrossReveal answer → Distressed (Informal)516 AcrossReveal answer → It could be yellow, magenta or cyan, possibly617 AcrossReveal answer → Matters718 AcrossReveal answer → Part of the Bible1220 AcrossReveal answer → Rebuffed variable lines in sand leading to European complaint920 AcrossReveal answer → Gemstone421 AcrossReveal answer → And not322 AcrossReveal answer → Agreed to retain King after revolution - look522 AcrossReveal answer → Mostly felt bad about second passage523 AcrossReveal answer → Right to retain excellent framework for sporting venue925 AcrossReveal answer → Deeply explore feeling unhappy after exercises927 AcrossReveal answer → Relax with last of robbery money528 AcrossReveal answer →

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Expensive ban, keeping British out41 DownReveal answer → Habitual drinker51 DownReveal answer → Colour62 DownReveal answer → He’s to pay to get manipulated - in this?102 DownReveal answer → Dead skin73 DownReveal answer → Worthless, you grant, after review83 DownReveal answer → Commit crime - that is, against pinching article? On the contrary64 DownReveal answer → Perch54 DownReveal answer → Yank returned, having received liberal surplus45 DownReveal answer → Flawed95 DownReveal answer → No longer in trouble, receiving no calls?106 DownReveal answer → Make possible66 DownReveal answer → Bar Tennessee having internal state67 DownReveal answer → Hardship98 DownReveal answer → Recording missing release date? Evidence of inexperience69 DownReveal answer → Excellent712 DownReveal answer → Sonic scale rearranged in Stravinsky’s style1013 DownReveal answer → Metal stand614 DownReveal answer → Plumlike fruit615 DownReveal answer → Display areas work in inactive period1015 DownReveal answer → Spring flower517 DownReveal answer → Conservative to begrudge accommodating another in street of houses817 DownReveal answer → A poet welcoming love in a train?618 DownReveal answer → Corps cornered in amusing manoeuvre619 DownReveal answer → Talent519 DownReveal answer → Religious court ditching latest computer programs and other oddities621 DownReveal answer → Some poetical lessons recalled by Fitzgerald?424 DownReveal answer → Reduction in expenditure, importing large car part426 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Friday, September 26, 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.