If you still need your online crosswording fix, the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service will be departing from its usual platform at noon, with MyCrossword puzzles by @metagloria.bsky.social, @duncanjwitham.bsky.social & Taceo, plus Vanilla if I have the time! www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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fiend in feline shape -~ they/he -~ mainly just replacement streams for twitch.tv/crypticsunday -~ still not panthchesh

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 2w ago

No #CrypticSunday stream today as we're only half here, so to speak. There's a real life meetup next month though! All cryptic friends including via @unchcrosswords.com etc welcome, not just Twitch folk www.wyrd.systems/pages/crypti...

Not to worry, #CrypticSunday folks, you can all come round mine instead - there will be MyCrossword puzzles by Temple, @henriwords.com & @ozpiper.bsky.social, then possibly even a fourth if I decide I'm feeling foolish enough! See you at noon: www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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fiend in feline shape -~ they/he -~ mainly just replacement streams for twitch.tv/crypticsunday -~ still not panthchesh

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Matt@wyrd.systems · last mo.

No #CrypticSunday this week. Hopefully back next Sunday! // @archelina.bsky.social @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social

I made a point of tackling some MyCrossword debut puzzles this afternoon, three of which had had no other takers, and can highly recommend Doughnut's #3579 as being damn good fun; it's on a theme that I know many here will enjoy, and it's for the most part tightly set, bar some light shenanigans...

this Labour Government has largely presided over the sharpest uptick in racial, religious, and LGBT+ violence in my lifetime and it's hard to really stress just how much Labour actively chose this

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

And sadly, there will be no #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service because my body's been on the blink again and I'm afraid I don't think I'm up to it. If you're in need of some bank holiday fun, though, plenty of puzzles have gone up on MyCrossword this week, and you should go solve some!

Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not streaming today sorry, busy bank hol weekend here! #CrypticSunday

Oh, we'll absolutely be doing this celebratory puzzle on the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service at noon, along with some of yesterday's bumper crop of crosswords - @davidjsiron.bsky.social, @duncanjwitham.bsky.social and (time-allowing) @rkempley.bsky.social. www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No #CrypticSunday stream today, sorry! In other news... www.mycrossword.co.uk/quick/373

Well wishes your way, of course, and if folks have nothing better to do with their own long weekends, they can pop round mine at noon for a #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service feat. @andrewt.net, Ozpiper, Baz and maybe a puzzle from yesterday if I have the time: www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No #CrypticSunday stream today sorry, I am making the most of the long weekend by being ill instead 😞🤧

Technically I'm indisposed, but I'm also stubborn and (already) bored, so there will be a #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service come noon. I might just stick to the two puzzles by @evilflea.bsky.social & @duncanjwitham.bsky.social, though; we'll see how we go. www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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fiend in feline shape -~ they/he -~ mainly just replacement streams for twitch.tv/crypticsunday -~ still not panthchesh

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 5mo ago

No #CrypticSunday stream today as there are mums to visit etc, but should be back next week!

The bad news is that I had to spend the day in various hospital waiting rooms; the good news is that I've caught up with so, *so* many of the crosswords that I've been meaning to do, plus I helped a fellow patient complete the Times Quick Cryptic, much to his delight. So, you know, silver linings.

With the stage-sharing part of @humanitygame.bsky.social shutting down at the end of the month (boo!), I've been playing it again to tidy up my wips: partly to achieve my old goal of having a stage for every background and partly so I can finally answer a long-forgotten question about my stage names

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

Probably should have given a few minutes warning, but I've just started! www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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Inquisitor 1947: Four-Letter Word by Cranberry

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Panthera@pantherapuzzles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I threatened this on Sunday, but here's some (belated) confirmation - I'm going to stream my solve of this live on Twitch tomorrow, starting ~2pm. I'll also be saving the vod to upload later, like I've done with my previous Inquisitor solves, so folks can watch my unedited floundering at any time...

I threatened this on Sunday, but here's some (belated) confirmation - I'm going to stream my solve of this live on Twitch tomorrow, starting ~2pm. I'll also be saving the vod to upload later, like I've done with my previous Inquisitor solves, so folks can watch my unedited floundering at any time...

CranberryFez@cranberryfez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Cranberry today: "Four-Letter Word", #Inquisitor 1947 in @theipaper.com. Many thanks to @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social & team!

Inspired by @cranberryfez.bsky.social's recommending of Fossil's debut, the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service will feature puzzles by folks who are new to me, including @bendrobinson.bsky.social & @fimjishwick.bsky.social (maybe Kempley too?). See you at noon! www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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fiend in feline shape -~ they/he -~ mainly just replacement streams for twitch.tv/crypticsunday -~ still not panthchesh

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No stream today as we're visiting family, sorry! #CrypticSunday

When it arrived this morning, Lionel very happily posed with @unchcrosswords.com issue 2... and then he realised it had Catnip in it, so he's had his nose stuck in it ever since. *ba-dum-tish*

This is also why people react so badly to self-described centrists making pronouns in bio jokes, you're providing rhetorical space for this radicalisation.

I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable. A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"

There will be a #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do with myself come noon, but I am nowhere near organised enough to tell you what I'll be tackling then. Anything from the past week of MyCrossword puzzles is fair game! twitch.tv/pantherapuzzles

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 7mo ago

No #CrypticSunday stream tomorrow as we're still a bit all over the place. Back in 2026, sending love to all our cryptic friends and a big good riddance to 2025!

Delighted to discover that there actually is at least one family of pangrammatic mini grid fills that uses SKIBIDI, and that it honestly comes off comparatively well against its kin from the dregs of Chambers...

me, a week ago: look, i love the process of making thematically-dense grids, but it's tricky, time-consuming and sometimes sisyphean. this time i think i'll do a perimeter nina with a handful of optional bonus entries instead me, now: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Rannygazoo, let's have a tune! Specifically, one you could bookend thus: Colin? He runs a lab, right? (6) All the bad stuff you've been caught doing online! (6) When I count three, you can solve on MyCrossword, but be warned - afterwards, you may need a lie-down! mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2895

Cryptic crossword No 2,895 · MyCrossword

Solve Cryptic crossword No 2,895 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 30 clues by Panthera. Published Thu 27 Nov 2025. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.

If you're planning on dabbling in the occult this Halloween, you might get something out of my latest exercise in Mini grid filling. Granted, that "something" might be "a dreadful pun", but still... Checks sides of sofa, presumably wanting money (7) mycrossword.co.uk/mini/162

Mini crossword No 162 · MyCrossword

Solve Mini crossword No 162 on MyCrossword. 7x7 grid with 8 clues by Panthera. Published Fri 31 Oct 2025. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

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You thought you could escape York through the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service? Think again - come 12pm, I'll be tackling the Platypus @henriwords.com curated for the event! Plus: puzzles from @evilflea.bsky.social & @cranberryfez.bsky.social, then maybe a fourth? twitch.tv/pantherapuzzles

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I'm pleased to report that Lionel has got his paws on the wonderful @unchcrosswords.com - we had the pleasure of testing the very clever barred puzzle "Unch #1" by @cranberryfez.bsky.social that appears in the middle of the magazine, and now he gets to show it off to little Louie!

This gives the impression that he was helping. He was not.

Unch Crosswords@unchcrosswords.com · 10mo ago

He's a busy boy...

Dehumanisation as policy. It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will. It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades. news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

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Paws crossed we can pull off a nice, smooth raid like proper Twitch streamers do... I'll definitely be tackling @davidjsiron.bsky.social's latest, and then depending on what time's left I think either a handful of minis or the Gennaro from earlier in the week? We'll see how things go!

Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Just one crossword for us today on #CrypticSunday (but hoping to hand over seamlessly to @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social after that.) Join us at 12 to help solve a new one by @tpgrammar.bsky.social! twitch.tv/crypticsunday