One aiming to hit shambolic HS2 operator? (12) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Tremble in fear -- it's a group of cobras (6)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/20f81... #snakes #cobras #fear #cryptic #CrypticCrosswords

Hello to crosswordy followers who've found me through the #cryptic starter pack. I'm Trurl in @newscientist.com and I set the quiz crosswords in History Today, BBC Wildlife and a bunch of others. I also do THIS. bsky.app/profile/rsmy...

Brain fuel for the weekend ☕️

Alarm as unfinished pact sees Northern Ireland invade (5)

Set by noah

Best solved slowly.

Play at https://coffeecryptics.com/s/:4wYrZyAV8fJ4XTdp

#cryptic #crossword

Got a Russian leader's diesel transported (8) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Carrier pigeons and singing telegrams hide a true purpose? (7)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/fd871... #telegrams #cryptic

The answer in rot13:

Onpxebbzf
rot13.com

The construction is a bit cheeky (pun intended) but I think worth it for the surface reading

#cryptic #crypticcrossword

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

How to spell my name (5)
#cryptic #crossword

Lazy weekend? Why not try my Rookie Corner crossword (and tell me the theme) including:

Tom's Diner rewritten in the style of Virginia Woolf (9)

crypticcrosswords.net/puzzles/rook... #cryptic #crossword

DAY 9 copycat
I’d like to think that a skinwalker start to lose there original human form the more and more they use there power to end up as these beings that now hide as they fear to ever see their reflection unknowing what will look back #inktober #cryptic #art 

Weekend puzzle time ☕️

The most populated country contains 11111 islands? (9)

Set by Rook

Can you solve it?

Play at https://coffeecryptics.com/s/:-4zWxZ2mrM-5psml

#cryptic #crossword

He forgot I had ordered another drink (4,2,3,3) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: A well-substantiated set of rules, about several ravens born from distrust (10, 6)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/f90af... #Ravens #rules #cryptic #CrypticCrosswords

Anyone not there in person, here is the link to watch the Times Crossword Championship Semi-final and Final - live with commentary!

If you are going, I look forward to seeing you! (I’ll be spectating as a setter if that wasn’t obvious 😂 I’m way too slow a solver!)

#cryptic #crossword

Do I do the thing I want to do, or the thing I should do? I want to do the should think but maybe not now. But it’s logical to do the should thing now. #cryptic

Today's Coffee Cryptic ☕️

Initially, it appeared after USSR collapsed! (6)

Set by Rook

Just enough puzzle to wake the brain up.

Play at https://coffeecryptics.com/s/:-ObRUBzGVe_SKgoM

#cryptic #crossword