Flashling

After exercising, glimpse a dreaded beer belly? (6-3,6) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Hurting stonegate is one thing. But you'll be hurting the livelihood of people like me too and I don't wish that

Unbelievable behaviour. Sometimes I think we were better off with the big brewery monopolies than these crappy pub co's. I know it doesn't help you in the slightest, but I think we should all send a message by not using any of their venues (link below). www.stonegategroup.co.uk/find-your-lo...

Stiff little fingers in my pants

Xtc in my pants

Off to walk as well as I can to the docs. Don't suppose they will prescribe cyanide. Some really strong antidepressants and painkillers will do me.

So, they have new tenants for what I'll always consider my pub. Their rent will be £10 per week. Mine was £1200, yes £1200 nor £12.00 and they'll fix all the broken stuff we've been complaining about for 18 months. B*st*rds.

Today is, unfortunately, last posting day for Stamp in the Independent. Fellow 'sampling' every second? Bloody odd TV chef (5) Many thanks to those who have solved, blogged, commented upon and/or complained about my puzzles over the last three years! puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Chekov has beamed out. RIP.

🚀 New Release: York Edition After catching up with lots of MyCrossword setters in York, I came away with a few requests for improvements. Luckily, I had a long train journey home, so I decided to see how many I could tick off. Turns out, quite a few! 😄 Here’s what’s new...

Flash by queen

QP with Your name in a song: We Are the Champies

Bit late to tell you now, but Kybos in the Quick Cryptic in the Times today! Sorry, been a bit distracted having a really lovely time with the wonderful crossword community in York at S&B! #cryptic #crossword

I'm a gent with PhD playing 'Sound of the Underground'? (4,3,3) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Looks like Phi is going to start publishing his regular puzzles (i.e. the ones that would have been on the Indy) on his own site, for while at least, with a Buy Me a Coffee button… phionline.net.nz/2026/10/phid...

Great day up in York. Lovely to meet so many people I know from the online crossword space. Here's a puzzle I forgot to print and bring with me. www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/4060 Don't eat it all at once.

Prak! https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/4051

The inventor of speech recognition software has died His few neural is on when’s Dave

🚀 New MyCrossword Release Drag-and-drop, Scrabble-style tiles for solving anagrams by hand. 🧩 www.mycrossword.co.uk/toolkit/lett...

Thank you all for all of your feedback. I am really going to miss setting for the Indy. 🥹

Reposting for the evening crowd due to an alarming lack of comments on the Fifteensquared blog 😳 if you solved, pop a comment there and make an old man happy 😆

Back in the Telegraph today with clues such as Dog destroyed atlas at home, eating America (8) Victory perhaps tires part of body (8) I hope you enjoy it!

Tango is back in the Times QC slot today, with clues including: Given too much money to drive OAP to dance (8) I hope you enjoy it!

I set today’s Independent. I still cannot believe it is the last one. Thank you to Mike, all of the bloggers over on 225 and all of the solvers for these last 3 years. puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Did you see my recent #cryptic #crossword at www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/4036 ?

My topical clue from this week's Puzzles Edit newsletter for @theobserveruk.bsky.social: Patient undergoing surgery worried people back in Chicago (4,3)

It's a Saturday night, so I've put my tin hat on and written about cryptic crosswords and AI. Thanks as ever to @mycrossword.co.uk for letting me bang on www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/will-ai...

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

We Norwegians know a Quisling when we see one, and it was painfully obvious a decade ago that Trump would sell out America for peanuts.

Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.

Belligerence from angry vegetarian stuns me (17) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Very bittersweet seeing so many excellent setters having their final Independent puzzles published.

Brand is, at times, shifty when admitting offending at last! (10) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

Weatherman returns to today's Telegraph Toughie, with clues like: Picket about change to salaried work (8,4) Get it wherever you get your Toughies!

Crossword editor’s desk: why the Independent’s puzzle should live on www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...

'Don't ever mess with nature', says Donald Trump in his abhorrent post. This is the same Donald Trump who puts fake product over his natural pallid skin colour, wears lifts in his shoes to appear taller than his natural height, and uses AI to present unnatural images of himself.

Did the Russians interfere in Brexit?

And if anyone draws a shamrock in it you're legally obliged to carve a dick and balls into their forehead with a blunt spoon.

I set today’s Guardian cryptic www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... Clues include Laptop loses power for minute – one might need drive to work (8) Vacuous actor plugging body spray, gets speaking part (6) Alice tattoos over old unwanted snakes – one points towards bottom? (10) No spoilers, ta!

Lily Savage is one flashing mannish leg (10) Believer in India cutting through nonsense (6) Rated “Gentle” in the Guardian QC style — thank you 😊

Hints and explanations for clues in today's Telegraph cryptic crossword, featuring reporter Kermit, Radio 4's Tim Harford, Tux the penguin, and tile-laying game Cascadia: Alphine Lakes — plus commenters being more familiar with the music of John Otway than Lorde: bigdave44.com/2026/10/12/d...

A rambling and incomplete guide to cricket-related clues in crosswords from a cricket lover who thinks that there should be fewer of them. Tell me that wasn't on your reading list for today! 😉

The Observer and its Everyman crossword have been an important part of my puzzling journey from the beginning, so it was especially lovely to chat to the Observer’s brilliant puzzles editor, Caitlin O’Kane, about Murder Most Cryptic 🧩 🕵🏻‍♀️ 🖊️ observer.co.uk/puzzles/cait...

Turnstone is filling the Quiptic spot today. Hope it’s a nice Sunday solve! www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

A man just asked me if I knew "the way to the nearest fucking Wickes." I told him to mind his Bs and Qs. No you resign.

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