If you're learning to solve cryptic crosswords, Spoonerisms are a necessary lesson. This will be a Marmite day... Please don't hate me too much! 🎲 Dice in the Quick Cryptic today... Mark pig, says Spooner, for sausage sandwich (3,3) Which person? How drunk?! (3) #cryptic #crossword #spoonerism

Quick cryptic crossword No 132

Quick cryptic crossword No 132

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Would you like to get news about anything and everything cryptic-related I've been up to? This week's email reveals the first of a few exciting secret projects! Keep an eye out for emails once you're signed up - check junk and mark it safe! dkg-cryptics-upwido.subscribepage.io #cryptic #crossword

Congratulations @alyseliza.bsky.social on the publication of your new book! Lovely to attend the launch yesterday in London and get to meet you in person.

Had the best time at my local bookshop last night, celebrating the launch of Murder Most Cryptic! Hosted by @forumbooks.bsky.social and chaired by fellow crime writer Trevor Wood, it was a brilliant evening with friends, family and readers ❤️

📚 Happy publication day to Alys Cummings (@alyseliza.bsky.social) with ‘Murder Most Cryptic’! Congratulations on your book launch - we hope this new book flies off the shelves 🎉 Book lovers, grab your copy here 👉 buff.ly/HTfwVAM #CrimeBooks #NewBooks #CrimeFiction

‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’

‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’

London schoolgirl’s father taught her to play when she was five, and three years later she beat former British champion

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The eagle-eyed will have noticed that there’s a new #OffGridPod out. Are we fur real? Find out, or you’re history. https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2026/09/27/chambers-spin-off-history-ep-081/

Chambers’ Spin-off History – Ep. 081

We take a look at Chambers’ Spin-off History, check the size of the footage, and connect with a handshake before casting our capes to the wind. === If that sounds like something you wouldn’t turn down outright, please click play: If the player doesn’t show, here’s a direct download mp3 link. Support us:Off-Grid gear is […] The post Chambers’ Spin-off History – Ep. 081 appeared first on Off-Grid.

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If you listen to this latest episode of #OffGridPod you may well hear the familiar voice of a woman with a cryptic crime novel out soon…you’ll definitely hear chat about Bigfoot, soldiers, and Superman! @offgridpod.offgrid.tlmb.net.ap.brid.gy offgrid.tlmb.net/2026/09/27/c...

Chambers' Spin-off History - Ep. 081 - Off-Grid

We take a look at Chambers' Spin-off History, check the size of the footage, connect with a handshake before casting our capes to the wind.

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Had such a great time interviewing the very talented Janice Hallett about her latest book, The Silent Appeal, last night - she has lovely readers who asked brilliant questions! Thanks for inviting me @forumbooks.bsky.social ! 😊

Janice Hallett@janicehallett.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still buzzing after tonight’s event at the The Biscuit Factory courtesy of the wonderful @forumbooks.bsky.social with lovely @alyseliza.bsky.social asking the questions ❤️ thank you so much to each and every one of my beautiful readers for coming out to celebrate #TheSilentAppeal 🤫🕵️‍♀️🔎 Love you all!

Lovely morning chatting all things crosswords, in Durham with Dice 😊

Guinevere 🎲🎲@guineverecryptic.bsky.social · last mo.

Beautiful day to meet the very lovely @alyseliza.bsky.social - hoping I’ve persuaded her to join us at S&B next month as we had a really lovely catch-up! #diceandgarson #penelopeandguinevere #cryptic #crossword

Jeez-oh 😳 I made the McIvanney shortlist! Wish I had better words to describe how grateful I am, have to settle for THANK YOU judges THANK YOU @bloodyscotland.bsky.social

New Featured cryptic on MyCrossword by me today - should be a gentle start to your solving week I think 😇 www.mycrossword.co.uk/featured/18

Featured crossword No 18 · MyCrossword

Solve Featured crossword No 18 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by Angel. Published Mon 24 Aug 2026. Free to solve online.

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Sunday started well Wordle 1,891 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Huge thanks to @guineverecryptic.bsky.social for an insightful and fun #cryptic #crosswords chat! 🙌 Thanks again, Dice/Kybos/Guinevere/Jennie!

Talking Cryptics with Dice! (aka Guinevere; aka Kybos)

YouTube video by tpgrammar

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A second roll of the Monday Dice - I hope you enjoy! Floppy elephant with no stuffing for clingy type (6) Scourge of old? (5) Place, place and, finally, place (4)

Cryptic crossword No 30,087

Cryptic crossword No 30,087

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I absolutely love Janice Hallett’s books and am thrilled to be asking the questions when she comes to Newcastle in September to talk about The Silent Appeal. Thanks to the brilliant @forumbooks.bsky.social for hosting and inviting me to chair - tickets available on the link below 📚 🤩🤩

FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop@forumbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bliss to be back in Lower Lockwood! And we’re made up that @janicehallett.bsky.social is coming to Newcastle to tell us about ‘The Silent Appeal’ - a very high bar, but we reckon her best yet www.ticketsource.com/forumbooks/t...

For any Waterstones users who’ve been thinking of pre-ordering Murder Most Cryptic and haven’t yet…it’s part of a summer promotion til Friday, with 25 per cent off online orders with the code SUMMER26 🌞

Delighted to spot the perfect accompaniment to my mystery book in @sainsburys.bsky.social …in the form of a Murder Most Cryptic epigraph plant 🤩 Thank you Erno Rubik for all the puzzling fun and inspiration 🧩

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Wendy Law obituary

Ingenious crossword setter who compiled the weekly quiptic in the Guardian under the pseudonym Hectence

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Wordle 1,851 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Still makes me happy to get a two-er Still have to get it in one

A great actor is all men, somehow (3,5) #cryptic #crossword

Very pleased to be making my debut as Garson in the Guardian today 😊 www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

Quick cryptic crossword No 119

Quick cryptic crossword No 119

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Had a couple of days away in Italy…in an asylum in 16th C Tuscany. Loved this book by @dvbishop.com It does what the best historical novels do & feels as if you’re right there, alive in another place & time. And starts with a blizzard, so might cool you off a bit www.panmacmillan.com/authors/d-v-...

Shadow of Madness by D. V. Bishop

Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2026Trapped with a killer in a remote asylum, investigator Cesare Aldo must face his fears in Shadow of Madness, an atmospher

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Throwback to almost a year ago, when @susiemesure.bsky.social called out the massive gender imbalance in cryptic crosswords (around 3h46). We have seen some small improvements - bigger some places than others - but there is still a long way to go. www.youtube.com/live/V0cIy6q...

World Cryptic Crossword Championship London 2025

YouTube video by EXTRA C

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Everything DVB said!

SHADOW OF MADNESS out now!@dvbishop.com · 4mo ago

Totally recommend this, so many Pitch Perfect winners have gone on to great success: Kate Foster, Joseph Knox, @alisonbelsham.bsky.social, @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social, @alyseliza.bsky.social, @mattjwesolowski.bsky.social... One day @bloodyscotland.bsky.social might even have a past winners panel!

My book is becoming an actual proper book and it’s so exciting 🤩🤩🤩 this is a proof copy and I love it!

Keep it quiet but UNCH ISSUE FOUR PRE-SALES ARE OPEN NOW unchcrosswords.com#shop

Unch Crossword Magazine

Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine

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Tonight, on Panorama, our joint investigation with the Times www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC One - Panorama, Predator: The Billionaire Football Boss

A joint investigation by Panorama and the Times into the behaviour of David Sullivan.

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Delighted to have an honourable mention with my first entry into the Sunday Times clue writing contest 🥳😊 Topical society opinion is a selling point for The Sun? (9)

Delighted to be back in the Indy as Penelope today ✨ puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...