Metro Cryptic Crossword March 20 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on March 20 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 10
- Total Across
- 14
- Total Down
Clues Across (10 total)
(1)
These parrots have flown to high level
The answer is: stratosphere
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(8)
Sicken buddy following snake's disembowelment
The answer is: appal
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(9)
Get better work as an upholsterer
The answer is: recover
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(10)
Parthian peer replaced as one likely to succeed
The answer is: heirapparent
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(12)
Saint outside extremely religious room
The answer is: vestry
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(14)
Full-impact female trouble inside (4-2)
The answer is: headon
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(17)
See fluttering redhorn on odd flowering shrub
The answer is: rhododendron
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(21)
Coax West to pay attention to the French
The answer is: wheedle
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(22)
Catcall from short woman, I suspect
The answer is: miaow
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(23)
Danish war wrecked everyone's old boundary
The answer is: hadrianswall
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Clues Down (14 total)
(1)
Large piece of small research room
The answer is: slab
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(2)
Put down and iron again?
The answer is: repress
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(3)
Roofer left during row
The answer is: tiler
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(4)
Does away with the scuffles
The answer is: scraps
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(5)
The acre could become another land measurement
The answer is: hectare
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(6)
Reportedly be a critic for light entertainment
The answer is: revue
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(7)
Harsh-sounding framework
The answer is: grating
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(11)
Daunt with article you and I finished first
The answer is: overawe
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(13)
Put in a fresh demand for instrument minus case, initially
The answer is: reorder
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(15)
Ten in play, very small scene
The answer is: diorama
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(16)
Species that officer left out
The answer is: genera
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(18)
Musical drama – finale of <i>Rigoletto</i> pear-shaped
The answer is: opera
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(19)
Drops from hovels
The answer is: dumps
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(20)
Nothing in boring tool missing (inits)
The answer is: awol
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