Metro Cryptic Crossword September 29 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Metro Cryptic Crossword published on September 29 2026.
- 28
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 14
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Artist in charge in route through ring
The answer is: picasso
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Commercial to choose to take on
The answer is: adopt
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Loafer left in dire trouble
The answer is: idler
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Searched around a house perhaps, that's full of ghosts
The answer is: haunted
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Someone required in union to get batsmen out
The answer is: bestman
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Immature swimmer always circling lake
The answer is: elver
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(12)
It could be the beginning or be my undoing
The answer is: embryo
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Short sleep in cosiest armchair
The answer is: siesta
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(18)
Raise one in the army
The answer is: hoist
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Awful slobs have order to prosper
The answer is: blossom
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Graduate encircling a menagerie, final check for weapon
The answer is: bazooka
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Little weight for cat
The answer is: ounce
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Metal, for example, turning colour
The answer is: tinge
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Teams essential to chapel evensong
The answer is: elevens
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Clues Down (14 total)
(1)
Penny inclined to be easily influenced
The answer is: pliable
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(2)
Quietens many with charitable gifts
The answer is: calms
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(3)
Steal fruit then you start to make cider
The answer is: scrumpy
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(4)
Readily available where palm is?
The answer is: onhand
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(5)
Ezra struggling, going round the bend, was blue
The answer is: azure
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Very English Tosca performance with sets of eight notes
The answer is: octaves
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(7)
Royal house in situ, dormant
The answer is: tudor
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(13)
Points to wartime ordeal for reindeer
The answer is: blitzen
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(15)
Form of an atom that's kept stoop crooked
The answer is: isotope
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(16)
Melissa straying, without direction
The answer is: aimless
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A school jacket nearly on fire
The answer is: ablaze
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(18)
Dress custom
The answer is: habit
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Reportedly shown up incorporating overused plot device
The answer is: trope
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Dressing evidently protects a superficial burn
The answer is: singe
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