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Licensee at the Ferryboat inn Felixstowe and cryptic crossword nut. Used to blow things up professionally.
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I set today(28th)’s #cryptic #crossword in The Independent. Solve free online here: https://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent?puzzleDate=20250628

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

You have to love it when it's 10pm you're leaving to go to Italy in the morning and you've left your passports at work. Oh dear doesn't quite cover it. At least my manager has found them and is sending them via taxi. Good god do I need a holiday, stress levels off the charts

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

We were born on a planet abundant enough for everyone to thrive… But the rich and powerful carved it up, waged war on what they couldn’t own, called it scarcity …and sold us the illusion that we must compete for crumbs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 27 comments

The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... There's space for five names in the submission boxes. Let's go with: Exxon Mobil BP Shell Equinor Chevron At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve. Pls retweet!

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

As I said on the show today, the word to watch is ‘obliterated’. It’s his ‘alternative fact’ (aka bare-faced lie) & the acolytes are programmed to repeat it until it becomes the accepted but still utterly false narrrative. Most media still can’t process the completeness of the corruption.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Sometimes they navigate watercourses, following fish (2-7) My puzzle today in The Independent, free at puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti... #cryptic #crossword

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I set today's Daily Telegraph back-page cryptic www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/ Delayed at traffic lights maybe, point and play (7,3,5) What cleaning a lamp might do for maverick (4,6) Caught changing in lavatory, should she have foreseen that? (11)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sample clue from today's Knut cryptic crossword in the Indy: Famous figure Willy Russell last seen in court (6) puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

There's a detailed blog of this puzzle here: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/06/24/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sprawling out on Alice's huge sofa (6,6) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Is this starting to make sense to anybody yet? boothbygraffoe.bandcamp.com/track/tfaycd

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This should not be happening anywhere, let alone in the U.S. This must stop.

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

Meanwhile... my bro is 280km down. 70km to go. On one lung. www.followmychallenge.com/live/rapha/m... It's not too late to sponsor him! link in the quote tweet...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My latest puzzle is up, featuring: Tense in registry office, Gok Wan’s distinctive intonation (5) Evacuation applies to Olympic crowds (5) Spot cream cakes in comms department (8) Many thanks as always to Raider @mycrossword.co.uk #cryptic #crossword www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2502

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Just when you thought, the weather is great, customers are filling the place, things are fine. The bloody gas pumps which allow us to serve lager and real ale have died on our busiest day. I do wonder if I murdered nuns in a previous life and karma is coming to get me.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

New PM cryptic out on @mycrossword.co.uk's new, improved mycrossword.co.uk. Including: Can force sink ship? (10) The river's home to one of them (5) Colonist, with relief, welcoming Cape settler (7) www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2496

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I set today’s Guardian cryptic crossword. There’s a fair bit of mischief in this one: Fresh lube added to a great deal of joy (6) Brockwell is with wee Glaswegian getting mischievous (6) £500 cash to smuggle kilo (6) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

My grandson has just been informed he has a penalty parking against him. Impressive. He has no licence let alone a vehicle or motorbike. I can only assume his boots were parked illegally.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments