🪡🖋️ Our next Needlewriters event is on Thursday 9 October at the John Harvey Tavern in Lewes, just £5 on the door and that includes entry to our book raffle as well as three fabulous readers! needlewriters.co.uk/2025/07/27/r...

I love a clue that looks like a maths problem but isn't, because I can't do maths but I CAN solve cryptic crossword clues, ha. Minute Cryptic - 24 September, 2025 "12 - 55 + n = 9 - 12" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (76,263 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

Happy National Punctuation Day! Here’s a link to my fun – no, really – article about apostrophes and quotation marks: peoplewithissues.org/what-you-key... (I really must get around to writing the sequel about dashes.)

Today is #BiVisibilityDay so some more Ruairi scenes tonight please! #TheArchers

Join us at 12 for a couple of crosswords, uninterrupted by The Kid eating crisps as they have departed for university 😭, but very much still interrupted by the cat I'm sure...😺 #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

@ouroborosop.bsky.social Hi J, planning to stream your latest MyCrossword puzzle today from 12 on #CrypticSunday if you want to join or watch back 🙂

@iguesscryptics.bsky.social Hi Josh, planning to stream your latest MyCrossword puzzle today - probably second half from 1ish if you're around 🙂

Last chance to grab a place on my November masterclass! The attendee list closes in one week - act now!

YAY we did it 🎉 and if you think you might have been the person who placed the fateful order, IT WAS YOU! so thank you very much, we hope you enjoy the puzzles 😁

Hope you enjoy the latest Dice 🎲 puzzle today! There’s a little extra gift in there for solvers this week… 💝 Wake up and have a loud drinking session topless (6) Claims no Ozempic suppresses sleep (6) Requires massages orally (5) #cryptic #crossword www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

Thank you #TheArchers, the perfect time for a lovely romantic storyline, Paul and Ruairi frolicking in the autumn leaves, watching Strictly together etc 😍🤞

'Even using ChatGPT summaries as a "starting point" for human editing "would require just as much, if not more, effort as drafting summaries themselves from scratch" due to the need for "extensive fact-checking".'

Hey, if you haven’t yet pre-ordered your copy of issue 1 of Unch then you should do so NOW as you could be the lucky person who tips the orders over a Specific Round Number and a kind of Initial Sales Target and if you do that you get a Special Gift* * our warm thoughts unchcrosswords.com

T is off to university today 🤯🥹

In honour of #gbbo bread week, reliving the memory of T's bread-based Tony award (made during lockdown when they were missing the theatre...) #Dough-ny

@emmachaplin.bsky.social Happy wild and windy birthday! 🎉🎈

Solving another couple of MyCrossword cryptics with @wyrd.systems at 12, if I can get caffeinated enough in the next hour... #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

L👀K! www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/unch-a-...

I'm not sure if #ThePaper is any good yet, but I do know I'm going to hear Tim Key in my head saying 'Scrunchie? No harm in it' every time I tie my hair back from now on.

Did Paul really just look at a functioning biscuit turntable and say 'it's a bit basic'? GTF. #gbbo

I'm doing an online course that clashes with #gbbo for the next 4 weeks, very foolish of me. Finished (and with biscuits incoming) in time for the showstopper though.

I’m headed to the wonderful Wells Maltings on November 4th for another beginners cryptic crossword workshop. This time with afternoon tea included! www.wellsmaltings.org.uk/events/a-beg...

Very excited to be a part of Unch and to have a cryptic in Issue 1! Crosswords by the community and for the community, through your letterbox ❤️ UK pre-orders open now! unchcrosswords.com

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I keep seeing medical journal articles that conclude: "Our study proves LLMs are great as long as medical professionals carefully review the outputs." "This calculator is great as long as you carefully do the sum on paper as well to check it got the answer right." Such a time saver!

My timeline has a mixture of #F1 and #ToBM news on it right now and I momentarily thought that a cow had got onto the track at Monza #ItalianGP 😲

Our solving stream today will feature new cryptics shared on MyCrossword by Gennaro and boznut, join us at 12! #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

And somehow it’s time for the first page of ‘What to Look for in Autumn’. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Goals.

Boggling at this salary. 4 days a week for less than £26k pa and no London weighting 😬

Recently learned (after @wyrd.systems found her in Jonathan Crowther's A-Z of Crosswords) that the crossword setter Machiavelli lived just down the road from us and also won the first ever series of Countdown. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_C...

He consulted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He looked up "guidance" and it said "See under ADVICE". He looked up "advice" and it said "see under GUIDANCE". It had been doing a lot of that kind of stuff recently and he wondered if it was all it was cracked up to be.

For those about to rock... try my crossword in the print i paper today. Originally published in the Independent in 2021, it's one of my favourites I think! 🪨

Stephen Iliffe's wonderful Deaf Mosaic exhibition is visiting Brighton seafront all this month, featuring 35 portraits of awesome Deaf people including my mum. (Photo hers as I'm stuck at home ill and haven't been able to go yet.)

I do love a new bus route! www.buses.co.uk/3x

Oooh! @unchcrosswords.com - a new #cryptic #crossword magazine that I’m helping out on - has been mentioned in today’s Guardian Crossword blog! 👍 👍 www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... (no pressure now, @wyrd.systems 😆)

@joeleisen.bsky.social Hope it's ok we're going to solve one of your crosswords on our stream today! Twitch channel is twitch.tv/crypticsunday if you want to watch along or watch back later 🙂

Back with a couple of crosswords to solve online together today! Join us at 12 for MyCrossword cryptics by Baldur and LeoNessie @joeleisen.bsky.social #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday

Have been to IKEA, ordered something from White Stuff, and am now watching the Thursday Murder Club - could this day off get any more middle class?

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Four visual clues to where I've been for the past few days:

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I can be silent too, and behave nicely though that's a strain.

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..." and so on.

Forgot to say no stream today, do join Panthera in an hour's time instead! #CrypticSunday

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Oh is the cure Buscopan? #totp

Why would I pay silly money to see an important band of my youth play anniversary shows when I can just make a themed crossword about them instead? We all know this is the sign of a TRUE fan.