Playfair in the @economist.com today featuring:
💃🏻 Brazen couple tango indecently – Playfair cutting in (12)
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Appropriate as I’ve spent 12 hours at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool today. And no, I haven’t cut in during anyone’s tango.
Spot on!
Where am I?
Massive congrats!
Back as Playfair in @economist.com today. Features:
Fellow on X, incel, was oddly getting “facts” here? (3,4)
Sketch show from TV raised tiny laugh, unfortunately (8,5,4)
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I shall be asleep, but will catch up tomorrow - hope you enjoy the alphabet jigsaw!
Unch Issue 3 cover. "unch" text at the top, with the subtitle "the clued up crossword magazine". The field is dark yellow and on it is a cartoon of a red hand pointing to the right and a big black arrow pointing down.
OK everyone - we have a cover sorted out and pre-sales are open!
Roll up and buy one now at unchcrosswords.com
Please do repost and share where you can, I'm really keen to get these excellent puzzles in front of as many people as possible...
In today’s @economist.com crossword…
Came out with a climbing qualification including a little medal (7)
Dominant pose? Trump looks silly (9)
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Latest Playfair grid in @economist.com today! Including:
🎹 Performing Mozart’s fourth including one really difficult passage (6,2,6)
🥕Discovered King had grown vegetables, planted neatly thus (2,1,3)
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Brilliant!
A road sign "Itteringham, please drive slowly" A mock-up road sign "IT Nightmare, please drive slowly" Another mock-up sign "IT Nightmare, all speed is very low"
Whilst I appreciate BBC Norfolk's anagram-based reporting - they could have taken it one step further...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#anagram
Glad you enjoyed it @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social ! 👍👍👍
I am an enthusiastic but terrible and impatient solver of cryptic crosswords, who generally does very badly. But Bard’s alphabetical puzzle in Unch No. 2 was hugely, hugely enjoyable. More of those, please!
How about a Playfair puzzle for your Saturday solve in the @economist.com ?
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Work with Duke of York following marching orders? (7,5)
Sky darts broadcast featuring international pop sensations (5,4)
#cryptic #crossword #puzzle
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Bard's turn in the Indy today.
📕 Catchphrase from heavy-going books, setter falls for solver in the second (2,2,2,3)
🌋 Briefly fume before violent rumble (3,7)
🪨 Loose rock formation in dangerous creek (5)
Play for free!
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#cryptic #crossword #puzzle
Congrats! 🙌
Back as Playfair in @economist.com today (subs) with another mildly topical puzzle.
Includes:
Awards show starts to broadcast apologies for Tourette’s activist shouting (6)
Donna married incredibly powerful man (8,4)
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With Affinity (free), you can copy and paste your PowerPoint shapes in and save them as svgs for perfect vector quality and low file sizes :)
www.affinity.studio/graphic-desi...
Affinity great for making this stuff in general. Surprising what you can make with simple geometric shapes!
Excellent! PowerPoint allows you to make pretty good vector graphics (great quality at any size!). Snipping turns everything into low resolution pixel based images, which isn’t always a problem, but worth knowing.
Glad you liked it!
My 10th outing as Playfair in @economist.com today.
Hear Starmer stupidly ignores first sign of Mandelson getting “highly sought after materials” (4,6)
www.economist.com/interactive/...
#cryptic #crossword
This is fantastic.
Engaging people with data through game play. Also has that very Gapminder-ish quality of challenging assumption.
Love it!
Listen to the real Boss ✊
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Delighted to make my Unch debut in Issue 2 as Bard.
Hope y’all enjoy my first alphabetical!
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That capital fellow Playfair is back in the @economist.com day, featuring:
15D. Inexpert leader in love with another country’s territory (9)
20A. United Kingdom getting behind new university for 15D’s capital (4)
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That’s my friend Ben on the voice over 😊. He used to do mobile IT support around Norwich and go from office to office on his unicycle.
Got to be the mighty Redditch!
Re-reading Vonnegut.
This from Cat’s Cradle.
