Metro Cryptic Crossword July 21 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on July 21 2026.
- 24
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 10
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Hide ego in good sport
The answer is: skiing
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Gave an address to read out
The answer is: orated
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(8)
Happy I poured oil on flowers
The answer is: gladioli
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(9)
Peep at lines of cotton capsule
The answer is: boll
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(10)
Element, third unknown in carbon
The answer is: zinc
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(11)
Dessert for one sheep in new suit
The answer is: tiramisu
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(12)
Crowds at stores, we hear
The answer is: hordes
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(13)
Knight devoured groom!
The answer is: neaten
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(15)
Authorise account with direct movement
The answer is: accredit
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(18)
Time to broadcast piece of TV news
The answer is: item
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(19)
Copied a quiet journalist
The answer is: aped
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(20)
Story about king causes conflict
The answer is: friction
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(21)
Blemish on church is rarely encountered
The answer is: scarce
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(22)
Get Ray somehow to move round
The answer is: gyrate
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Clues Down (10 total)
(2)
Emerging from lido, peacock is multicoloured
The answer is: kaleidoscopic
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(3)
Dined out, eating duck innards when persuaded
The answer is: induced
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(4)
Found in parking lot, tissue that's in the throat
The answer is: glottis
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(5)
Rosie manipulated willow
The answer is: osier
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(6)
Record book
The answer is: album
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(7)
Fashion magazine wrongly reports me to northern town
The answer is: ellesmereport
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(13)
Zero sylph-like during Christmas drink
The answer is: nothing
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(14)
Pilot takes Asian leader by way of rocky peak
The answer is: aviator
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(16)
Two-way detection method
The answer is: radar
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(17)
Author to perish without one enemy
The answer is: defoe
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