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The Independent Crossword September 28 2025 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Independent Crossword September 28 2025 answers. The Sunday puzzle has 61 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#
See noteWINDOWDISPLAY13Across1 Beautiful valley not enough for tyrant emperorTEMPE5Across7 Circle of lightCORONA6Across8 What deli may offer visiting prodnose down westPANCETTA8Across8 Small crustaceanSHRIMP6Across9 Promotion introducing love song and danceADO3Across9 ?FANLIGHT8Across10 Pass over Panamanian portCOLON5Across10 DryARID4Across11 Spooner’s suggestions are much better than cosmeticLIPSTICK8Across11 Kentucky folk musicBLUEGRASS9Across12 How hard, hiding large hooterOWL3Across12 The Sun’s as large when Earth’s eclipsedSOLAR5Across14 Trunks he’s thrown in for nothing in the price of suitCHESTS6Across15 Don’t read all of tense letterTAU3Across16 Comparatively modest height at which acrobat has no headHUMBLER7Across17 ?SHOW4Across17 ?CASEMENT8Across18 Roman speciality laid out on a gridROADING7Across20 Caught sight ofESPIED6Across20 ?REVEAL6Across21 Dark substance prepared by distilling saltTAR3Across22 VagueINDETERMINATE13Across22 Some of our thoroughbreds out of the frameFOURTH6Across23 Young people support couple holding handsTEENS5Across24 Mischiefmaker was irritatingATE3Across27 Author is apparently identifiable figurePENTAGON8Across29 Monster course dominated by standBRUTE5Across30 The first fifteen letters as well?TOO3Across31 Slimmed manner, not so round?LEANNESS8Across32 Spanish gentleman has cycled here from ScandinaviaNORSE5Across33

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Plaster-work crosses over with businessSTUCCO6Down1 One female crossword compiler, among othersAMELIA6Down2 Weather map lineISOBAR6Down2 Possibly vote against partyBEANO5Down3 Oddly amusingDROLL5Down3 Official quietly breaks into military areaINSPECTOR9Down4 ArgueWRANGLE7Down4 Place withinINSET5Down5 Dumb-ass guy disturbs writer somewhatMEATHEAD8Down5 MaybePERHAPS7Down6 Historic train terminus in Co. Durham – not Beds – carrying King northSTOCKTON8Down6 AxillaARMPIT6Down7 Take head off/tail off parrotPOLL4Down8 Disreputable personLOWLIFE7Down13 River DonWEAR4Down13 PlatformROSTRUM7Down14 Note: not a word – OED editor omitted partsSOH3Down14 SelectedCHOSEN6Down15 Poet wanted hug? He shunned embracesTEDHUGHES9Down16 BabyINFANT6Down16 Like the champagne that’s on ice, this is hisUNOPENED8Down18 Obtain by spongingCADGE5Down18 He’ll sing it through with a single exceptionBARITONE8Down19 Expert (Yiddish)MAVEN5Down19 Transported under cover, thus delivered?RAPT4Down20 Cut short energy supplyGAS3Down21 French poet read in French; read in translation about itELUARD6Down25 Born, then died, one no longer essentialNEEDED6Down26 Hill residents periodically cannot useANTS4Down27 Napoleon with energy climbing treeEBONY5Down28

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Independent crossword published on Sunday, September 28, 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.