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The Sun Crossword July 5 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword July 5 2025 answers. The Saturday 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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Across

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Rotters celeb backed (4)RATS4Across1 Rodents (4)RATS4Across1 Your Highness? (8)ALTITUDE8Across4 Elevation (8)ALTITUDE8Across4 Yankee with beard looked bored (6)YAWNED6Across8 Gaped (6)YAWNED6Across8 Motor that's good seen in E9 (6)ENGINE6Across9 Locomotive (6)ENGINE6Across9 Around Tyneside, suits will get perks (8)BENEFITS8Across10 Advantages (8)BENEFITS8Across10 Others unnamed in Goethe maybe (4)THEM4Across12 Not us (4)THEM4Across12 Dad, having been taken for a ride, took five (6)PAUSED6Across13 Ceased temporarily (6)PAUSED6Across13 About to introduce tax break (6)RECESS6Across15 Alcove (6)RECESS6Across15 Spelling contests (4)BEES4Across17 Notice bishop backed busy group? (4)BEES4Across17 Plastic cartridge (8)CASSETTE8Across19 Test case involved tape recording (8)CASSETTE8Across19 Empty tin goes inside barrel (6)VACANT6Across21 Unoccupied (6)VACANT6Across21 Putin's country (6)RUSSIA6Across22 USA sir? That could be another place! (6)RUSSIA6Across22 Liberated (8)RELEASED8Across23 Let out: or sublet maybe! (8)RELEASED8Across23 Understands (4)SEES4Across24 Observes bishops' offices (4)SEES4Across24

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Informed (5)AWARE5Down2 Knowing in Zaporizhzhia war extended (5)AWARE5Down2 Vocalists (7)SINGERS7Down3 Choristers maybe miscreants with a change of heart (7)SINGERS7Down3 Assistance (3)AID3Down4 Help domestic losing head (3)AID3Down4 Holds dear (9)TREASURES9Down5 Certain to be in tears breaking up valuables (9)TREASURES9Down5 Constricted (5)TIGHT5Down6 Mean to get wasted (5)TIGHT5Down6 Hoofers (7)DANCERS7Down7 Performers send car out (7)DANCERS7Down7 New cadet is in shows (9)INDICATES9Down11 Points to (9)INDICATES9Down11 Norm's girl appearing in time (7)AVERAGE7Down14 Mediocre (7)AVERAGE7Down14 Folds with firm pressure (7)CREASES7Down16 Regime initially brought in stops wrinkles (7)CREASES7Down16 Figure in good condition (5)SHAPE5Down18 External form (5)SHAPE5Down18 Claptrap (5)TRIPE5Down20 Gourmet finally ready to eat this? (5)TRIPE5Down20 Free (3)RID3Down22 Purge in Cambridge (3)RID3Down22

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the The Sun crossword published on Saturday, July 5, 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.