Metro Cryptic Crossword April 22 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on April 22 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Babe, Omani, holds back minute organism
The answer is: amoeba
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Journey into London area to see band
The answer is: stripe
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Richard caught in tangled nets, in trouble
The answer is: stricken
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(9)
Some stop Alexander becoming washed-out
The answer is: pale
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(10)
Laze round middle of nothing
The answer is: zero
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(11)
Mention tie's knotted inside piece of meat
The answer is: noisette
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(12)
Company present will stick together
The answer is: cohere
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(13)
Get one's goat a weed
The answer is: nettle
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(15)
Cooked crumpets in the shade – all of them
The answer is: spectrum
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(18)
It's pleasant to be back in the cinema
The answer is: nice
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(19)
Some of the brainiest are a shower
The answer is: rain
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(20)
Prohibited said girl displaying handkerchief
The answer is: bandanna
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(21)
Those out of this world, in sale, perhaps
The answer is: aliens
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(22)
I, reportedly, allowed little hole in material
The answer is: eyelet
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Nacre can provide them real proof (6-2-5)
The answer is: motherofpearl
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(3)
Typical example of one volume on lengthened CD
The answer is: epitome
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(4)
As a neck breaks sideways
The answer is: askance
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(5)
Wrongdoing witnessed by one round a Biblical mount
The answer is: sinai
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Exercise after sport with European coin
The answer is: rupee
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Authorisation for take-off?
The answer is: pilotslicence
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(13)
Candidate, one worried about bomb
The answer is: nominee
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(14)
A winter manufacture of metal goods
The answer is: tinware
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(16)
Stick duck inside boat
The answer is: canoe
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(17)
Steals about Orient in garments
The answer is: robes
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