Metro Cryptic Crossword May 3 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on May 3 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Letter, say, note given to parent with ailment
The answer is: eczema
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Now put about in residential area
The answer is: uptown
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(8)
Photographs stolen? One of them!
The answer is: snapshot
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(9)
Profit from vitamin-enriched drink
The answer is: gain
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(10)
Look closely at jetty, say
The answer is: peer
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(11)
Grand eel moved and got bigger
The answer is: enlarged
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(12)
Opposed to disorderly raves before start of evening
The answer is: averse
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(13)
Fatal dye lad mixed up
The answer is: deadly
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(15)
Changing duo's suit into books?
The answer is: studious
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(18)
Fool has to partake of exercise
The answer is: dope
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(19)
Spoil some interior detail with these paints?
The answer is: oils
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(20)
Lighted torch for Father Brown's assistant
The answer is: flambeau
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(21)
Hyde's Doctor J Kelly, perhaps
The answer is: jekyll
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(22)
Complete collections in which we find bonbons
The answer is: sweets
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Keep holding a commotion over noted college
The answer is: conservatoire
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(3)
Agent in Rome returned for a sovereign
The answer is: emperor
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(4)
Get a herb with hidden energy
The answer is: achieve
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(5)
Up to the moment peace-keepers fired up
The answer is: until
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(6)
Large cat making row round middle of night
The answer is: tiger
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Useless possession the WI ordered – charger?
The answer is: whiteelephant
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(13)
A month in Norfolk town causes consternation
The answer is: dismays
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(14)
A builder, nearly crazy, can be heard
The answer is: audible
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(16)
Messy study is not clean
The answer is: dusty
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Old king left with waste meat
The answer is: offal
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