Daily solution for the Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Wednesday, 13 August 2025. The Metro Cryptic Crosswords can get hard sometimes, with our help you will be able to finish even those tricky definitions.
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Across
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bed, with little hesitation, providing nonsense (6) | BUNKUM |
| 5 | Holds 1000 files (6) | GRASPS |
| 8 | Musical treat Poe composed (8) | OPERETTA |
| 9 | Northern English city making main part of a ship (4) | HULL |
| 10 | Son entered plane for a bit of fun (4) | JEST |
| 11 | Set off for school in time (8) | DETONATE |
| 12 | Note from singer heard (6) | TENNER |
| 13 | When I enter city without a problem (6) | EASILY |
| 15 | Acrobatic lice that jump (8) | ATHLETIC |
| 18 | Instrument of torture to split having lost head (4) | RACK |
| 19 | Dorothy embracing large fool (4) | DOLT |
| 20 | Capone acquiring weapons – that’s frightening (8) | ALARMING |
| 21 | Like kippers chopped please (6) | ASLEEP |
| 22 | Chaos when plant’s in front of border (6) | MAYHEM |
Down
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Modest nun’s pirouette is extraordinary (13) | UNPRETENTIOUS |
| 3 | Protein weaker at inner section (7) | KERATIN |
| 4 | Bullfighter drama to unfold (7) | MATADOR |
| 5 | Ogre from Georgian town (5) | GIANT |
| 6 | Very pale since having chicken (5) | ASHEN |
| 7 | Authorisation for take-off? (6,7) | PILOTSLICENCE |
| 13 | Cry out when I penetrate old shellfish (7) | EXCLAIM |
| 14 | Super starter awful – or delicious? (7) | SCRUMMY |
| 16 | Turning device puts first of lines on two articles (5) | LATHE |
| 17 | Walk noisily to the end of short incline (5) | TRAMP |