Greetings from Sloggers and Betters in York. Lovely to be with setters, solvers and bloggers in the pub already :) Also, here’s this week’s @economist.com weekend #cryptic #crossword Featuring: 1920s style, spirit and etiquette (7) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
PeterMF
PeterMF
@petermoorefuller.bsky.social
Crosswords - Chopin (mycrossword), Bard (Independent), Playfair (Economist) & Glyph (Guardian) Scicomm (infohackit) Music (peteplays12)
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Back as Playfair today in the @economist.com weekend crossword. Including: Perfect specimen playful, a little eccentric and kind (9) King and mobster manipulated financial networks (4,7) www.economist.com/games/1843/0... #cryptic #crossword
Greetings new (and old) followers. Thanks to @philippeauclair.bsky.social ‘s #cryptic #crossword starter pack for sending some of you my way! All my crossword stuff can now be found on my website. Setting for various places, workshops and commissions. crosswords.moore-fuller.co.uk
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The (lovely) 3D Crossword Calendar 2027: order here: 3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk/shop/. All in aid of @rnib.bsky.social & BBC Children in Need.
I set today’s @parseword.com #cryptic #crossword clue. As seen previously in @unchcrosswords.com
Delighted to return as Playfair in the @economist.com weekend #cryptic #crossword today, featuring: Mac on sale here, Kindle reduced and 50% off old smartphone (8) economist.com/games/1843/0... (Sub required)
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My brilliant crafty wife has started an Etsy shop! She’s selling quick and witty cross stitch kits. There’s keyrings, magnets and, you’ve guessed it - cross stitch #cryptic #crosswords! Lots more to come 🤩 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/quic...
Bard is back in the Indy today, featuring: Trendy adult board game place in the USA (7) Examined origins of surveillance culture with subjective article (6) Play for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... #cryptic #crossword
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Did you know that @the-independent.com is planning to shelve its cryptic crossword at the end of October? Get involved, by contacting the Indy directly, by retweeting this post and/or by commenting at fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/i.... Save the Indy #crossword!!
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A brand spanking new #cryptic #crossword from me, no shenanigans (honest) but hopefully still entertaining in its own little way Sample clues: 🐕 Woke Rover! (5-2) 👂 Listener is retro bullshit! (3) 🥁 Drummer keeping time under regularly repetitive sound (8) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3930
Happy first birthday to @economist.com weekend crossword! Delighted to be back as Playfair, including: Grumpy, discontented, cloistered, loveless and sedentary? No way! (9) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
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Delighted to be back in the Independent today. Clues includes: Make a mess of power grab acquiring fashion brand (4,2) Eric and Ernie wanted this star to excel (8) Sir Elton abandons husband in favour of American woman (4) #cryptic #crossword puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
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Dice is back in the Quiptic today - hope you enjoy - and did you spot the theme? Nibbles of grapes, olives, unagi, dips and cheese (5) Couple Mummy Pig brought up in large book (7) Money I waste, ultimately, on underwear (9) #cryptic #crossword
Great to see. I enjoy writing these explanations. They’re pitched somewhere between a hint and a parse. If anyone fancies a crack at this puzzle, I can rustle up a couple of gift links I think. Pop me a DM. As an aside, do you have a higher education postcard for this clue @hbsj.bsky.social ?
Delighted to reach this milestone, and to announce the introduction of our new "Explain clue" feature
The @economist.com weekend #cryptic #crossword series reaches its 50th puzzle today – and delighted to have written it. Featuring: Problems as Quebec and US claiming lake (7) Engineered rise of unsettling AI actress (9) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
Little nerdy thread on #cryptic #crossword setters workflow.... I don't use Crossword Compiler all that much – preferring an Apple Note for writing & @mycrossword.co.uk for everything else – so I've made myself a database of clues which I can use to check grid fills for words I've clued before...
Little nerdy thread on #cryptic #crossword setters workflow.... I don't use Crossword Compiler all that much – preferring an Apple Note for writing & @mycrossword.co.uk for everything else – so I've made myself a database of clues which I can use to check grid fills for words I've clued before...
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Gearing up for a day full of crosswords! Join me and @wyrd.systems for the middle bit at 12, solving cryptics by The and Chopin @petermoorefuller.bsky.social #CrypticSunday twitch.tv/crypticsunday
I set today’s weekend #cryptic #crossword in @economist.com as Playfair. Featuring: Medical innovation able to scan crevice for changes (6,8) Malaise starts to envelop Nigel, newly under investigation (5) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
Inspired by @charliemethven.bsky.social – this is the one in this grid that snagged for me: Lesotho actively invested in empty tenements lacking power (9) Any advances on that? Or decent alternatives?
Take a trip down #cryptic #crossword memory lane where you'll find my first Indy puzzle as Bard (March 2024) now free to solve on the wonderful @mycrossword.co.uk Features: Acrostic of "find accommodating receptacle to entomb dead" (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3838
Howdy #scicomm 🧪 folks! I'm offering a new online workshop called "introduction to design skills for communicating research" on Zoom on the 23rd September 1-5pm BST. Details here: www.infohackit.com/intro-to-des... Shares appreciated!
Howdy #scicomm 🧪 folks! I'm offering a new online workshop called "introduction to design skills for communicating research" on Zoom on the 23rd September 1-5pm BST. Details here: www.infohackit.com/intro-to-des... Shares appreciated!
Back in the @economist.com weekend crossword as Playfair, including: Past tech - call Alberta in Gretna somehow? (13,9,5) Jumbo raincoat catalogue an indicator of global economics? (3,3,5) Puny fellow in shrewd riposte (4) www.economist.com/games/1843/0... #cryptic #crossword
Delightful long weekend at Harlequin Fayre playing with The Dead Set, and running a crossword solve-along on the curio stage, solving @guineverecryptic.bsky.social’s recent Quiptic :)
My second Genius puzzle for @theguardian.com ⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️ Thanks to @alanconnor.bsky.social for the slot. Lucy @henriwords.com and @mister-norm.bsky.social for testing. Looking forward to seeing what the solvers make of it… if that’s you - enjoy & good luck! 😁 www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2...
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1. First Monday of the month, woo-hoo, a new Guardian Genius 😃 2. Oh, its the one from @petermoorefuller.bsky.social that I tested so I’ve already done it 🫤 3. I remember what an absolute doozy it is, y’all are in for a treat! 😃
Back as Playfair in @economist.com featuring: Start to hate Careless Whisper after disc jockey's stick? (9) Divisive, powerful, "macho" man - ultimately turning over grand sum? (4,4) www.economist.com/games/1843/0... #cryptic #crossword
Playfair in today’s @economist.com weekend #cryptic #crossword. And happy birthday to my darling Lucy, with gratitude for all the testing: Conflict as Playfair supervised by wife? Ace editor ultimately (4,3) Stoppard play with villain breaking into song (7) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
Happy to be back as Playfair in @economist.com today. Featuring: Industrialist assuring oil gets refined - shrewd! (7,8) Warm places regularly burn wearing thongs (8) www.economist.com/games/1843/0...
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I set today's Featured puzzle which includes a clue which may or may not have been inspired by @crackingthecryptic.bsky.social 👀 Beef with Minute Cryptic clues (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/15
I set today’s @parseword.com Wireless missing one essentially redundant element (5) As seen in my alphabetical puzzle in @unchcrosswords.com Solve for free here. www.parseword.com/daily #cryptic #crossword
Thanks to @henriwords.com and @guineverecryptic.bsky.social for the heads up! ❤️
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Self-driving car that is made to leave, leaves (4) From today’s cryptic crossword for The Independent, by me, at puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent PS There is a ghost theme