Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Tuesday, 22 July 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 Way of printing behind the scenes (6) OFFSET
5 Online viewer has natural trap to get coat back (6) WEBCAM
8 Composing a piece about hospital while in pain (8) WRITHING
9 Cut off part of the harbour (4) DOCK
10 French priest always sought at Lourdes (4) CURE
11 Writer, for example, infiltrating suspect sites (8) ESSAYIST
12 Make fun of the first crockery collection (3,3) TEASET
13 Chaperone, English type, entertaining Conservative (6) ESCORT
15 Circle part of courtyard before declamation (8) QUADRANT
18 Swimming in fat, even socially? (4) OILY
19 Dust kicked about in breeding farm (4) STUD
20 Building entrance is easy target (4,4) BARNDOOR
21 Minister converts sprite (6) PRIEST
22 Cloud over hideout with old boat inside (6) DARKEN

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Number Clues Answers
2 Gold-digger preparing fourteenth run (7-6) FORTUNEHUNTER
3 Those posing as baby-minders? (7) SITTERS
4 Spear disturbed dirt on net somehow (7) TRIDENT
5 A long time after start of work, salary given (5) WAGES
6 Pal’s sprout to dry right out (5) BUDDY
7 Seat from dilapidated Lancaster dwelling (9,4) ANCESTRALHOME
13 Went in and made a record (7) ENTERED
14 Cowherd cooking soup (7) CHOWDER
16 Western city to avoid (5) DODGE
17 Superior, British in flying boat (5) ABBOT