Metro Cryptic Crossword July 5 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on July 5 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Adding to drinking when not having starter
The answer is: upping
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Popular loud performance, to tell the truth
The answer is: infact
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Huge carriage caper
The answer is: gigantic
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(9)
Changed mode of protest
The answer is: demo
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(10)
Long skirt from endless saying
The answer is: maxi
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(11)
Rowdy pal developed verbal wit
The answer is: wordplay
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(12)
Only me to depend on
The answer is: merely
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(13)
Material taken out of a brickyard
The answer is: fabric
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Southern Cross is represented as cutting implement
The answer is: scissors
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(18)
Even Dublin has a bone
The answer is: ulna
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(19)
Religious leader in shop, open
The answer is: pope
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Drunk embraces boy, not large, at dusk
The answer is: twilight
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Minister entertained by Uncle Richard
The answer is: cleric
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(22)
Former European politician takes time to be excused
The answer is: exempt
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Academy where soldier found some fish
The answer is: privateschool
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(3)
Figure capturing popular fancy
The answer is: imagine
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(4)
Understand there's a passage, and escape
The answer is: getaway
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Suffer at home with snappy dog
The answer is: incur
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Bored with being sated?
The answer is: fedup
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Closeness of adjunct joining vessel
The answer is: companionship
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(13)
Christmassy four grabbed by Shakespearean fool
The answer is: festive
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(14)
Wound round cross, after gold compound
The answer is: bauxite
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(16)
Pierce small fruit
The answer is: spear
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(17)
Work on muscular twitch of the eye
The answer is: optic
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