@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social
Crossword-botherer, aka Amoeba, Weatherman, and Tango. Also anonymously in the Times and Telegraph.
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialI GOT ONE ON TUESDAY MUM
@willsnow8.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialBranch without the first letter - ranch? (3)
I set today’s Independent crossword, honouring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Find it here - puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialVery bittersweet seeing so many excellent setters having their final Independent puzzles published.
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialI feel like it'd be quite easy for their systems to flag a discrepancy like this!
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialI once had a massive energy bill because our actual reading was lower than the estimate. The system had assumed we'd gone right up to 99999 back round to the actual...
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialWeatherman returns to today's Telegraph Toughie, with clues like: Picket about change to salaried work (8,4) Get it wherever you get your Toughies!
@twm-barlwm.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialI set today’s Independent cryptic, which, bafflingly, ends on October 31st. Let's hope this historic crossword can be revived in some form.
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
Leaves with bags of Quavers (5,5)
What could be future of X site? It’s spurned (5)
(Ghost creme, I mean theme. LOL!)
@guineverecryptic.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialMark’s talk through of the final puzzle - good on him getting this up so soon, despite the disappointment of not winning!
@archelina.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialJoin us soon to help solve crosswords by Ark @abdvl.bsky.social and Ronyon!
@heroncrosswords.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialTurnstone is filling the Quiptic spot today. Hope it’s a nice Sunday solve!
Delighted to have compiled this weekend's Economist cryptic crossword. Sample clues:
Reform gent, denied Government, blames this? (13)
Nationalist soldier the French lock up (6,2,3)
New hotel outguesses its competition? (11)
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialYeah I'm just not seeing it
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialAlas still no
@mickhodgkin.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialCryptic solving as a spectator sport: the final of the Times Crossword Championship, followed by the prizegiving, will be streamed live at 3.30 today and will also available to watch back after the event.
www.youtube.com/live/uruPHke...
@clairebennie.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialLazy 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)
@guineverecryptic.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.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)
@unchcrosswords.comReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialJust a heads-up that we are very nearly sold out of Issue 4.
If you still haven't got one, now would be a good time!
Issue 5 is on the way, too.
To buy a copy or to sign up to the mailing list to find out when the next one's out, visit the website:
@guineverecryptic.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialAnyone 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!)
@knutcrosswords.bsky.socialReposted by @amoebacrosswords.bsky.socialI set today's Quick Cryptic in The Times if you fancy a swifty