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Quick crossword No 280 · MyCrossword Solve Quick crossword No 280 on MyCrossword. 13x13 grid with 28 clues by Coot. Published Sat 9 Aug 2025. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

My first stab at a Quiptic proved surprisingly popular. So here’s another.

All the usual thanks to @mycrossword.co.uk

#Quiptic #crossword

www.mycrossword.co.uk/quick/280

Join me for an afternoon learning how to solve cryptic crossword puzzles in the fine city of Norwich on the 7th September.

Tickets here:

thehollowaynorwich.com/events/RVb6g...

Shares and word of mouth appreciated!

Oooooo

Sorry to be a downer, but I don’t approve of this sort of cunning.
EOTR print shop charges for prints on site. Payment in kind is OK, but not crowdsourcing from indeterminate pool. Find the nearest illustration degree course. Visit end of year show in June. Commission your favourites directly ☺️

No reversal indicators allowed when setting at Norwich Cathedral.

Greetings all from 5a, 1a ☀️

Apparently when the film composer Zimmer was working as a plongeur in a restaurant with the writer of The Office, both felt unable to dispatch a timid mint coloured cephalopod with unusual whiskers.

Goes to show that Hans that do dishes can be soft as Gervais, with mild green hairy lip squid.

Amazing! 🤩

Zoiks!

On the train from Norwich to Liverpool.
Direct service! Longest in England?
All the years I’ve lived in Norwich and made sure I was getting on the train for London Liverpool Street, and not Liverpool Lime Street by mistake!
Heady days!
🛤️

I care. Love it! 👍

That it was hard and mildly unsatisfying. It was fairly clear what the answer was from crossers and then difficult to prove I guess.
I do like the device though.

Ah, yes, looking back there is a QM which I’ve missed out. Sorry!

Had a lovely time meeting up with attendees of my first crossword for beginners workshop on Sunday to do the Quiptic (Harpo).

This clue provoked some interesting discussion.

Young animal left sleeping like a baby (4)

Thoughts?

Cryptic crossword No 1716 Made for cryptic crossword enthusiasts, MyCrossword is a free platform for creating and publishing your own puzzles.

Here’s one I wrote for a puzzle on MyCrossword:

Celeb culture authority slanders ‘rodents’ - all indirectly affected! (4)

Deliberately pushing to see if I could write a fair indirect anagram. Not sure I succeeded!
Reviews were mixed 😅

mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/1716...

20,000 Days On Earth - Nick Cave 20,000 Days on Earth premiered at Sundance, winning two awards – both the Editing and Directing Awards in World Cinema Documentary. The jury describing the film as “being arguably the most exciting fi...

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Happy XX!

You may enjoy this film, made to celebrate the same milestone!

www.nickcave.com/films/20000-...

Crossword Masterclasses Visit the post for more.

FAO aspiring and emerging #crossword compilers! There's one fully funded place available on November's online Masterclass led by @boatmancryptics.co.uk. Applications particularly welcome from groups currently underrepresented in crosswords... boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-ma...

YouTube video by mockyrecordings Mocky - Music Will Explain (Official Visualizer)

This is great.

youtu.be/W0Vl9UtogGQ?...

Sure thing!

Yeah, send me some deets!

Thanks Susie! One of the attendees of my beginners solving class was visiting from London, so I’ll let them know.
You may also get me if there’s a suitable opportunity at some point :)

London based crossword meet up suggestions please :) asking for a friend 👍

Not quite what you’re asking, but I did manage a short clue with only three different letters used, which I found quite pleasing:

Do good, good dog (7)

Lovely stuff. Congrats

Props to BBC breakfast hosts this morning having to segue from Mr Boo the clown stealing the microphone from the reporter in Blackpool Tower circus to announcing the death of Pope Francis.

For sure :) let’s get together soon!

Sounds great. Zoom soon?

A table with paper and pens. Projection of a slide “Cryptic Crosswords for Beginners”

What a lovely time this afternoon at The Holloway in Norwich running a Cryptic Crosswords for Beginners session. Lovely people came. We solved clues and drank tea.

Will definitely do this again!

Great venue. If you’re about in Norwich it’s on St Benedict’s St

#cryptic #crosswords

As a part time crossword setter and a full time academic conference poster design trainer, this is a post I can get behind.

A receipt from the supermarket Asda. There are 26 items each starting with different letter of the alphabet.

Excellent shopping work here from Reddit user u/spacecadet06. Bravo.