Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Sunday, 12 October 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Write badly, but son has swimming style (6) SCRAWL
5 Cut out tax (6) EXCUSE
8 About to expire when bone found in pile (8) MORIBUND
9 The Picts are somewhat heroic (4) EPIC
10 Style of house in Yosemite (4) SEMI
11 New peer, Liberal, showed the way, then forced back (8) REPELLED
12 Concurred it’s a selfish trait (6) AGREED
13 Drink cartel brewed (6) CLARET
15 Prohibited said girl displaying handkerchief (8) BANDANNA
18 Average request for help gets round (2-2) SOSO
19 Archaic word for ‘you’ found in courthouse (4) THOU
20 What’s left doesn’t need a memo (8) REMINDER
21 Twist when getting hundreds in pen (6) WRITHE
22 Pickle in the barrel is hot! (6) RELISH

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Number Clues Answers
2 Movement arranger to charge her, poor stray (13) CHOREOGRAPHER
3 Is returning surrounded by a number – that’s stupid (7) ASININE
4 Museum finally fitted with slats (7) LOUVRED
5 Arrive eventually with extremity in the air (3,2) ENDUP
6 Councillor has fish basket (5) CREEL
7 Invertebrate’s lack of courage? (13) SPINELESSNESS
13 Smooth-talking person, female singer holding arm (7) CHARMER
14 London team’s magazine (7) ARSENAL
16 Dishearten daughter and another relative (5) DAUNT
17 Runs amok with English hospital worker (5) NURSE
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