Metro Cryptic Crossword Clues Wednesday, 2 July 2025

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Number Clues Answers
1 One makes them to compensate (6) AMENDS
5 Accountant, 51, needs firm material (6) CALICO
8 Headlong rush when steep dam collapses (8) STAMPEDE
9 Car almost causes takeover (4) COUP
10 Series covers Great Lake (4) ERIE
11 Colonise Pluto with ape, perhaps (8) POPULATE
12 Standard issue for minister (6) PARSON
13 Sordid attempt to pocket ridiculous wad (6) TAWDRY
15 Tyrant gets to almost turn investigators back (8) DICTATOR
18 Paintings, yes, are creative (4) ARTY
19 Food out west (4) STEW
20 Stoker upsetting Hugo inside carriage (8) BROUGHAM
21 Cat found in loo etc, round the bend (6) OCELOT
22 Unsettle noisy Arab leader (6) SHEIKH

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Number Clues Answers
2 Satirical time wrecked mercenary (13) MATERIALISTIC
3 Figures in the Old Testament (7) NUMBERS
4 Pinch fish returning to have extra time in bed (5,2) SLEEPIN
5 Squashed peach not expensive (5) CHEAP
6 Nearest pub in the neighbourhood (5) LOCAL
7 Retaliation offensive when playing Ludo, perhaps? (7-6) COUNTERATTACK
13 Fears model slips (7) TERRORS
14 Quarrel when rider starts to fiddle about (7) WRANGLE
16 To Welshmen, 50% is cloth (5) TOWEL
17 Gamble after it returned to Himalayan region (5) TIBET
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