Turnstone is filling the Quiptic spot today. Hope it’s a nice Sunday solve!
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Alys Cummings
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Makes documentaries 🎥 loves crosswords 🖊️ reads novels 📚 writes ✍️ New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate ⬆️ Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic out October 2026 Penguin Michael Joseph 🇬🇧🐧🇬🇧 February 2027 Minotaur 🇺🇸🐂🇺🇸 Lives North East 🌊🌅
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@heroncrosswords.bsky.socialReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.social@alyseliza.bsky.social😂😂😂
@alyseliza.bsky.socialThe Observer and its Everyman crossword have been an important part of my puzzling journey from the beginning, so it was especially lovely to chat to the Observer’s brilliant puzzles editor, Caitlin O’Kane, about Murder Most Cryptic 🧩 🕵🏻♀️ 🖊️
@thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.socialNew #OffGridPod #InTheField in which The General is not asked "What's your favourite track by The Shadows?" https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2026/10/11/in-the-field-ep-82/
@guineverecryptic.bsky.socialReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.socialIf 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)
@alyseliza.bsky.socialDone! ✔️ 😊
@guineverecryptic.bsky.socialReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.socialWould 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!
@alyseliza.bsky.socialHaha! Excellent! 😊😊😊
@alyseliza.bsky.socialHurrah! Thank you 🙏🏻
@alyseliza.bsky.socialIt was brilliant to meet you - thank you so much for coming! 🙏🏻
@unchcrosswords.comReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.socialCongratulations @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.
@alyseliza.bsky.socialThanks Julia!
@alyseliza.bsky.socialHad 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 ❤️
@alyseliza.bsky.socialAh, thank you! 🙏🏻
@thecwa.bsky.socialReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.social📚 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
@theguardian.comReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.social‘I do it because I like it’: Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, on being youngest ever ‘woman grandmaster’
theguardian.com‘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
@alyseliza.bsky.socialVery much looking forward to getting cryptic with the good folk of Barnsley!
@thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alyseliza.bsky.socialThe 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/
@alyseliza.bsky.socialIf 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!
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