Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Friday, 22 August 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Spread tuna, be silly in club (6,6) PEANUTBUTTER
8 Former statute, correct in every detail (5) EXACT
9 Smith perhaps finds vase in unchanged situation (7) SURNAME
10 Large blended drinks for tennis match? (5,7) MIXEDDOUBLES
12 Architect by church gets the tool (6) WRENCH
14 Go late, terribly smoothly (6) LEGATO
17 Garden management sounds arrogantly superior over behaviour of social group (12) HORTICULTURE
21 Initially like recent changes to reading desk (7) LECTERN
22 Fifty in team inch along (5) SIDLE
23 Cyclists’ gear? (5-7) PEDALPUSHERS

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Number Clues Answers
1 Reportedly strain to see large jetty (4) PIER
2 Girl taking staple food is deadly sin (7) AVARICE
3 Release some mounties (5) UNTIE
4 Next to the said reserve team (6) BESIDE
5 Distress or utter agony (7) TORTURE
6 Message a mile off (5) EMAIL
7 Writes to one on retirement pay (7) PENSION
11 Wish Ali could translate language (7) SWAHILI
13 Strike right a fire-breathing monster (7) CHIMERA
15 A game contract (7) ABRIDGE
16 Hint about vessel producing vegetable (6) TURNIP
18 In Peru, cheap pleated frilling (5) RUCHE
19 Sat up with 1000s for jobs (5) TASKS
20 Catches alien between poles (4) NETS
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