new Times full personal best!

I came in one spot behind Ben, but here's my own offering for the Canadiana speed-setting contest! Papa's neighbor Oscar is from Montréal? (9) Six esteemed men who sailed to Canada? (7) Money crazy, or so it's said (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3747

Cryptic crossword No 3,747 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,747 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by metagloria. Published Fri 31 Jul 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

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Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social · 6d ago

I entered the @crackingthecryptic.bsky.social 24 hour cryptic crossword setting challenge and got second place! GO CANADA! The Great White North may set upon Ms. Lovelace (6) Bones found in gulag stripped of goods, supporting lie by East (7) Hemp sheet? (4) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3744

Once my brain recovers from the speed-setting competition I did over the weekend, I get to tackle what is unquestionably the most difficult grid I've ever set for myself. There's a bit of a gimmick to it that I think/hope will be worth it. But this puzzle is gonna be BRUTAL!* (*SNITCH of ~85)

whoops I accidentally hit publish on my newest grid! guess you'll just have to solve it a day earlier :) Harry curtailed identification of copper (5) Work on big problem for small creature (7) Handle working in book returns (4) ...and many more! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3722

Cryptic crossword No 3,722 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,722 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by metagloria. Published Thu 23 Jul 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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Am I tough enough to tangle with a Toughie? Let's find out! twitch.tv/metagloria

Chris Evans@mpcryptics.bsky.social · 2w ago

A double feature from me today, one half of Potoroo in the Telegraph, and entirely Umpire in the Indy. puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Gets to dump women’s footballer making you cross? (9) Hope you enjoy the solves!

Do Ben's puzzles, this is a *really* good one

Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out with another grid! I would love any and all feedback on it :) Really tried to keep clues clean + succinct. Hope they are fun!! Professor Lars consumes bacon bits (7) Turn me over after stubbing toes! (4) Set loose, I am the orc, the orc of many colours! (15) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3711

Sitting on a finished puzzle you can't release until Friday night due to self-imposed temporal spacing

Spongebob Waiting in Diner

ALT: Spongebob Waiting in Diner

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don't you hate when stuff like "rules" and "convention" and "having proper grammar" gets in the way of a perfectly lovely surface reading

Just published puzzle that was a monster to set! Thanks for the help @metagloria.bsky.social The challenge - no pure charades - &lits aplenty and a couple cheeky DDs and CDs for good measure. Sink your teeth into it and let me know how you do! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3670

Cryptic crossword No 3,670 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,670 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Fri 10 Jul 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

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Breaking my "biweekly puzzle drop" rule to bring you what I strongly feel is my best work on MyC yet. See if you agree! Bard can eke out lively movement? (10) President is trying to suppress healthcare (9) Shredded agent has place surrounded (6) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3671

Cryptic crossword No 3,671 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,671 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 30 clues by metagloria. Published Fri 10 Jul 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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Late night cryptic party, come hang out! twitch.tv/metagloria

C, E.G.? (5,5) (It doesn't *really* work but I like the idea of it anyway)

Saturday Times quick, what on earth 🤯

Another great puzzle from Ben!

Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social · last mo.

Latest on @mycrossword.co.uk ! As a tester said; "1a is a banger" - hopefully the rest follow suit! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3646 Thanks @metagloria.bsky.social for testing !! Crooked Don, help my defense hub! (5,4) One shy, nearly, or thereabouts (3) Within moot points, a gem (9)

In case any of you Brits have insomnia, or any of you Yanks never have evening streams to watch, I'm going to solve some recent MyC puzzles over on twitch. If you stop by and ask me to solve a puzzle or yours, I definitely will! twitch.tv/metagloria

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Solving some recent MyC puzzles!

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Biweekly puzzle drop! Tried a little something new. Thanks to the excellent @bendawes.bsky.social for testing and helping refine a clue or two. One might see us rebuilding places of worship (7-6) Fling from part of Australia is ongoing (7) and more! www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3641

Cryptic crossword No 3,641 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,641 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 29 clues by metagloria. Published Fri 3 Jul 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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Amusing error/easter egg I discovered while setting: If you try to search for the definition of LOGIN on the Collins dictionary website, it thinks you *want to* log in...

New grid! I've been working hard on trying to hone my clues to be "publishable" (in a very general sense) so if you have the time to try it out and leave a comment it would mean the world! mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3625

Cryptic crossword No 3,625 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,625 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 25 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Mon 29 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

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I'm just as good a solver as Andy Fisher!* (*relative to myself)

Try out my latest cryptic on MyCrossword! Not being numerical is a quite vital failing (11) Thanks to @henriwords.com and @metagloria.bsky.social for testing mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3603

Cryptic crossword No 3,603 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,603 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 30 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Tue 23 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

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Time for my biweekly puzzle drop. Thanks to @tpgrammar.bsky.social for the test solve and feedback! mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3595

Cryptic crossword No 3,595 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,595 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 30 clues by metagloria. Published Sat 20 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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I have another full grid clued and ready to go... ...but I'm not gonna post it this week. I just posted a grid last week, and I think "a puzzle a week" is too lofty an expectation for myself. But a puzzle every other week? That's probably achievable.

Cryptic crosswords have been one of many hobbies I obsess over in waves, but now MyCrossword makes it so much easier to make them than my old "spreadsheet mangling" methods... Anyway, I made another! mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3560

Cryptic crossword No 3,560 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,560 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 28 clues by NoBadWeather. Published Wed 10 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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In my younger, more avant-garde days, I inflicted this monstrosity upon my solvers 1A/20A/33A: In extension of letter, Krautrock band with one extremely minuscule grain tower filled with birch evenly at convention on crust cracker sees two separated by ones outside with black lung (45)

I want to hear how you approach setting! Do you wait for inspiration to strike, like "Ooh I just came up with a great clue for GARDENIA" and then start building a grid around that? Do you have a go-to theme that helps you seed grids? How do you avoid painting yourself into a corner? Etc.

Really impressed with a couple of new puzzles from this setter this week. Highly recommended! mycrossword.co.uk/NoBadWeather

NoBadWeather (Ben Dawes) · MyCrossword

Made for cryptic crossword enthusiasts, MyCrossword is a free platform for creating and publishing your own puzzles.

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Hi everyone! Thanks for all the follow-backs so far, I'm delighted to see how the cryptic community is thriving on this site. Today I bring you my second submitted puzzle to MyCrossword. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think! mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3540

Cryptic crossword No 3,540 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,540 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 28 clues by metagloria. Published Fri 5 Jun 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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