Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Friday, 29 August 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 A celebrity holding first love is fiery (6) AFLAME
5 Most dreadful garment envelops a student (6) VILEST
8 Useless to resist artist (8) ROSSETTI
9 High but improbable (4) TALL
10 Thailand almost bordering on a continent (4) ASIA
11 Be seen at reconstruction for missing person (8) ABSENTEE
12 Those who speak of a crime novelist? (6) SAYERS
13 Not totally apologetic, on ice as role model (6) ICONIC
15 Children’s holiday left out amid hurt (4-4) HALFTERM
18 Follow egghead, old Venetian (4) DOGE
19 Gloomily caught when reversing vehicle (4) LIMO
20 Green bear breaks bone (8) VERTEBRA
21 Guard seen initially by doorway (6) SENTRY
22 Part of jacket becoming wrinkly (6) LINING

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Number Clues Answers
2 Illusion fails, as do rope tricks (5,8) FOOLSPARADISE
3 Satisfy a desire to cook sausage (7) ASSUAGE
4 Catches parents out (7) ENTRAPS
5 Inner tubes to have in shop display (5) VEINS
6 Reveal memo left lying around (3,2) LETON
7 Refuse to operate this implement (9,4) SOLDERINGIRON
13 I am married, verbal and unprincipled (7) IMMORAL
14 My dear friend is veteran runner, perhaps (3,4) OLDBEAN
16 Veneer starts rusting in stone vessel (5) FRONT
17 Old resentment about emissary (5) ENVOY
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