It's a late entry for "My First Cryptic Crossword of 2026"
Sample clues:
Claims to program caught fish (7)
Kevin loses very badly with burly French character (11,4)
Master not half angry over unfaithful representative (7)
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3214
Yay!
As is traditional, after much checking before publishing, I have of course made a tiny change. (Just a quibble over choice of spelling that I thought I'd already done.)
It's a late entry for "My First Cryptic Crossword of 2026"
Sample clues:
Claims to program caught fish (7)
Kevin loses very badly with burly French character (11,4)
Master not half angry over unfaithful representative (7)
mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3214
I will say one thing: nothing demonstrates the value of military history, the staff and war colleges, and reading military theory like watching a war conducted by a bunch of guys who skipped all of that in favor of 'manliness' and push-ups.
Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for her religious beliefs, but eventually allowed to leave Sudan, owes her life and freedom in part to her Sudanese lawyer, Elshareef Ali Mohammed's LL. M. in International Human Rights, gained here in the UK (at the uni at which I then taught)
Labour's hostile attacks on migrants not only deny some safety, they deny people a future. Chevening Scholars are meant to be future world leaders. Labour's policies have never been about creating a "fairer system". They just want to prove that they can be nastier than the last government.
Everyone loves estate agents so this was a great idea for a stunt.
Tomahawk
See, my mistake there, whilst compiling my first cryptic crossword in ages, was thinking to myself, "This has been an easier process than usual."
An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.
Probably won't give it another go with her then 😅
I did wonder but then risked it anyway! 😬
10yo Tiny did normal bird stuff, and then directed Edgar Allen Poe towards appropriate help. And reacted to all the swears I didn't say out loud.
That's not the noise they made as they came down.
I pulled the lever.
Also no no no I *know* this is making me want to make a text adventure game but I have enough unfinished projects thank you
Please have a play. You are a raven. A creature of myth and legend... or just a big bird, your choice.
Eat the gods!
Dance with a Dracula!
Take Edgar Allan Poe to Alton Towers!
Ruin a Zumba class!
Drive the M4 w a mythic princess!
Get very lost & end up in the wrong game!
j2gb9g9f.play.borogove.io
So far I've done normal bird stuff and killed Edgar Allen Poe.
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
Maybe, don't really know how it works and also very very busy saying yes to too many things all the time!
ANDREW GARFIELD: 'The spiderweb of nature is what feeds my soul'
The most gloriously cheesy article teaser you'll ever see is on the cover of the Woodland Trust's Broadleaf magazine.
Purest, undiluted Bluesky
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Comprehensive education can easily be one size fits all, yes, but that's a political choice. A range of appropriate pathways that allow a more tailored approach to each child can exist in a single institution.
I went to a boys' Catholic grammar and it was toxic. And then I went to a mixed grammar for sixth form, which was a lot nicer, but I still don't think it did anything for me that couldn't have been done in a more egalitarian setting.
Ah but it *sounds* like a promise of social mobility, if you don't look to closely at it. Which is a large part of Farage and his ilk's shtick.
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.
