Proud to be third up in @mycrossword.co.uk’s featured puzzle series!

Holy shit! The crossword award, The Orcas, added cryptic categories this year and The Gnomon got three nominations! Give a donation of any size to the Trevor Project and receive a pack of 81 puzzles! (Nine of these are variety cryptics and eight are vanilla cryptics.) Do it!

The next featured puzzle is up: www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/2

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!

Anyone use the Chambers Mac app? Any good? The three reviews in the app store are mixed and several years old…

With so many people taking up setting recently, I’ve put together a quick guide to help you get started. www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/becomin...

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.

A busy weekend featuring two family birthdays, a West End show and a Christmas party, but in between we're looking forward to crosswords by @iguesscryptics.bsky.social and @henriwords.com. Join us at 12! #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Bittersweet to announce that @jessshulman.bsky.social and I did the second-to-last Browser. Edited as always by the wonderful @danfeyer.bsky.social www.thebrowser.com/crossword

Any Mac users doing the fidgeting necessary to run Crossword Compiler? Wondering how much of a headache it is

We only have time for one crossword today on #CrypticSunday and that will be by boznut, join us at 12 to help solve! twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Happy to see I contravened almost every note in MyCrossword’s new editorial guidance with last year’s “cryptic crimes” puzzle (and then some) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2161

If you subscribe to my emails already then my free Christmassy puzzle ‘Seven Gifts So Fancy’ should have landed in your inbox today - I hope you enjoy it 🎁 If you’re not on the mailing list but you’d like a free copy of the puzzle, send me a DM To get future free puzzles sign up at henriwords.com

Forgot to mention that I’m half of Crenditi… can’t wait for Unch 2!

🚀 New Release 🚀 www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/introdu...

I'm very excited about the excellent puzzles we've got lined up for Issue 2, coming out in January. Setters this time will be: ALP Gennaro Catnip The Void Heron Ruskin Umpire Crenditi Bard Henri That's 8 standard cryptics, an alphabetical jigsaw, and a barred thematic. Fun! unchcrosswords.com

Issue 2 available for (pre)sale now: unchcrosswords.com

Gnomon issue 4 is coming in one week, with five more variety cryptics. Now featuring more blocks than ever! With puzzles by @longyfan.bsky.social @matttheshirt.bsky.social @therackenfracker.bsky.social and @juffowup.bsky.social

We're spoilt for choice on MyCrossword this week! Have picked two cryptics to stream from setters we haven't attempted in a while: Fez (as Blancheflower) @cranberryfez.bsky.social and Longyfan @longyfan.bsky.social. Join us at 12 noon GMT! #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Been a few months… www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2832

Gnomon's second full issue is out now to subscribers, with four new variety cryptics! www.gnomoncryptics.com Puzzles from @longyfan.bsky.social (Roland Ingram), @henriwords.com (Rob Townsend), @juffowup.bsky.social (Andy Yingst), and Roger Wolff!

Do not go out in the midday sun today - stay in and do some cryptic crosswords with us instead. We have MyCrossword puzzles set by of @longyfan.bsky.social and @ouroborosop.bsky.social this week! #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Been a while since you solved one of mine? Been a while since I posted! Here we go. Thanks as ever to @mycrossword.co.uk and to @liari.bsky.social, @juffowup.bsky.social, and Elderism and friends for testing! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2547

live now solving quartiles/@officialgocomics.bsky.social/ @puzzmo.com by @norahsharpe.bsky.social and @tlmberwolves.bsky.social/ @gnomoncryptics.bsky.social by @longyfan.bsky.social ! www.twitch.tv/crossweirdtv

Check out the brilliant minutecryptic.com because it’s doing a great job of getting people into cryptics (and it’s me today 😊)

I have been toying with the idea of setting up a crossword magazine thing. Analogue ftw. If you are interested in any way please drop me a line here: letterbird.co/magazine I’ll gather email addresses and keep you in the loop. (a bit vague right now so please be patient! 😅)

Tonight, a stream I've very much been looking forward to: I tackle the new variety cryptics from The Gnomon! (www.gnomoncryptics.com) Come watch me be bewildered and astonished on Twitch at around 9:00 Eastern, www.twitch.tv/thatcrypticguy.

Here’s another #minutecryptic ! www.minutecryptic.com You can support Minute Cryptic by solving on the site and clicking through to the video :)

Love reading the comments on the Minute Cryptic videos. So many people just getting into cryptics and being delighted/frustrated as they go! My clue today: minutecryptic.com

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

Excited to solve and proud to be in the first full issue of The Gnomon!

New HenriMini!™ mycrossword.co.uk/mini/10 – Book, a new one out by female politician, talks about the French – Reveals acceptable face of naturism and lives freely – Long-haired Asians are discovered importing German Ford part, bottom of clutch section Not sample clues; that’s the whole puzzle 😆

Love the new mini grids @mycrossword.co.uk added to the site. Hopefully they’ll make constructing a bit more accessible. Less daunting at least. Here’s mine: Unsophisticated chortle when reverend’s hat falls off during transubstantiation (2-4) mycrossword.co.uk/mini/11

Happy to be on minutecryptic.com again today :)

There are *so* many fine crosswords available that I really can't squeeze them all into a #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service. Still, come noon I'll be going for MyCrossword puzzles by @tpgrammar.bsky.social, @adamleepotter.bsky.social & @longyfan.bsky.social: www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

It’s been a while but… One for your Saturday afternoon: Senior wiping bottom half after playing in bath (5) Store ladders to be moved (4,5) Thanks as ever to @raidercrossword.bsky.social for mycrossword www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2435

Happy to be on minutecryptic.com today!

The second (and final) free preview for the Gnomon is up now, with two new puzzles. Please enjoy "Owed to Pixar" by Roger Wolff, and "Theme and Variations #1" by Andy Yingst. www.gnomoncryptics.com/preview-2/

Puzzle! Anna eats a couple of doughnuts after last of ice-cream – she had two cones (7) Bass player’s run off with the microphone (4) Thanks as always to @raidercrossword.bsky.social for MyCrossword www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2337

New puzzle up. Thanks as ever to @raidercrossword.bsky.social for the amazing MyCrossword! Route to wedding via hearing I’m going to (5) One in French hotel longing for divorce? (7) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2321

Happy Oscars day! For the second year in a row, @longyfan.bsky.social and I wrote you a special Oscars night puzzle to solve at The Browser! Just For You!!! We hope you think it is neat. www.thebrowser.com/crossword/

New puzzle up :) E.g. Standing, taking taste of chilled wine (4) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2296