This week (13-19th Nov) is #Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️ It aims to highlight the issues faced by the #Trans, non-binary & gender-diverse community & leads up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance (#TDoR) on the 20th.

A new daily word game and it has cute animals. I'm powerless to resist. REUNION November 13, 2025 I solved it in 1️⃣9️⃣ moves! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉 www.merriam-webster.com/games/reunion

In a bold move, they've taken their inspiration from MFI bedroom furniture circa 1989.

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! 😊

The Seasonal Reposting Competition is coming! Return here on Friday for a chance to win a signed copy of one of my books ... For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 @theguardian.com #puzzles and the stories behind them: boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...

New blog post ✍️ 🧩 www.alyscummings.com/post/cryptic...

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

Cursed tinsel gymnastics from Amber and Nikita, not keen #scd #strictly

I like George but if Tess says the words 'content creator' one more time I will simply shrivel up and die, so I'm sorry, he has to go #scd #strictly

Love to see more of George's completely interchangeable friends 💤 #scd #strictly

I feel that Julian needs to match Balvinder's style and energy better, she's just a more subtle flavour than him #strictly #scd

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, which is somehow also 2001.

This conclusion is the best and only conclusion imo.

Honestly you can skip the missions and just cut straight to Nick eating mashed potatoes followed by absolute psychological warfare please #CelebrityTraitors

Why are @brianbilston.bsky.social's cats so engrossed? To find out, buy my books for the #crossword addict in your life: 50 @guardian #puzzles with the stories & ideas behind them, plus extra #clues & explanations of #wordplay - all booksellers or signed copies: boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...

Puzzle editing is all done for Issue 2. Thanks @archelina.bsky.social, @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social, @liari.bsky.social & @henriwords.com, & all the setters! Now onto the design phase... Sign up for the mailing list over at unchcrosswords.com so you'll be the first to know when we open pre-sales!

Current streak is now 100 days, but will I ever beat my 250-day record? What a time to be alive. Wordle 1,600 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"There's a depression". Cheer up Prue, it'll soon be over. #gbbo

Writing comp on the theme of bookshops 📚 www.kemptownbookshop.co.uk/writing-comp...

It took me 38 seconds to solve the Telegraph Mini this morning which is about my average, but not great considering I *wrote* today's clues...

Sharing a thing you love with lovely people who give you wine - what could be better? 😊👑🍷

Coming soon

"Why," he said, "is there a sofa in that field?" "I told you!" shouted Ford, leaping to his feet. "Eddies in the space-time continuum!" "And this is his sofa, is it?" asked Arthur, struggling to his feet and, he hoped, though not very optimistically, to his senses.

Streaming crosswords in a couple of hours, join us at 12 noon GMT to help solve new cryptics by Skirwingle @skirwingle.bsky.social and LeoNessie @joeleisen.bsky.social! #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Seems like a good day not to move from the bed. I need to do some editing work, but this is exactly what laptops and big pillows are for, no? #bediting

So does Alex's training room t-shirt suggest she's a crossword fan? 🧐 #scd #strictly

A rare misstep from Karen, concept wise #scd #strictly

Banger. But a missed opportunity to elevate that rumba beyond the mid table of doom by going full Siobhan Fahey #scd #strictly

I haven't been a fan of Lewis and Katya up to now but that was AMAZING #scd #strictly

Tess and Claudia look like when someone on the Sewing Bee makes two slightly too small garments out of the same transformation challenge fabric #scd #strictly

FAO local archivist pals - Raymond Briggs archive project is hiring fa-euru-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PIPES IS HERE

I seem to have developed a very specific form of tinnitus that's just the Teams ringtone on a faint but constant loop in my head. (So apologies if you are trying to call me on Teams in reality and I'm ignoring you.)

If you've already got a copy of Issue 1 of Unch, now is a good time to sign up for updates so you are ready to pre-order Issue 2. If you haven't got a copy of Issue 1 of Unch yet, now is a good time to buy one before we completely run out. Either way, the place to do that is: unchcrosswords.com

Oof when Toby's framboisier slid off the plate like it was losing the will to live I felt it in my soul #gbbo

Tom is on the absolute BRINK. Of what, I'm not sure. #gbbo

Oh, no. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Somewhat in denial still after a giddy long weekend, but I must definitely be back at work if I'm downloading articles like this at 8.30am: "Foreskin preputioplasty and intralesional triamcinolone: a valid alternative to circumcision for balanitis xerotica obliterans".

Second and last of my York S&B event plugs: The lovely folks at Fifteensquared have, as part of blogging my ‘York Attendees’ puzzle, posted a downloadable version that anyone can enjoy/endure 😁 www.fifteensquared.net/wp-content/u...

Belatedly plugging the collaborative #cryptic #crossword (30 clues by 30 setters) I pulled together for the York Sloggers & Betters weekender, available online here: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2788 Solve the puzzle! Guess the setters! 😆 (and big thanks to everyone who took part 🤩)

A fantastic weekend with friends old and new. Thanks all x

You thought you could escape York through the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service? Think again - come 12pm, I'll be tackling the Platypus @henriwords.com curated for the event! Plus: puzzles from @evilflea.bsky.social & @cranberryfez.bsky.social, then maybe a fourth? twitch.tv/pantherapuzzles

No #CrypticSunday stream today as we're still away doing non-online crossword-based socialising in York 😊 🍻 Back next week!

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In a departure from my usual cryptic nonsense, I set today's Telegraph Mini crossword 😊 Solve online with a puzzles subscription www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/

Joe M constantly landing on Jonathan and then veering off again like a bluebottle trying to get out of a window #CelebrityTraitors

Can Mark and David host a podcast together please? Lovely voiced men #CelebrityTraitors

Good NHS dental care is so important when you're growing up with a cleft lip/palate, but currently a lot of people aren't getting it. This petition is part of the campaign to change this. #CleftDentalCrisis you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Returning to York tomorrow for the first time in... a lot of years. Excited to a) hang out with crossword people and b) revisit some old haunts.

I love Mark Bonnar obv, it was hard seeing his happy laughter getting more and more strained over the course of the day. Hahaha I'm in a big net hahaha you've got to stop watching Line of Duty I'm not a traitor haha no really I would hate to be a traitor ha oh god 🙁 #CelebrityTraitors