Another cryptic crossword of mine up on mycrosswords! Some favourites: "Hard to find how cricketers go bald (4,2,3,6)" "Huffing wolf brought about movement of air (9)" "Play the faithful's humiliation for Spooner (3,6,2,3,5)" www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3098

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Some personal favourite clues include: "De-casually-ath? (2,7)" "Crack the Titanic or the Lusitania (but not both)? (3–5)" "Fond gentleman to caress lady's opening, formally (4,3,6,6)" (Now updated with minimal typos!)

hello, i have started posting cryptic crosswords on mycrossword, if you're into that sort of thing xoxo more soon! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3076

[wiping the gunpowder from my hands] now THAT is a high-quality petard! I feel sorry for whoever ends up getting hoist by that thing!

Whatever he had like 12 followers

I like to think I'd be good on The Traitors but if I was selected I would fuck it up before the blindfold came off. Claudia would squeeze me on the shoulder, I would immediately scream "I'M A TRAITOR I'M SORRY" and throw up right on the round table as a moody version of "Oops I Did It Again" plays

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

I finally figured it out

historically accurate☑️

Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)

tired of games adding unecessary stealth missions for no reason? Well im not! STEALTH CROSSWORD is out now✨ ComputerJames.itch.io/stealth-cw 🧩6 mins of Stealth Crossword Action! 👑Two endings ('caught' and 'not caught') 💻Play in browser

My annual holiday Wordplay Quiz is here! Every year I write a quiz full of dreadful puns, cryptic crossword nerdery, and dreadful puns, designed to be solved on the couch with your loved ones. Get the printable version for free at drive.google.com/file/d/1WZt4...

My annual holiday Wordplay Quiz is here! Every year I write a quiz full of dreadful puns, cryptic crossword nerdery, and dreadful puns, designed to be solved on the couch with your loved ones. Get the printable version for free at drive.google.com/file/d/1WZt4...

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Good King Wenceleslas looked out On the feast of Stephen He hates bad King Wence-more-more One day he'll get even

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

Happy Chris Morris was more prophet than satirist day to all who celebrate

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

I guess I am not the target audience but even then?

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I don't have an outlet for cryptic crossŵords at the moment so y'all must endure my clues: Well well well, young person is The Boss (11)

Would I enjoy a guided tour of Pompeii? Remains to be seen

do you think the nyt puzzles people saw the only connect wall about them

I am merely aiding the police in their inquiries, it is simply a way of passing the time for me, and the constables, they are gracious enough to accept my assistance, all unpaid, of course. If you, too, will humor me by joining the other guests in the parlor I would like to share some of my findings

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

yeah, i *am* enough 🥰

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Bonus: we created mix-and-match stickers of improv quotes by D&D alignment, tag urself etc x

SAPPY POST INCOMING Last Saturday we closed the 2025 NZ Improv Festival with Scene Painting, where we literally put paint on the stage at BATS (and then spent 4 hours repainting it black).

gender is a performance. and baby? this is improv.

Only Connect is back on BBC2 on Mondays! Here's one of mine from a recent episode – can you work out what comes fourth in this sequence?

My first novel is now out in paperback in the UK and it has a cute fresh cover. If you like your books more compact and purple then this is the edition for you!

There were two Australian citizens on this ship, Tan Safi and Robert Martin. @senatorwong.bsky.social where are you? Where is anyone from our government? A foreign army has abducted Australians trying to deliver aid and it’s radio silence.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

absolutely hate crowdfunding but a show i'm working on is going to auckland in a month's time and our boosted closes in 5 days and we're only halfway boosted is all or nothing too for funding so we lose it if we don't get to 100% www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/projects/colour-me-cecily-tamaki-makaurau

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Hello! This is my third and FINAL year of co-directing the New Zealand Improv Festival (alongside my dear friend @fauxparse). We've assembled a tremendously cool and exciting lineup of improv shows and workshops, including one of the biggest show concepts in my improv career.

one thing i would do with a lottery win is book @joshgondelman.bsky.social and @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social to do a double bill partly because they're amazing acts that would complement each other's styles mainly so we could call it Just Joshin' wait what's this red laser dot on my foreh-

love sxsw lineups cool queer indie singer. dynamic hip-hop/jazz outfit. steven ceo from cybertechdatamurdercorp. quirky filmmaker.

this week I got my first ever five star review!! if you're in sydney and want to get in on the closing night mischief, come down to the factory theatre at 8pm!! sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/grifted-talented

love sxsw lineups cool queer indie singer. dynamic hip-hop/jazz outfit. steven ceo from cybertechdatamurdercorp. quirky filmmaker.

Why do they call it cracking a semi when they could call it boner-petit?

Grifted & Talented opens next week in Wellington! If you want to see beautiful nonsense like this in person, book your tickets now! linktr.ee/griftedandtalented youtube.com/shorts/7qCUs...