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•Cryptic Crosswords at https://mycrossword.co.uk/tpgrammar •🧩&🎧: https://youtube.com/@tpgrammar •also sometimes: https://crosshare.org/tpgrammar

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 4d

Greetings from NJ. ☕️ Try out a kooky one:

S + 10n (after $-making meeting) (7)

G + R + G (5)

Perhaps Soros's arm suppressing discourse essentially to create high-risk zone (2-2)

Ass hole (5)

Penniless Odo embracing New Jersey after British 'old city' greeting from Henri (7)

etc. Thank you.

Mini crossword No 145 · MyCrossword

Solve Mini crossword No 145 on MyCrossword. 7x7 grid with 8 clues by tpgrammar. Published Tue 7 Oct 2025. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1h

XXX nurses made out (4) 🫢

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1h

Fun, thank you

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 3h

Ha! Appropriately circuitous, I’d say.

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 10h

😎

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 11h

Here is an un-Cryptic, i.e., a cryptic crossword stripped of the wordplay portion of each clue.

Definitions only. 🎬

Filmmaker Tribute

Celebrating Andrei Tarkovsky, one of humanity’s greatest filmmakers. For the CRYPTIC CROSSWORD version of this puzzle, please go here: https://mycrossword.co.uk...

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 16h

I was happy to get two for the price of one

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 17h

Cryptic indeed

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 17h

Mildly interesting. I had the strange experience of waking up to this. The puzzle was changed overnight 😀

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 23h

For competitive anagrammers

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. And happy Friday (ie, New QC Day)

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1d

In fact, I like the QC’s so much that I made one of my own in tribute: crosshare.org/crosswords/C...

Check it out if interested 🧩

Quick Cryptic (Guardian-Style)

Please enjoy this tribute to The Guardian's "Quick Cryptic" series. **TODAY’S TRICKS**: Each clue includes ONE of the following: **ANAGRAM** - An anagram of th...

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1d

…Video concept (and hours of amateur AI noodling) by Tommy Jones.

AI was not used to write any element of this material.
This song appears courtesy of espresso. Also, I own it.“

Major earworm, human sweat, skill, knowledge, AI-enhanced.

See for yourself what you think.

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1d

To complicate one’s feelings toward AI

”This song has been written and composed organically. Each note, chord, melody and lyric was written by me, then tracked and performed by me. All the coffee was consumed by me. AI was then applied to complete mastering, reproduction and the final product….

Ballad for the Cursed Mannequin - Halloween Music

YouTube video by Tommy Jones

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the best

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tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 2d

“smooths“ was supposed to indicate evens, I think.

Newer version here:
Bounty hunter’s first rifle pressed against Kevlar (7) 🤷‍♂️

tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social · 2d

I think it was one year ago today that I wrote my first ever cryptic clue — for the word HARVEST (the same word as this month’s MyCrossword contest:
mycrossword.co.uk/contests/34)