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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · Sep 9

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a man in a suit and tie is saying oh my god okay it 's happening .

Alt: Michael Scott (US Office) saying oh my god okay it's happening .

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Liari @liari.bsky.social · 50m

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LIVE: The Times Crossword Championship 2025

YouTube video by Times News

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 1h

Clever chap!

Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 1h

Me looking at the Listener

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 2h

"Seven and a half million years," said Deep Thought. Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other. "Seven and a half million years...! they cried in chorus. "Yes," declaimed Deep Thought, "I said I'd have to think about it, didn't I?"

Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 4h

Fantastic news! Nice one @petermoorefuller.bsky.social 🎉

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 4h

In addition to our daily mini crossword, @economist.com now has a weekend 15x15 cryptic. Try your hand at this one, set by the magnificently monickered Playfair (@petermoorefuller.bsky.social)

www.economist.com/interactive/...

The Economist's 15x15 cryptic crossword grid

Across clues:
Fare for voyage once taken from Shanghai to Osaka? (4,4)
Somehow Germans see inadequacy (10)
Manager acquiring first bit of intelligent office equipment (6)
Foolish setter’s anger about European Commission (8)
Disgusting thin porridge unfinished by certain people (8)
Admiral’s command to provide weapon to a US court official (6)
Cool place to keep bits (4,6)
Flipping allegiance to secure vote to leave (4)
Possesses dresses but not a shred of gingham (4)
Relating to pressure from erratic mob on the move (10)
Major issues in verbal contract for loparite? (6)
Card game where black six is wild (8)
Relax, time available includes an extra date (1st of Nov) (4,4)
Scruffy boat and Royal Navy ship interlocked - handles awkwardly! (6)
King and Playfair on motorway North with consort in a terrible way (10)

Down clues:
Mysterious object regularly spotted in outflow (3)
Belief in know-nothingism holding back sharp tool (5)
Dramatist’s horse getting despondent (7)
One let a man in lycra out? That’s gutsy! (10,5)
Grab ice, crushed, as protection for 5d (7)
Back working with “company men” in Montana - I can’t talk about it (2,7)
LIV Golf and friends developing feature for hi-tech carts? (4,7)
Hardworking US rider pulled muscle in overseas contest right after 2016 Olympics (4,7)
City leaders in annual meeting still terribly angry about uprising (9)
Everyone in favour getting party decoration (7)
On the whole, Playfair interjects in a slightly wet fashion (7)
This could be called offensive, almost, and very loud (5)
Little sibling’s world turned upside down (3)

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Sitter Crosswords @sitterxwords.bsky.social · 23h

Hope a ceasefire secures this? (5) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 1d

🎉🎉🎉

Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever wanted to get into cryptic crosswords but didn't know a way in... this was me a few months ago!

But @v21.bsky.social intro'd me to Minute Cryptic, then @martinpi.bsky.social & I started doing Guardian Quick Cryptic (where they explain the conventions), then Quiptic, & now full Cryptic

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Henri @henriwords.com · 2d

Might get this review of my Guardian Genius puzzle framed 😆

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 2d

This is a good claim to fame!

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Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much to @willsnow8.bsky.social for solving my crossword puzzle at www.twitch.tv/contocrosswo...!

contocrosswords - Twitch

I solve puzzles from mycrossword.co.uk, often on a Wednesday, late morning.

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 3d

I see what you did there

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The Void ザ・ヴォイド @thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Oh, is it… err… September already? 😉#cryptic #crosswords #1across

September issue of 1Across: puzzles by Eclogue, Araucaria, Gollum, Pendorne, and Doc.

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 4d

Having opened this up and had a good thumb through, I can confirm this seems like an EXCELLENT book and I'd highly recommend it to anyone into #cryptic #crosswords.

Interesting behind-the-scenes stuff as well as 90 puzzles (mostly standard, but some fun-looking barred ones too).

Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 4d

Got my copy! 📚

A book, on a table. The book is called "All Squared, A Life in Crosswords" by Tom Johnson

Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 4d

Got my copy! 📚

Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 4d

Oh gosh. I see what you mean.

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Ryan Patrick Smith @writerlyryan.bsky.social · 5d

Making my Cryptic Crossweird debut today! I hope fans of #cryptic #crossword #puzzles will consider subscribing to solve my and others' work: www.patreon.com/cw/CrypticCr...

Sample clues from my puzzle:
5A Clownish activity out of Quantico (5)
10A Small subatomic particle often overlooked (5,2)

A 13x8 cryptic crossword grid (a lattice of black and white squares). It's titled "Pets in Hats," was written by Ryan Patrick Smith, and was published by Cryptic Crossweird.

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Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that I'll be spending my birthday day off from work streaming a solve of DASH 12 tomorrow on www.twitch.tv/thatcrypticguy.

I'll still be solving cryptics starting at 9 Eastern that night, too! Catching up with stuff from dilly, Jake A, nate, Dylan, PiGuyN and the two latest Crossweirds.

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social · 5d

So as to manage my sleep better, I will likely be doing a shorter Tuesday evening stream, but adding a second evening stream on Wednesdays or Thursdays. I have Cohen's AVCX, Yingst's "Figure Eight" (from Gnomon #3), some WSJ cryptics from Dean Felch, and the latest Mossberg in my queue.

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Henri @henriwords.com · 5d

🥁🥁🥁 I set the October puzzle in the Guardian’s Genius series under my new setting name ‘Odo’

Ever since I started crosswording it’s been my ambition to get into the Guardian, it’s always been ‘my paper’. Many thanks to @alanconnor.bsky.social for the opportunity

www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2...

Genius crossword No 268

Deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT on Saturday 1 November. You need to register once and then sign in to theguardian.com to enter our online competition for a £100 monthly prize

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 6d

I stumbled upon this wonderful, extremely niche essay about poetry, close reading, odd fads, T.S. Eliot, animal imagery, and the infamous cryptic crossword setter Torquemada: publicdomainreview.org/essay/beastl...

Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword

Just a few years after The Waste Land appeared — a poem whose difficulty critics compared to some “pompous cross-word puzzle” — Edward Powys Mathers (alias: Torquemada) pioneered the cryptic: a puzzl...

publicdomainreview.org

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Norbert Natvig @norwegiannaturist.bsky.social · 6d

How would you rate your cryptic crossword skills?🤔😁

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Lowdown Cryptic @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social · 6d

I have a new #cryptic #crossword out today – my fifth puzzle for The Browser 😀 I'll post a few clues this week...

Sadly, weekly cryptics in The Browser will wrap up at the end of this year ☹️ DM me for details on how to get the puzzles

Thanks to long-time editor Dan Feyer and all the test-solvers!

The Browser Crossword
Cryptic #241 by Larry Kline
October 5, 2025 - edited by Dan Feyer
3 cryptic clues from the crossword:
You have to fill it during long rides (4)
U.S. anthem is played with gusto (10)
Browser crossword constructor and editor ultimately in error (7)

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 6d

Gutted to read about this in last week's update. Just printed yours out, & looking forward to it :)

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 6d

It's not just me with a new cryptic on MyCrossword this weekend! We'll be solving a couple live at 12 noon, set by Umpire @mpcryptics.bsky.social and Flush @4flush.bsky.social #CrypticSunday
twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Unch @unchcrosswords.com · 7d

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Peter @dasjarg.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...

You may CLAIM to be a nerd, but if you're not into cryptic crosswords then frankly I doubt your commitment to the nerd cause.

Help (that’s a clue)! Can you name the Guardian’s missing mystery crossword setters?

A prisoner and a heart surgeon – plus a clutch of teachers and comics … We’ve found names, photos and life stories for nearly all the Guardian’s compilers since the beginning of cryptic time. Please h...