Metro Cryptic Crossword May 22 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on May 22 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Take in muscles or brawn at first
The answer is: absorb
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Henry leaves port for a shady place
The answer is: arbour
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(8)
Songwriter misled Cyril first
The answer is: lyricist
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(9)
Some quite mundane article
The answer is: item
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(10)
One upper-class fool
The answer is: unit
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(11)
Experimental apparatus to check the Underground?
The answer is: testtube
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(12)
Dog set about heavy food
The answer is: stodge
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(13)
African city where animal has ingested argon
The answer is: harare
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Sheets bend out of shape round track
The answer is: bedlinen
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(18)
Solution heard at landing place
The answer is: quay
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(19)
Transport returns to shop
The answer is: mart
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(20)
Italian wine, in trial, was the most flavoursome
The answer is: tastiest
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(21)
More distorted in my recollection
The answer is: memory
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(22)
End piece of toy slide loosens and gives way
The answer is: yields
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Making a polythene bed is unacceptable
The answer is: beyondthepale
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(3)
Failed to include glove in dictionary
The answer is: omitted
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(4)
British tilers coming out to show indignation
The answer is: bristle
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(5)
Singers lost a composition
The answer is: altos
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(6)
Assembled by the Italian, still externally
The answer is: built
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(7)
Shameless about drab user-names
The answer is: unembarrassed
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(13)
Dear saint taken in by righteousness
The answer is: honesty
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(14)
Need about 25 sheets of paper
The answer is: require
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(16)
Free hire travel
The answer is: letgo
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(17)
Smart non-drinker in any organisation
The answer is: natty
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