Many thanks to all at 3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk for a super event at the w/e, I was honoured to be presented with the magnificent RPM Trophy for 3d puzzle design! The puzzle itself will appear in the 2027 calendar. The calendar helps RNIB & Children In Need - hugely worthwhile so please do support!

Thank you for all the lovely comments! 🥰🥰 Just a reminder to please comment on 225 if you wouldn’t mind - they’re kindly supporting the featured crosswords and it’s good to show that the blogging is appreciated, show it’s worth keeping it going! Thank you! www.fifteensquared.net/2026/05/18/m...

Delighted to have my puzzle ‘Seasonal Games’ in the prestigious #Inquisitor slot in @theipaper.com today Many thanks to @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social and team, and I hope anyone who tries it enjoys it ☺️

I am all kinds of excited to say that my latest puzzle is the Featured Crossword on MyCrossword this week 🤩 Sample clue: “How to front a Slade tribute band” - Observer (8) Big thanks to @cranberryfez.bsky.social and @mycrossword.co.uk www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/9 #cryptic #crossword

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 6 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk: mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...

Hello! I have just published my third crossword on MyCrossword. Huge shoutout to @cranberryfez.bsky.social for the extensive help in testing and editing. mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3256 Enjoy! Business with assortment of rare rum (7) Bled after taking recalled medicine declared unsafe (9)

Listener Videos are back with a brilliant puzzle by @cranberryfez.bsky.social Early AGC candidate this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVUZ...

Many thanks to Chalicea for a super blog of my recent Listener debut "Fragments", on fifteensquared: www.fifteensquared.net/2026/03/20/l...

A good time to revisit an old Fez?Just a reminder that I commented on this puzzle: "Sean Penn a shoo-in for Best Supporting?" 😜 #oscars @onebattlemovie.bsky.social www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2783

New Fez ... a centenary 🎉 Is artificial intelligence essentially replacing the book? (6) Gold vase inlaid with second-rate copper (6) I go with pork ribs to follow starter of cured fish (9) At Raider's @mycrossword.co.uk - it's a blast! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3218

@mycrossword.co.uk's latest 'Featured' puzzle is from the ever-entertaining Baldur: www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/6 And nicely blogged by Leedsclimber over at 225: www.fifteensquared.net/2026/03/09/m...

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 5 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk: mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...

New Fez – The Guardian are calling it "pure, pure pleasure"* He's never taken seriously (7) Caught one enjoying an ice cream with alcohol (6) Experimental composer of music, a genius (4) At Raider's magical @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3173 * the theme, not the puzzle 😕

This week's Listener, #4909, is "Fragments" by Cranberry - thrilled to make my debut there 🙂 Many thanks to Roger, Shane and all the team!

New Fez – The Guardian are calling it "pure, pure pleasure"* He's never taken seriously (7) Caught one enjoying an ice cream with alcohol (6) Experimental composer of music, a genius (4) At Raider's magical @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3173 * the theme, not the puzzle 😕

Many thanks to Bert & Joyce for super blog of recent Cranberry IQ#1947 "Four-Letter Word" www.fifteensquared.net/2026/02/24/i...

New Cranberry today: "Four-Letter Word", #Inquisitor 1947 in @theipaper.com. Many thanks to @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social & team!

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...

Glad to have set MyCrossword’s Featured Crossword #4 with clues including: Suspended when investigation's head probes (2,3) Unattractive Conservative posing no threat (9) Close item worn formally? Quite the opposite! (7) Solve here: www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/4

New Fez. You don't need to be afraid ... He's given tips to young journalist on Evening Standard (3,3) Restraining large dog that's usually on a lead (4) Northern Irish settler finally thrown in cell (6) On Raider's fab @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3096

New HenriWords email has just gone out with a free barred thematic #cryptic #crossword puzzle called ‘Hobby Horse’ 🐴 If you’re a subscriber, check your inbox* 📨 * and/or your spam folder, I don’t know how twitchy your spam filter is…

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 3 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...

I set today’s Inquisitor crossword which you’ll find in #iWeekend @theipaper.com

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 2 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting... 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Part 2 of my blog looking at how & why cryptics work is now up at @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting... 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰 🦆 🐰

A new setter on MyCrossword? Not exactly. Hat tips to my co-conspirators @henriwords.com @postmarkcryptic.bsky.social @cranberryfez.bsky.social & Gennaro, and huge thanks as always to @mycrossword.co.uk #cryptic #crossword www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3028

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Following on from Raider's excellent advice at @mycrossword.co.uk, I've started a new blog series looking at how and why cryptics work: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting... Hope it's useful / interesting!

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Following on from Raider's excellent advice at @mycrossword.co.uk, I've started a new blog series looking at how and why cryptics work: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting... Hope it's useful / interesting!

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.

If you like cryptic crosswords repost this

www.fifteensquared.net/2025/12/17/c... 👀

This writer of crosswords has an appropriately wordy new Mini on @mycrossword.co.uk (3) This writer is a writer of certain poetic verses (6) This writer, Welsh, though familiar is one I've ultimately never even bothered with (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/171

I wrote a blog post for @mycrossword.co.uk about how setters can identify and calibrate how difficult (or otherwise) their own puzzles are: www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/the-dif... If you’re a setter, an aspiring setter or just curious as to how these things work - give it 4 minutes of your time! 😊

New Blancheflower. Possible earworm consequences. Good boots to wear in London Marathon (4) Farage regularly perceived to possess face of one? (4) Top Geordie comprehensive reportedly, pet (10) On groovy guy Raider's bumper @mycrossword.co.uk www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2828

Happy Halloween 🎃

A trip to the cinema with the new Fez, sample clues: Put last of shopping into blue plastic bag (5) Clothes, not Pete's but ... (4) Declared Bible was wrong (7) On Raider's blockbuster @mycrossword.co.uk www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2783

Yay, just arrived, a post-lunch Unch! Really impressive layout & looking forward to solving 😁 (Note for anyone brave / foolish enough to attempt my Cranberry puzzle: barred thematics usually have a title that relates to the puzzle & may even provide help ... and the title here should be "Unch #1")

Loopy from Pegg, again (4) (Ref. @simonpegg.bsky.social: "I've started doing a lot of cryptic crosswords of late, and have just stumbled across a doozy of a clue. Presented here for your own frustration: 'Muzzle a cuckoo' (4)")

New Fez, as sort-of promised to @liari.bsky.social a while back, via @guineverecryptic.bsky.social Short run through middle of woodlands makes you happy (6) Keep out of Latin class (5) Ice is cracking (5) At Raider's fab @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2703

If you enjoyed today's #cryptic #crossword by Anto in the G (www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...) you might like the slightly tougher "Obscurities?" by Fez at @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/1718

Very impressive from Panthera 😁

📢 Pre-orders coming soon! We're launching a #CRYPTIC #CROSSWORD magazine! We'll be showcasing new setters as well as people already published in places like the Independent, Guardian and Telegraph. Make sure you're in the loop by signing up at unchcrosswords.com

Mini-Fez, welcoming new setter Phaedrus @rufushound.wtf to @mycrossword.co.uk In audition, are you following American singer Wainwright? (5) Reasonable making second hot dog? (5) www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/107

Are You ____ ______? I set today's new Fez @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2632 Clues include: Turned out Uma & John messed up with dancing, edited in Tarantino movie (6,9) Search Internet for cutesy stuff on cycling (6) Share with journalist (5) No spoilers, ta!

Are You ____ ______? I set today's new Fez @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2632 Clues include: Turned out Uma & John messed up with dancing, edited in Tarantino movie (6,9) Search Internet for cutesy stuff on cycling (6) Share with journalist (5) No spoilers, ta!

Do any of you lot do cryptic crosswords? I wrote one last night and I'd be delighted if folk wanted to have a stab at it and give me some feedback? I just did it on paper, so I'll have to type it up but will send out to anyone who fancies a stab. Feel free to RT or pass on to the CC fan you love

"The Comeuppance of the God Squad", a mini-story by Fez: From beginning to end, unfinished article – a crude preliminary sketch, reportedly oblique – leaving Church angry about the contents, ultimately; notwithstanding, ... ... to be continued at @mycrossword.co.uk : www.mycrossword.co.uk/mini/92

Hot dog! New Fez ... African folk maybe playing drums with Wilco (5,5) Lays on ground, not about to get aboard ship (5) Ultimately, big boy's happy (4) On the 'fab @mycrossword.co.uk: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2592

Many thanks to Duncan Shiell for a super blog of the recent Cranberry Inquisitor (#1915), Circle Line/Central Line over at 225: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/07/15/i...

New Cranberry, "Circle Line/ Central Line" in @theipaper.com this weekend. Many thanks to @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social & team 🙂