Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Saturday, 9 August 2025

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Across

Number Clues Answers
1 Literary hitch as brows trickle feverishly (7,5) WRITERSBLOCK
8 Containing nothing yet MP is worried (5) EMPTY
9 I am married, verbal and unprincipled (7) IMMORAL
10 A tensile soil mixture producing scented unguent (9,3) ESSENTIALOIL
12 Boiling herd to assemble (3-3) REDHOT
14 Don’t start level, by way of European country (6) LATVIA
17 Romantic ride with noun left out, dear (6,2,4) TUNNELOFLOVE
21 TV figures staring oddly (7) RATINGS
22 A lass dancing dance on Strictly? (5) SALSA
23 Make a spicy T-shirt shrink (12) PSYCHIATRIST

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Number Clues Answers
1 Daughter follows little wimp (4) WEED
2 Obtruded when I’m sat (7) IMPOSED
3 Emerging first, variety of jaguar (1-4) ETYPE
4 Small leanings towards circus props (6) STILTS
5 Young sheep and girl dance (7) LAMBADA
6 Keen to know if America’s left unusual object (5) CURIO
7 Pilot to flick blank page (7) FLYLEAF
11 A politician’s after gold for public speaking (7) ORATORY
13 Old ice can spread in deep seas (7) OCEANIC
15 Six valid works for composer (7) VIVALDI
16 A bison runs to small tree (6) BONSAI
18 Paper money – not escudos therein (5) NOTES
19 Composer’s sound inventory (5) LISZT
20 Stop little Henry starting tantrum (4) HALT