Is it "accidentally" or "by accident"? Anyway, I sawed my assistant in half

Sample from today's @theguardian.com Enigmatist Prize Xword (no spoilers please): He makes a hole in one tree (4) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social

‪ In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1923: Parallels by Apt; Solution 1921: Friends of Mine by Kruger @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

Take a look at 8 down in Today’s Guardian Prize and 29 across in Today’s Times Prize! #crypticcrosswords

Half-cut relatives start to hanker for new set of crosswords (4)

Dedicated to @timlihoreau.bsky.social, this sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Go on eating a single sausage (9) @derekharrison.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

Can ‘game’ be used as an anagram indicator?

In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1918: Taken for a Ride by Vismut; Solution 1916: Workout by Poat @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Joe storms after Mike (2,7) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

Badenoch’s shifflibg her team and bringing James Dimly back. So it's bye to the useless Stride then?

A new one for my silly street name collection.

Found it. They have brought the closing date ‚forward‘ for postal entries. cdn.observer.co.uk/media/docume...

A shame the Pbserver couldn’t bring itself to post the first Gemelo puzzle today. @alanconnor.bsky.social

I win as manager? Maybe most of the time! (6, 7) #crypticcrosswords

After 53 years of setting weekly crosswords, Azed is to share the load. He will continue to set the puzzles on the first Sunday of the month and judge the clues. On the other weeks the setter will be Gemelo, Colin Thomas aka Twin. The latest Azed Slip is here. www.crossword.org.uk/Azed2763.pdf

Another cracker from Brendan in today’s Graun A strongman endlessly confused (8)

Looks like the Big Dave community shunned me because I dared not to like yesterday’s Toughie. :(

Find Duncan Shiell's blog for #Inquisitor 1913, What Goes Around by Charybdis, at: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/07/01/i... @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1915: Circle Line/Central Line by Cranberry; Solution 1913: What Goes Around by Charybdis @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

Lovely Brendan crossword in today’s Grauniad Nice prospect, like this puzzle? (6) #crypticcrosswords

I set the cryptic crossword in today's edition of the weekend @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Punch in the mouth? We click "UK" and "NHS" to get treatment (7,8). Solve the puzzle on the FT app or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/a4bf...

Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Sapphire about to leave India, possibly? (7) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

"Art" - my radical new hotel opening in the West End (9,4) Sample clue from my Hudson puzzle in today's Telegraph Toughie slot

Sample clue from today's Enigmatist @theguardian.com: Boob initially pops out of bra when it splits sides (6): www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

Classy.

Nice response by the lovely Cyclops in the latest Private Eye.

Lovely clue from Bjorn in today’s Times Quick Cryptic (actually several others as well!): Where the animals walk in four by four? (6,4). #crypticcrosswords

In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1913: What Goes Around by Charybdis; and Solution 1911: Yobs by Chalicea @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

What a super clue in today's Times puzzle: Spooner's take on his characteristic hobby (12)

@privateeyenews.bsky.social I must apologise to Dicky Mint for comparing him to Nigel Farage. I will pay appropriate compensation in jam butties from the mine. It’s clear Farage resembles the Hon Nigel Ponsonby Smallpiece.

Lovely puzzle from the wonderful La Jerezana (Rosa Klebb) in the Spectator. Within lies this little gem Tempted American with sex in the sack (6)

@privateeyenews.bsky.social @PrivateEyeNews Have you noticed the similarity between Man of the People Nigel Farage and the Late Ken Dodd’s chum Dicky Mint? I think we should be told. Man of the People. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn... Dicky Mint

Sample clue from today's @financialtimes.com Io: Chief island in group realised Gershwin's potential (7); free to solve at www.ft.com/content/6719... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

Third copy. Other two snaffled by guests!

I set the cryptic crossword in the weekend edition of The @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Bad smell during snog from Connery put the tin lid on it (6). Solve the puzzle on the FT app or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/46f7...

In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1912: Absences by Skylark; and Solution 1910: Dead-letter Drop by Kruger @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @jo42.bsky.social

Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Time you enjoy approaching solicitor (5,3) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

I’m feeling rather nervous about Channel 5’s Murder Most Puzzling. A professional crossword setter solves murders a la Miss Marple. Stars Phyllis Logan as the Puzzle Lady. From the trailer, the grids are pretty dreary, bucket loads of double unches and dismal clues. Oh dear.

One of those odd days when the Daily Telegraph back pager is harder than the Toughie.

In this weekend's @theipaper.com, #Inquisitor 1911: Yobs by Chalicea; and Solution 1909: Find the Title by Phi @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

Tonight’s evening meal: The Sll-Day Breakfast. Cold beans, soggy omelette, a hash brown that resembles a potato cake. Will someone please sort out hospital food?

Sample clue from today's spot-the-theme Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: First thing for astronaut, I suspect, to worry about (9) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social

As it's Stanley Baxter's 99th birthday... Young chap [Stanley Baxter] walks into a chemist's shop. Gorgeous blonde assistant [also Stanley Baxter] says "what can I get you?" "I'd like a deodorant" "Ball or aerosol?" "Wull, axshually, it wiz fer under ma arm"

A fellow named Johan from Norway, Who lived rather close to the shoreway, Declared: "Beg your pardon, Your ship's in my garden, And damn near got stuck in my doorway!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...