Metro Cryptic Crossword August 20 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on August 20 2026.
- 26
- Total Clues
- 13
- Total Across
- 13
- Total Down
Clues Across (13 total)
(1)
Vegetable to stick in sheltered place
The answer is: legume
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Take the Spanish coin
The answer is: nickel
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Member to provide weapons
The answer is: arm
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Recorder with Order of Garter, sir!
The answer is: registrar
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(11)
Almost obliterate <i>The Times</i>?
The answer is: eras
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(12)
Unusually, Brenda's ringing two Europeans in city
The answer is: aberdeen
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Being snappy, one bishop leads one to the altar
The answer is: irritable
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(18)
Make one melt with a drink
The answer is: lemontea
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(19)
It is bent on paying homage
The answer is: knee
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(21)
Italian detachment surrounding American liner
The answer is: lusitania
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(23)
Many unclothed in the middle
The answer is: lot
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Clothes the French jumble up
The answer is: garble
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It'll increase reactions in a frenzy, merely
The answer is: enzyme
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Clues Down (13 total)
(1)
The German follows meadow guide
The answer is: leader
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(2)
See my amusing confused effort in a hall
The answer is: gymnasium
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(3)
Transport going back up to shop
The answer is: mart
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(5)
Dedicate to fashionable writer
The answer is: inscribe
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(6)
Drink keeping its redness to begin with
The answer is: kir
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(7)
Wild cat grabbed one right by the throat?
The answer is: larynx
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Middleman's gone, we bet, blotto (2-7)
The answer is: gobetween
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(13)
Eastern bird to unite in perpetuity
The answer is: eternally
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(14)
Before birth, needing parental guidance?
The answer is: prenatal
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(16)
Lifer moved gold round US city
The answer is: oldlag
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Kindly chap the French follow
The answer is: gentle
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Curry favour with supporter about
The answer is: fawn
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(22)
Father almost gets a title
The answer is: sir
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