Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Friday, 18 July 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Demanding, like a royal (6) ASKING
5 Edit colourful show (6) REDACT
8 Base of statue in Leeds apt, perhaps (8) PEDESTAL
9 Traps lacy curtains (4) NETS
10 Fish caught by heart (4) CHUB
11 Suffers while America backs marks (8) SUSTAINS
12 Greedy person leaves pet for gold coin (6) GUINEA
13 A judge’s job is difficult (6) TRYING
15 Act of resorting to something on golfing stage (8) RECOURSE
18 Ceremony is correct, we hear (4) RITE
19 Closing hut, you grab waste pipe (4) TUBE
20 Twice exclude Olympic finalists? That’s cruel (8) BARBARIC
21 Decree that horrid nation is not odd (6) ORDAIN
22 What may grow from Maoism (6) MIMOSA

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Number Clues Answers
2 Building in terminus revamped for Scottish team (13) STENHOUSEMUIR
3 Frozen little rabbit gets a sweet treat (4,3) ICEDBUN
4 Proceed to watch, it’s said, what sailors do (2,2,3) GOTOSEA
5 Dramatic parts played in Tyrol escape (5) ROLES
6 Girl in London, naturally (5) DONNA
7 Shake it, a non-elastic whip (3-1-4-5) CATONINETAILS
13 The more complicated proposition (7) THEOREM
14 Adjust my radar beam (7) YARDARM
16 Letter from some gazette (5) OMEGA
17 Steal popular bird (5) ROBIN