Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Friday, 5 July 2024
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Across
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convince possibly Red Sea up (8) | PERSUADE |
| 5 | A long time initially always gets everybody settled (4) | AGES |
| 9 | Stone taken from ring given to friend (4) | OPAL |
| 10 | About fifty wrongly accused in blind alley (3-2-3) | CULDESAC |
| 11 | Be author of western ceremony (5) | WRITE |
| 12 | Sketch slippery customer returning to sheltered side (7) | LEEWARD |
| 13 | Comical points cause entanglements (13) | COMPLICATIONS |
| 18 | Offering impossible for teetotallers? (8) | LIBATION |
| 19 | Presumably the boss has one! (4) | HEAD |
| 20 | Nothing less about nothing? It’s inauspicious (7) | OMINOUS |
| 21 | Some Carib sentiment expressed by playwright (5) | IBSEN |
| 22 | Write one’s name in the designated place (4) | SIGN |
| 23 | Sameness of tiny diet (8) | IDENTITY |
Down
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Grass from a poster (7) | ESPARTO |
| 3 | Put lips thus to separate (5,2) | SPLITUP |
| 4 | Betrayed as look-alike went over to the other side (6-7) | DOUBLECROSSED |
| 6 | Postage for secret police (7) | GESTAPO |
| 7 | Wise half yields and formally withdraws (7) | SECEDES |
| 8 | Arrival of van Ted crashed (6) | ADVENT |
| 13 | Hardened to everything in the company going to America (7) | CALLOUS |
| 14 | Crowding wildly round gin spilt by exploding bomb (7) | MOBBING |
| 15 | Liquid preparation applied to lion (6) | LOTION |
| 16 | Live there, wearing distinctive clothing (7) | INHABIT |
| 17 | Set earn maybe the closest one (7) | NEAREST |