Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Friday, 8 August 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Three schools sent out hanging frame (7-5) CLOTHESHORSE
8 Adolescents throw knight in river (5) TEENS
9 Brought back new prison officer to be sketched again (7) REDRAWN
10 Environmentalist identifies the good gardener’s talent (5,7) GREENFINGERS
12 Join with others in a swimming lesson (6) MINGLE
14 Pink-eyed animal seen through practical binoculars (6) ALBINO
17 Transmit key blame to that female hospital worker (12) RADIOGRAPHER
21 Longing not to start making money (7) EARNING
22 Cutting is onerous with no leader (5) AXING
23 The hen – reared abroad in various places (4,3,5) HEREANDTHERE

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Number Clues Answers
1 A section of traffic, it yielded in town (4) CITY
2 Two cricketing terms go on too long (7) OVERRUN
3 Owns note on speed (5) HASTE
4 Conflict plentiful on street (6) STRIFE
5 Number, perhaps, making racket during spoken exam (7) ORDINAL
6 Stick with lines for scoring (5) STAVE
7 Having problems with a points failure (2,1,4) INASPOT
11 Slowly appears with eye-opening mixes (7) EMERGES
13 Like a big cat, one disturbed in row (7) LEONINE
15 Some hitches I met in returned list (7) ITEMISE
16 Beginning to love trendy equipment inside (6) ORIGIN
18 Lament Reg and I’d composed (5) DIRGE
19 Heavenly body had no energy in the factory (5) PLANT
20 Not all over, good upbringing for giant (4) OGRE