I’m delighted to occupy the latest MyCrossword Featured slot. Sample clues:
Dressed and ready to go (2,4)
Labourer’s clothes surprisingly ungreased (9)
Many thanks to @mycrossword.co.uk as always, and to @cranberryfez.bsky.social for editing.
#cryptic #crossword
www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/7
Morning all, planning to solve new cryptic crosswords by @postmarkcryptic.bsky.social and @longyfan.bsky.social on our stream today. Join us at 12 noon GMT! #CrypticSunday
twitch.tv/crypticsunday
There are a number of users on MyCrossword who generously donate each month to help keep the lights on, and I’m really grateful for their support. I wanted to recognise these contributions, so supporters now have a badge on their profile.
E.g. www.mycrossword.co.uk/coot
Hope you enjoyed it! Will watch the vod :)
Issue 5 is out now to subscribers! Four new variety cryptics from @henriwords.com, @juffowup.bsky.social and Roger Wolff!
www.gnomoncryptics.com
Delighted to have another puzzle in The Gnomon, this one is called ‘Can You Handle It?’ 😁
Big thanks to @juffowup.bsky.social
Just realising that tomorrow is Friday. I should be streaming at the normal time. Will do @longyfan.bsky.social's Featured MyC. Please send other recommendations.
Proud to be third up in @mycrossword.co.uk’s featured puzzle series!
Holy shit! The crossword award, The Orcas, added cryptic categories this year and The Gnomon got three nominations!
Give a donation of any size to the Trevor Project and receive a pack of 81 puzzles! (Nine of these are variety cryptics and eight are vanilla cryptics.)
Do it!
Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Following on from Raider's excellent advice at @mycrossword.co.uk, I've started a new blog series looking at how and why cryptics work:
www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...
Hope it's useful / interesting!
Thanks, I’ll probably give it a go!
Anyone use the Chambers Mac app? Any good? The three reviews in the app store are mixed and several years old…
With so many people taking up setting recently, I’ve put together a quick guide to help you get started.
www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/becomin...
Both delighted and proud that my 100th puzzle on MyCrossword is also the first in the new collaboration between mycrossword.co.uk and fifteensquared.net.
The puzzle can be found here: www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/1
I hope you enjoy it.
A busy weekend featuring two family birthdays, a West End show and a Christmas party, but in between we're looking forward to crosswords by @iguesscryptics.bsky.social and @henriwords.com. Join us at 12! #CrypticSunday
twitch.tv/crypticsunday
Bittersweet to announce that @jessshulman.bsky.social and I did the second-to-last Browser. Edited as always by the wonderful @danfeyer.bsky.social
www.thebrowser.com/crossword
Yes I recently upgraded from an Intel MacBook with Windows installed. It was pretty handy (although I had to reboot every time or course). Thanks for the advice!
Any Mac users doing the fidgeting necessary to run Crossword Compiler? Wondering how much of a headache it is
We only have time for one crossword today on #CrypticSunday and that will be by boznut, join us at 12 to help solve!
twitch.tv/crypticsunday
Happy to see I contravened almost every note in MyCrossword’s new editorial guidance with last year’s “cryptic crimes” puzzle (and then some)
www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2161
If you subscribe to my emails already then my free Christmassy puzzle ‘Seven Gifts So Fancy’ should have landed in your inbox today - I hope you enjoy it 🎁
If you’re not on the mailing list but you’d like a free copy of the puzzle, send me a DM
To get future free puzzles sign up at henriwords.com
Forgot to mention that I’m half of Crenditi… can’t wait for Unch 2!
I'm very excited about the excellent puzzles we've got lined up for Issue 2, coming out in January.
Setters this time will be:
ALP
Gennaro
Catnip
The Void
Heron
Ruskin
Umpire
Crenditi
Bard
Henri
That's 8 standard cryptics, an alphabetical jigsaw, and a barred thematic. Fun!
unchcrosswords.com
cover of Unch Issue 2 (jan 2026). text reads "Unch: the clued-up crossword magazine". the main image is an multicolour pattern with empty white squares with 3d-effect trails of blue, yellow and pink.
Issue 2 available for (pre)sale now: unchcrosswords.com
That was a fun one! And yet I still commit these “offences” (and new ones I have discovered/invented) regularly – sometimes on purpose, sometimes not…
Glad it has been a useful puzzle!
Five overlapping crossword grids. Two are 15x15 blocked grids, one 11x11 barred grid with circles, a 7x7 block/bar hybrid, and a 10x10 barred grid with 4 blocks.
Gnomon issue 4 is coming in one week, with five more variety cryptics. Now featuring more blocks than ever! With puzzles by @longyfan.bsky.social @matttheshirt.bsky.social @therackenfracker.bsky.social and @juffowup.bsky.social
We're spoilt for choice on MyCrossword this week! Have picked two cryptics to stream from setters we haven't attempted in a while: Fez (as Blancheflower) @cranberryfez.bsky.social and Longyfan @longyfan.bsky.social. Join us at 12 noon GMT! #CrypticSunday
twitch.tv/crypticsunday
