Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Thursday, 23 October 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Usual partner becomes spiritual (12) SUPERNATURAL
8 Operating is funny, but not before midday (5) USING
9 Say no to a drop (7) DECLINE
10 Fruit to drop down for bird (8,4) MANDARINDUCK
12 Evangelise when fruit found round river (6) PREACH
14 Avoid being next to overtake (6) BYPASS
17 Former vehicle having admirer on the blower (9,3) EXTRACTORFAN
21 Wavy lines in note made to stretch (7) TENSILE
22 Run into armed takeover with illness (5) CROUP
23 Even so, always the more? (12) NEVERTHELESS

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Number Clues Answers
1 Bunny’s end featured in press cutting (4) SCUT
2 Archbishop, stiffly formal, took food (7) PRIMATE
3 Strict US soldier allowed in free (5) RIGID
4 Dreads awful snakes (6) ADDERS
5 Weird being reckless with money? (7) UNCANNY
6 Farewell to something cast in gold (5) ADIEU
7 Yours truly to seek out tank top, being most unassuming (7) MEEKEST
11 Penalty messed up on many occasions? (7) APLENTY
13 Insects under tea cup (7) CHALICE
15 Trendy as a priest not finishing poem (1,2,4) ALAMODE
16 The way good person takes tree out (6) STREET
18 Under emotional strain in past, say (5) TENSE
19 In Peru, cheap pleated frilling (5) RUCHE
20 Work stirring soup (4) OPUS
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