Bard's turn in the Indy today.
π Catchphrase from heavy-going books, setter falls for solver in the second (2,2,2,3)
π Briefly fume before violent rumble (3,7)
πͺ¨ Loose rock formation in dangerous creek (5)
Play for free!
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#cryptic #crossword #puzzle
Marchβs Clootie #cryptic #crossword is connected to a sports event π
𧩠Championship team Anistonβs excited about (3,7)
"oh, i thought you said just east of Torquay"
Grateful to have set todayβs Guardian.
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Back in the Independent today.
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Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 4 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk:
www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...
I really enjoyed today's Independent crossword set by Quince, particularly:
π Quince's second part's in Hamlet β heβs playing patriarch (10)
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Puzzles like this don't come along every day!
Beyond chuffed to be back in the Indy as Magus. My tin hatβs on β is yours?!
Warning: hipsters lifted by US federal agents β¦ (6)
β¦ one after another for speaking out can be put in prison (6)
Trump wants one head of BBC arrested by Christmas (5)
#cryptic #crossword
Irish cityβs workers take indirect route? (9)
Reasonable to run away (5)
This and more nonsense in my puzzle in the Independent today.
#cryptic #crossword
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Perhaps Trump, Epstein and Andrew repeatedly stripped to get massage (9)
In the Indy again, free at puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... #cryptic #crossword
you did at least one of Frank Paul's quizzes during lockdown, didn't you - he must be on the same stuff, amazing quizzes every week.
We fought the greatest war in history, one that left countless millions, killed, starved, abused and traumatised precisely because idiot leaders insisted that there would be great advantages in controlling the incredible natural resources of other countries.
If you've packed the Christmas decorations away in the loft, done all the crosswords in the print media and you find yourself at a loose end, there *is* a Stamp in the Independent today.
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Very happy to be back in the Independent with a crossword today.
I wrote it in 2023, when the world champion at 24ac wasnβt so famous and the brothers in 21dn weren't talking!
Devious new clue following edit (9)
Harry owes cash for present (8)
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With regard to getting answers, new year, new you? (11)
Setter becoming single β time to lose weight? (4)
Bury playwright, Harold, without his head? (5)
Dice Quiptic today π²π₯° Keen for these to be accessible as a next step from the Quick Cryptic, so feedback very welcome!
#cryptic #crossword
Itβs a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
A bit of a melancholy song
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Delighted to be back as Bard in the @the-independent.com today.
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Big cheese beat restriction, having discovered tax not applicable (3,6)
Very impressive bit of extreme picknicking (4)
Hereβs the family engaged in some extreme picknicking on Skye.
some houses, i mean, clearly far fewer than before
all this thread is like it is a thing of the past, but presumably this still happens in houses - or does everyone actually smoke outside now, even at home?
Hard on the heels of yesterdayβs excitement, Iβmο»Ώ delighted to be back in the Independent today. Clues include:
At Arsenal, United fan starts to dance so wildly it makes ground shake (3,7,5)
Help oneself to sonβs chips (5)
#cryptic #crossword
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I set the #cryptic #crossword in todayβs The Independent. Solve it for free online here(select 11th Dec): https://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent?puzzleDate=20251211
Maybe 8 out of 10 Cats ended prematurely, in for broadcast (8)
It's a pleasure, as always, to set The Independent #cryptic #crossword, especially one with such a lovely palindromic number. I hope it brightens your day!
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The lovely @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (and he wonβt mind me saying that as heβs not REALLY on here) has got some pallets of this diamond (by which I mean excellent and harder than rock) puzzle back from the Unbound catastrafuck. He got zero from them for reasons. buy this and he gets deserved cash!
I set today's Independent puzzle - but I won't make a song and dance about it.
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Chris Lancaster, the Telegraph's puzzles editor, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease last year, and is fundraising for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle - please donate if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in todayβs @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Very pleased to make my debut in the Times Quick Cryptic today! Hope you enjoy it.
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
At least you've crossed out his name to spare his blushes.
