Geeky new year resolution 🤓 - Stop paying Google and Adobe for overpriced services I don’t use most of Google was easy to replace ✅ but Adobe I’m finding a bit scarier… anyone here walked away from an Adobe subscription? @petermoorefuller.bsky.social was it you that posted about this recently?

So I actually posted two new puzzles today due to a numerical celebration coinciding with a date celebration, and this Mini slipped down the homepage pretty quickly. But it’s a fun way to spend a few minutes, I think 😁

Yes yes I know I’ve already published one today but #reasons 😆 www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3000 – Mysterious spy Ruth Hertz conceptualized this (7,6,5,8) Thanks to those who inadvertently challenged me / tested / helped with the timing, you know who you are 🤩

My ‘smart’ bathroom scales have just asked me to confirm that it’s definitely me since the reading is so much higher than the last time I weighed myself #rude

🏆 Clue contest No 37 🏆 Submit your best cryptic clue for RESOLUTIONS using the link below. www.mycrossword.co.uk/contests/37

Happy New Year everyone, here’s a mini crossword outlining the year ahead - sample clue: November: a quiet rest (3) www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/196 Thanks as ever to the superlative @mycrossword.co.uk 🙌

All is quiet

I’ll tell you what though, this bit between New Year and Christmas doesn’t half drag… 🫤

Happy New Year from the Future! 2026 is great so far, quite a lot of champagne and cheese 🥂🧀

2025: - got crosswords published in Inquisitor, Guardian Genius, Gnomon and Unch (big thanks to @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social, @alanconnor.bsky.social, @juffowup.bsky.social and @wyrd.systems for taking a chance on me) - helped to launch Unch! - hit 150 puzzles on MyCrossword (minis helped 😆) 1/2

Does anyone have time on their hands RIGHT NOW to do a quick test on a puzzle with a ticking clock deadline? ⏳ (very minor shenanigans, mostly pretty accessible)

Eric Morecambe lived in the house over the road from me several years before I was born

Both delighted and proud that my 100th puzzle on MyCrossword is also the first in the new collaboration between mycrossword.co.uk and fifteensquared.net. The puzzle can be found here: www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/1 I hope you enjoy it.

The Merrinium™ is the perfect time to pre-order your copy of Unch issue 2 - you know it makes all sorts of sense 👍

**Constant Money Timezone – Ep. 66** In which we enter a Constant Money Timezone, turn bioluminescent, slap your thighs, and consider wind chimes in a new light. === If all that sounds absolutely peachy to you, please click play: […] https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/12/28/constant-money-timezone/

Lots more festive puzzles got published after this one so in case you missed it here’s mine, if you’re looking for something with mild shenanigans to pass half an hour* on Boxing Day * solving times vary

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all got the traditional gift of personalised coffee beans 😆

🎵 So here it is… 🎶 My Christmas #cryptic #crossword is now up! - Get good rest (5) - A hundred snakes eating a thousand biscuits (8) - To work! (4) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2974 My compliments of the gorging season to one and all 🍗🍷

🎵 So here it is… 🎶 My Christmas #cryptic #crossword is now up! - Get good rest (5) - A hundred snakes eating a thousand biscuits (8) - To work! (4) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2974 My compliments of the gorging season to one and all 🍗🍷

A new Platypus has arrived on @mycrossword.co.uk 17 setters have written lovely clues, such as - Last bits of mixed herb stuffing to go inside turkey (5) - Providing weapons to suppress the French is dreadful (8) - Candytuft is submerged by Italian river with the passing of time (6) Check it out!

Tango returns in the Times QC today, with clues including: Fling a menu, furiously expressive (10) Solve it in the paper or here: www.thetimes.com/puzzleclub/c...

Delighted to be back as Bard in the @the-independent.com today. puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... Big cheese beat restriction, having discovered tax not applicable (3,6) Very impressive bit of extreme picknicking (4) Here’s the family engaged in some extreme picknicking on Skye.

If you like cryptic crosswords repost this

I'm back as Weatherman in the Toughie today, with clues including: Wrong copper parts in an old car (10) www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...

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Yes, I only published one a couple of days ago - but there’s a good reason (no prizes for guessing)… - Covered in mud around outside of shoe, causing distress (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2951

Yes, I only published one a couple of days ago - but there’s a good reason (no prizes for guessing)… - Covered in mud around outside of shoe, causing distress (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2951

Suddenly got curious about where people put their Unch stickers from issue 1 😁 Mine are on my crossword clipboard 🤓, my printer and my small box of random charging cables

Suddenly got curious about where people put their Unch stickers from issue 1 😁 Mine are on my crossword clipboard 🤓, my printer and my small box of random charging cables

Very sad to hear of the shocking death of Rob Reiner, genuinely one of the greatest, most underrated film directors. The run of films he made from Spinal Tap to A Few Good Men is *incredible*

🎶 It’s the most Wonderful time of the Weeeeeek 🎶

New #cryptic #crossword by me - and a relatively accessible one too, I think? (no special instruction shenanigans!) A couple of sample clues: - Turning over, exhausted lover is inhaling wife's wind (5) - Husband with four inches (4) [note these are fictional 😆] www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2943

New #cryptic #crossword by me - and a relatively accessible one too, I think? (no special instruction shenanigans!) A couple of sample clues: - Turning over, exhausted lover is inhaling wife's wind (5) - Husband with four inches (4) [note these are fictional 😆] www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2943

Will stream this tomorrow if anyone can bear to wait until then! (Or if you find your solving experience is enhanced by watching us do the same thing you've already done but much more slowly) #CrypticSunday

I can confirm that the thematic puzzle is VERY exciting. Like you wouldn’t believe. I’m excited in advance FOR you 🤩

I set the #cryptic #crossword in today’s The Independent. Solve it for free online here(select 11th Dec): https://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent?puzzleDate=20251211

Hmm. Has Bluesky just started asking “What’s up?”, or have it always done that and I’ve only just noticed? 🤔 Either way someone should tell them that in British English that means “What’s wrong?” I feel the urge to just reply “Nothing mate, I’m fine, why do you ask!” 😊

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I presume I get some sort of commemorative badge or similar to celebrate the fact that the legendary Phi mentioned me in one of his blog posts (the bit in brackets right at the end 😁) phionline.net.nz/setters-blog...

I’m delighted to report that my friendly, feathered alter ego Loon makes another appearance in the Times Quick Cryptic slot today. A slightly tricky one judging by the early SNITCH. #cryptic #crossword

Hey did I tell you I’ve got a puzzle in the next issue of Unch? I’ve got a puzzle in the next issue of Unch. But don’t let that put you off! 😆 Order it anyway 👍 unchcrosswords.com

Pleased to soon be making my Unch debut amid these fine folk. Pre-order to avoid missing out! #cryptic #crosswords https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rdlatved4vzndf75wg2culva/post/3m6rte55pfs2z

Sly & The Family Argument #XmasBands

This was fun 👍

Nice timeline synchronicity just now #cufflinks 😁 @dnatkinson.bsky.social @tpgrammar.bsky.social

Not sure if this is a really bad typo or very dark humour 😳

New Midweek Mini - a crossword of many parts! www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/180

New Midweek Mini - a crossword of many parts! www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/180

I know it’s only the 3rd 😆 but has anyone tried my advent calendar themed puzzle yet? Curious as to how it’s going down… [ Note for anyone that does Inquisitor - there is a (coincidental) passing resemblance to Phi’s recent ‘Advent Calendar’, although mine is a little more straightforward! ]

While you’re waiting for Unch Issue 2, please enjoy these photos of Unch Issue 1 from all over the world 😁