Metro Cryptic Crossword June 5 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on June 5 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Sour, making one twitch
The answer is: acetic
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(5)
Turn to list before film's over
The answer is: rotate
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Sweet couple heard to fall (4-4)
The answer is: peardrop
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(9)
Poet not allowed to enter, we hear
The answer is: bard
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Shop contracted to return most piled?
The answer is: deli
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Dance venue is all right in prosperous time
The answer is: ballroom
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(12)
Government unit loses part of the Bible
The answer is: regime
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(13)
Assimilate joke heard after I'd turned back
The answer is: digest
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Shiny lime talc shaken up
The answer is: metallic
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No show for some food
The answer is: nosh
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(19)
Rough attempt at a lunge
The answer is: stab
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(20)
Number somehow reliant on music producer
The answer is: clarinet
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(21)
Appeared to notice me with daughter
The answer is: seemed
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(22)
Archdeacon in diocese in a fair way
The answer is: evenly
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Battered unfinished Mercedes the men swap for drink
The answer is: cremedementhe
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Interim alterations to railway stations
The answer is: termini
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(4)
Sailor in cruel wreck can be healed
The answer is: curable
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(5)
Drive away the Spanish salesman first
The answer is: repel
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(6)
Drum roll started after boat capsized
The answer is: tabor
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(7)
Colour slow-mover's very bad experience
The answer is: tortoiseshell
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(13)
Stop batting, say?
The answer is: declare
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(14)
Real dodgy engine units inside
The answer is: genuine
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(16)
Blank book, one with tracks?
The answer is: album
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(17)
Interwoven in lilac edifice
The answer is: laced
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