The Sun Crossword September 25 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword September 25 2025 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 56 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#

An opening in stone (5)AGATE5Across1 Chalcedony (5)AGATE5Across1 New sin site to do with Pope Sixtus (7)SISTINE7Across4 Michelangelo's chapel (7)SISTINE7Across4 Plunder piled so haphazardly (7)DESPOIL7Across8 Ravage or rob (7)DESPOIL7Across8 Boost: God is English! (5)RAISE5Across9 Salary increase (5)RAISE5Across9 Undressed, when suggested? (5-4)ROUGHHEWN9Across10 Unrefined (5-4)ROUGHHEWN9Across10 Dorothy to start with dessert on table (3)DOT3Across11 Speck (3)DOT3Across11 Quiet moment in amusing routine (6)SHTICK6Across12 Comedian's gimmick (6)SHTICK6Across12 Solicitor wants something to eat in pub (6)BEGGAR6Across14 Mendicant (6)BEGGAR6Across14 Small equine (3)ASS3Across17 Some massive idiot (3)ASS3Across17 Forsaken (9)ABANDONED9Across19 A new don in a bed deserted (9)ABANDONED9Across19 Poet William (5)BLAKE5Across22 Artist in Blackpool? (5)BLAKE5Across22 Hearing device (4-3)DEAFAID7Across23 Lacking sound sense? This could help (4,3)DEAFAID7Across23 Carry out (7)EXECUTE7Across24 Top Somerset banker, shrewd (7)EXECUTE7Across24 Public commotion (5)SCENE5Across25 Landscape glimpsed reportedly (5)SCENE5Across25

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Birch relative (5)ALDER5Down1 Tree more bare: bark initially removed (5)ALDER5Down1 Violent attack (7)ASSAULT7Down2 A saint will protect biblical leader in onslaught (7)ASSAULT7Down2 Historical period (5)EPOCH5Down3 Strange echo round piano for long time (5)EPOCH5Down3 Put (away) (6)SALTED6Down4 Like some peanuts, nuts lasted (6)SALTED6Down4 Injecting tool (7)SYRINGE7Down5 Shot putter? (7)SYRINGE7Down5 Homeric epic (5)ILIAD5Down6 Old story in Swahili adapted (5)ILIAD5Down6 Jumper always having hole in it? (7)EVENTER7Down7 Versatile horse (7)EVENTER7Down7 Shuffle along (7)SHAMBLE7Down12 Dishonour surrounding bishop left in lurch (7)SHAMBLE7Down12 Clubs dislike gold in house (7)CHATEAU7Down13 Castle in France (7)CHATEAU7Down13 Rev with beer finds an edge at sea (7)GUNWALE7Down15 Boat part (7)GUNWALE7Down15 Sinner, sick, to cash in chips (6)BADDIE6Down16 Film villain (6)BADDIE6Down16 Quarrel over eastern flood (5)SPATE5Down18 Increased quantity (5)SPATE5Down18 Contracts Slade renegotiated? (5)DEALS5Down20 Trades (5)DEALS5Down20 Avoid (5)DODGE5Down21 Cunning trick in Kansas City (5)DODGE5Down21

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Sun crossword published on Thursday, September 25, 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.