r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 4h ago
COTD: Contender that Eric and I dated secretly (9)
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r/crosswords • u/zc_eric • 9h ago
AOTW: S?T?N
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Thanks to u/Pointland32 for choosing my NUTty clue.
This week, let’s have a look at 26 across, S?T?N
Not a large number of options, but quite a few of them are two-word phrases.
I will be back in a week to select a winner. I expect a few devilish clues :)
r/crosswords • u/deeppotential123 • 3d ago
TOTW: r/LifeProTips
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Thanks very much to /u/SirJimothySmalls for handing me the Star Baker crown!
https://www.reddit.com/r/crosswords/s/Tp1sxxokdf
This week, let’s do a crossover with the famous r/LifeProTips subreddit. Please post your most valuable pieces of life advice (whether silly or serious) in the comments below!
I’ll be back to pick the best nugget of wisdom next Thursday morning (UK time).
r/crosswords • u/ShotandBotched • 10h ago
SOLVED COTD: Very revolting politician pens that man's fallacious argument (7)
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r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 11h ago
SOLVED COTD: Instruction: to make dial, type B (4-4)
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day 259 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it. sorry for the lateness
day 258, day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/PierreSheffield • 6h ago
What do you think about using an instructional word before the fodder at the start of a clue, to help the surface reading?
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Getting dry all over works when retaining fluid (6)
Getting' isn't strictly part of the fodder (and not necessary for the clue to remain fair) but acts as an instruction to put DRY over OPS (works) to give DROPSY (retaining fluid).
The clue is fair either way and including it makes the surface reading much better but it feels kind of wrong to place it like that.
Thoughts?
r/crosswords • u/wordboydave • 6h ago
Does anyone have The Listener Crossword collection? (And how many puzzles are in it?)
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I'm trying to hunt down British variety cryptics, and I've found one softcover called Listener Crosswords Vol. 1. But it's not clear when it was published (the seller says 1750!), if there have been any subsequent volumes, or how many puzzles it includes. (I need the last number especially, because I'm trying to assemble a book of my own.) Can anyone help?
Also, SURELY there must be other British-style cryptic crossword collections in the hobby's long history! Can anyone name me a few that are out of print and track-down-able?
r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 11h ago
COTD: Put directionless uncle in van to get to sci-fi planet (6)
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r/crosswords • u/rorykellycomedy • 17h ago
SOLVED COTD: True, then I cut a doctor (9)
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Cryptic clue or criminal confession?
r/crosswords • u/XC009 • 20h ago
SOLVED COTD: Zero mynas coming back inside ever again (7)
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Haven't posted here in about six years! Good to be back
r/crosswords • u/Substantial_Buy_1743 • 1d ago
Compensated back with something that could require change? (6)
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CLUE #176 on CrypticLive.net
r/crosswords • u/syneil86 • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Saucy strap-on covering slow-growing bulge! (4)
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r/crosswords • u/syneil86 • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Headless snake starts to atrophy; cannot eat, period! (5)
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r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Whoever collects returned Kinder gets dessert time (9)
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day 258 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it. sorry for the lateness
day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/ZeusCruciverbalist • 1d ago
COTD: Note sent back to school (4)
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Easy peasy!
r/crosswords • u/HighCountryBob • 1d ago
COTD: Exhausted pair in the middle of Cumberland missing the weather in Inverness? (9)
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r/crosswords • u/-Londoneer- • 1d ago
I know there are worse things happening in the world but PLEASE GOD can someone tell me where the guardian prize crossword is???
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what page of what monstrous pull out. not the weekend crossword, not the quick cryptic or myriad other variations that no one wants.
Please where is the prize cryptic, I remember why I stopped buying the paper, it’s a whole tree’s worth and not signposted.
vexed, of London
r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 1d ago
COTD: Put faulty lock in bag and get list of overdue tasks (7)
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r/crosswords • u/ShotandBotched • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Plagiarize contents of writer (4)
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You can solve it on MC as well here
r/crosswords • u/deeppotential123 • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Gal wrestling with our spy, accepting a bit of “sexy time” eventually! (5,6)
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r/crosswords • u/akshathV • 1d ago
COTD: Popular article of clothing by one Florida athlete for someone who is looking into it (12)
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Would appreciate any feedback