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The Sun Crossword August 13 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword August 13 2025 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 52 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#
English chap stirred tea to flow out (7)EMANATE7Across8 Issue forth (7)EMANATE7Across8 Afro-Cuban drum (5)CONGA5Across9 Dance can go wrong (5)CONGA5Across9 Commotion in field (5)SCENE5Across10 Public spectacle (5)SCENE5Across10 Casual worker set out in storm (7)TEMPEST7Across11 Cyclone (7)TEMPEST7Across11 Doctor seals test? That’s improper (9)TASTELESS9Across12 Lacking flavour (9)TASTELESS9Across12 Son, popular, gives offence (3)SIN3Across15 Moral crime (3)SIN3Across15 Isherwood's 1887 novel? (3)SHE3Across16 Feminine pronoun (3)SHE3Across16 Sentient (4-5)SELFAWARE9Across17 Conscious of Wales, fear getting thrashed (4-5)SELFAWARE9Across17 Go back from front? (7)RETREAT7Across20 Withdraw (7)RETREAT7Across20 Skivvy (5)SLAVE5Across22 Work very hard, invest, keeping pounds (5)SLAVE5Across22 Step (5)STAIR5Across24 One absorbed by Sun flight feature (5)STAIR5Across24 Ancestry (7)LINEAGE7Across25 Career with time reveals roots (7)LINEAGE7Across25

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
One-room residence (6)BEDSIT6Down1 Bidets ordered for small home (6)BEDSIT6Down1 Counterfeit (4)FAKE4Down2 Affected part of week after returning (4)FAKE4Down2 Pallor (8)PALENESS8Down3 Looking white as spleen explodes (8)PALENESS8Down3 Resolve dispute (6)SETTLE6Down4 Agree to take up residence (6)SETTLE6Down4 Dirty froth (4)SCUM4Down5 Horrible people: hundred in total (4)SCUM4Down5 Where bed is used near to collapse (8)UNDERSEA8Down6 Submarine (8)UNDERSEA8Down6 Plaid (6)TARTAN6Down7 Sailor Brown checked pattern (6)TARTAN6Down7 Ghastly plaster spread over cottage initially (8)SPECTRAL8Down13 Like a ghost (8)SPECTRAL8Down13 Final performance in bird calls (4,4)SWANSONG8Down14 Last appearance (4,4)SWANSONG8Down14 Disturbed rest aboard ship brings tension (6)STRESS6Down16 Strain (6)STRESS6Down16 Diminutive (6)LITTLE6Down18 Small untruth about teetotal Liberal (6)LITTLE6Down18 See rent? That's opening in fabric (6)EYELET6Down19 Fastening hole (6)EYELET6Down19 Some fear lecherous British peer (4)EARL4Down21 Lord Lucan, e.g. (4)EARL4Down21 Almost open a container (4)AJAR4Down23 Not quite closed (4)AJAR4Down23

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the The Sun crossword published on Wednesday, August 13, 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.