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The Independent Crossword September 6 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 120 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 120 clues from the The Independent Crossword for September 6 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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Small vegetable31 AcrossReveal answer → Set of twenty53 AcrossReveal answer → Not extreme87 AcrossReveal answer → One having unhappy experience hasn't departed57 AcrossReveal answer → Second-hand48 AcrossReveal answer → Angelic youngster hugs the lady in charge88 AcrossReveal answer → Building design129 AcrossReveal answer → "Lettuce, me?" (Conservative great)69 AcrossReveal answer → One politician's a sex pest? Don't start, that's wrong810 AcrossReveal answer → Supreme Leader's content to live economically311 AcrossReveal answer → Jeering remark511 AcrossReveal answer → Time to get behind this prolific peacemaker?512 AcrossReveal answer → Home512 AcrossReveal answer → English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita1012 AcrossReveal answer → "All windmills evil" at first causing astonishment313 AcrossReveal answer → City in Volusia County, Florida, that is the headquarters of NASCAR and the Grand American Road Racing Association1213 AcrossReveal answer → So monster is rebuffed414 AcrossReveal answer → An ancient state in Italy north of the Tiber715 AcrossReveal answer → On purpose1216 AcrossReveal answer → American lager first produced by Carl Conrad & Co of St. Louis, Missouri in 1876916 AcrossReveal answer → Stomach turned by Head of State's jerks416 AcrossReveal answer → Ignoring Dead Sea's recurrent motif517 AcrossReveal answer → George Michael's third studio album, released in 1996517 AcrossReveal answer → Kingdom also called the Friendly Islands518 AcrossReveal answer → Without charge418 AcrossReveal answer → Again hiding one's prejudice419 AcrossReveal answer → Technical name for the big toe619 AcrossReveal answer → Blue gemstone819 AcrossReveal answer → One might be caught around centre420 AcrossReveal answer → 1960s American sitcom starring Elizabeth Montgomery920 AcrossReveal answer → Giant521 AcrossReveal answer → Dance (Informal)322 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet Iranian leader once avoiding America322 AcrossReveal answer → Nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter923 AcrossReveal answer → Guys are going for Nobel from the outset - one's perfect623 AcrossReveal answer → Back from Galapagos324 AcrossReveal answer → Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high625 AcrossReveal answer → Leon and Marc cooked French rice825 AcrossReveal answer → The nickname of Portsmouth FC626 AcrossReveal answer → Seat of government's ways of working - bully!627 AcrossReveal answer → Islanders' fees spent across bar829 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for an anemometer929 AcrossReveal answer → Petition over hiring queen for horseplay530 AcrossReveal answer → Parenthetical part of the title of an Andy Williams hit single with lyrics by Carl Sigman added to Francis Lai's instrumental theme from the 1970 film Love Story1331 AcrossReveal answer → Town in Campania that was the centre of Garibaldi's campaigns for the unification of Italy732 AcrossReveal answer → The cgs unit of magnetic field strength, equivalent to 79.58 amperes per metre734 AcrossReveal answer → Irish golfer who was Open Champion in 2007 and 20081736 AcrossReveal answer → Song by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life, celebrating the birth of his daughter Aisha1337 AcrossReveal answer → Home video game console released by Sega in 1998939 AcrossReveal answer → A 1977 UK number one single by Brotherhood of Man641 AcrossReveal answer → 1983 Michael Jackson single that reached number 3 in the UK chart642 AcrossReveal answer → Part of the body that includes the medulla oblongata and the pons944 AcrossReveal answer → The capital of Pakistan947 AcrossReveal answer → Province of the Roman Empire containing parts of modern-day Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy649 AcrossReveal answer → Steve ___, captain of the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004550 AcrossReveal answer → Group who won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid552 AcrossReveal answer → City in North Brabant in the Netherlands that is the home of Philips and DAF Trucks954 AcrossReveal answer → Genus of aquatic plants whose superhydrophobic leaves exhibit what is called the lotus effect756 AcrossReveal answer → The lowest temperature theoretically attainable1257 AcrossReveal answer → Village west of Chichester in West Sussex noted for its Roman Palace, a major archaeological site1058 AcrossReveal answer →

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Ferret round as down-and-out41 DownReveal answer → British wine retailer founded in Harringay in 198081 DownReveal answer → In proportion71 DownReveal answer → Means to rave over the Independent crossword's charms82 DownReveal answer → See 36 Across172 DownReveal answer → Terminate32 DownReveal answer → Drugs crazy83 DownReveal answer → Ancient Greek city famous for its austere way of life63 DownReveal answer → Motionless63 DownReveal answer → I keep freaking out over large shape-shifting creature64 DownReveal answer → Former member of Roxy Music who was one of the principal innovators of ambient music84 DownReveal answer → Top-order batsman64 DownReveal answer → Reject Macron's way - work with Spain and other countries65 DownReveal answer → English drummer and founder member of The Stranglers born Brian John Duffy in 193885 DownReveal answer → Fair95 DownReveal answer → Close46 DownReveal answer → Piece of embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long depicting the Norman conquest of England146 DownReveal answer → Sleazy place where rich man not getting head from Stormy46 DownReveal answer → Genus to which scops owls mostly belong47 DownReveal answer → ___ Field, home base of two Boeing VC-25A aircraft with the call sign Air Force One when the US president is on board78 DownReveal answer → See lame teaching fooled believers in this138 DownReveal answer → Bud __, stage and film partner of Lou Costello69 DownReveal answer → Large land mass910 DownReveal answer → See 141010 DownReveal answer → 1964 Richard Lester film featuring The Beatles1411 DownReveal answer → Even so, leaving first husband's hard512 DownReveal answer → Journey not requiring overnight accommodation713 DownReveal answer → Type of flat614 DownReveal answer → A part of Antarctica, between Wilkes Land and George V Land, under French sovereignty1014 DownReveal answer → Runs into golf champion showing dignity in victory?515 DownReveal answer → Occur615 DownReveal answer → Nobleman417 DownReveal answer → Buried person with honour - noted criminal on guard818 DownReveal answer → Doctor right - raised upsetting foot condition patient unable to fight819 DownReveal answer → An isolated, steep-sided, flat-topped hill in the western United States and Canada520 DownReveal answer → Focal point320 DownReveal answer → Underground vaults, especially those used for burials721 DownReveal answer → Dance top621 DownReveal answer → Binomial name for the coal tit922 DownReveal answer → As was lost election, extremely suspect622 DownReveal answer → In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world924 DownReveal answer → Unusual team game? Could be426 DownReveal answer → Swedish name for a commissioner who investigates complaints of maladministration927 DownReveal answer → A sudden violent or illegal seizure of government928 DownReveal answer → Decapitated trunk? Not exactly428 DownReveal answer → Jimmy Webb song that gave Glen Campbell a worldwide hit in 19681429 DownReveal answer → See 4830 DownReveal answer → County Cricket Club with three pears on its badge1431 DownReveal answer → West African republic on the Atlantic whose capital is Dakar733 DownReveal answer → 1990s BBC1 sitcom that starred Kevin McNally and George Cole335 DownReveal answer → A mountain nymph in Greek mythology538 DownReveal answer → American novelist, screenwriter and biographer who lost the 1941 Cincinnati Masters men's singles final to Bobby Riggs1040 DownReveal answer → West End restaurant founded in 1917 that has expanded into various places in the UK and Ireland643 DownReveal answer → English actor-manager and Mencap campaigner noted for his Whitehall farces844 DownReveal answer → Human Sesame Street character played by Will Lee from 1969 until his death in 1982845 DownReveal answer → Irish poet and dramatist awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1923746 DownReveal answer → Protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories648 DownReveal answer → Small town in Essex on the North Sea coast, north of Clacton and south of Harwich1550 DownReveal answer → The lowest adult male voice453 DownReveal answer → See 501555 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Independent crossword published on Saturday, September 6, 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.