Metro Cryptic Crossword July 28 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on July 28 2026.

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Total Clues
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Total Across
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Total Down

Clues Across (10 total)

(1)
Upset by record played after midnight?
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Twice Nigeria hosts ancient race
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Wilder and rearing to go?
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Something huge to wear spoiled on the gallant (3-6,3)
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Hear about promotion of capital city
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Winter Olympian, swimmer, right?
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A tensile soil mixture producing scented unguent
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Former empress annoyed artisan
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Withdraw, exhausted, to a place of seclusion
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Clues Down (14 total)

(1)
Raised platform for short flower
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Screen ruined Reynolds' third landscape
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First of old part of building now due
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Unusual pastel paper fastener
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Go back with key to hunt around for diary
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Model with lofty part of leg
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Speaker starts yelling at private chapel
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New clue, try 'viciousness'
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Maybe Ted isn't one treating canines
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Gift in butter I spread around
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Return of vague aura in the sky (3-3)
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Use a razor in Rosebush Avenue
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Run away; it's not bad!
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Step out and be a nuisance
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