Weekend crossword for Dec 6th 2025
A weekend crossword based on the week’s news
Back in @economist.com today as Playfair. Featuring:
Churning butter bestriding revolutionary medieval machine (9)
Urgency in Buddha’s teachings? (5)
Director, sailor and soldier in love (9)
www.economist.com/interactive/...
06.12.2025 14:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Same. I do the Bill Patterson intros too.
04.12.2025 17:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great pseudonym! #avfc
04.12.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for all your help @henriwords.com !
01.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you kindly!
30.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to appearing as Bard in the next issue of @unchcrosswords.com !
(And in fine company too!)
29.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just cancelled my Adobe membership after so many years - used to buy it in disc form. Took a lot of clicks! (yes I’m sure, yes I’m sure etc etc).
Had to download my files 10 at a time (seriously?)
Freeeeeeedom!
27.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Mark!
27.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cover of Unch Issue 2 (jan 2026). text reads "Unch: the clued-up crossword magazine". the main image is an multicolour pattern with empty white squares with 3d-effect trails of blue, yellow and pink.
Issue 2 available for (pre)sale now: unchcrosswords.com
26.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 4
Lecturing about design literacy for the first time today on a new MSc module in Science Communication at UEA and got sketched by one of the students!
This is how straight I think my nose is. Others may disagree.
25.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weekend crossword for Nov 22nd 2025
A weekend crossword based on the week’s news
Back in the @economist.com crossword today as Playfair. Featuring:
Dating app where Canadian swinger bags Frenchman (6)
US President after Auntie’s money, initially journalist surprised (8)
Confirmation of holiday cover for head of chemistry (10)
www.economist.com/interactive/...
22.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s one I wrote recently…
Scruffy boat and Royal Navy ship interlocked - handles awkwardly! (6)
20.11.2025 11:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Definitely sample the crosswords while you’re here :) have a great trip!
19.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you can adapt to British puzzles, there’s loads of high quality free ones online (Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, MyCrossword)
19.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unch Crossword Magazine
Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine
Hi there - UNCH is a new independent magazine with British style cryptics (pretty different from NYT). The writers are (all/mostly?) setters in British newspapers (but not necessarily all British writers). I’ve solved all the setters before, so knew it would be great!
unchcrosswords.com#about
19.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Greetings from Bergen @unchcrosswords.com ❄️
Just finished an excellent puzzle by @liari.bsky.social
19.11.2025 10:35 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
Thanks to YouTube Music for offering up a tesselating bleak landscape of forgotten musical favourites. Spooky.
14.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ay there’s the rub.
07.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rowing team almost dunked in water - oh well! (5-2)
07.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
What was it?
07.11.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
That’s incredible.
The annotation makes it. This is what I tell my students - tell the story IN the figure.
06.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Genius crossword No 269
Deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT on Saturday 29 November. You need to register once and then sign in to theguardian.com to enter our online competition for a £100 monthly prize
Well blimey it’s been an exciting few days for this puzzle. Lots of head scratches, penny drops and some brilliant feedback.
Thanks indeed to everyone that’s followed me since or sent me a message about it. This crossword community is ace.
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2...
06.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheers Rob! 👍
05.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s grid on one side and ruled on the other…. Very useful. Uncoated paper obvs.
04.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My wife made it for me and got it printed :)
04.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Love scribbling in my grid pad!
I’d open crossword compiler a bit more if I didn’t have to run a virtual windows machine to run it 🤢
04.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s not easy. Gave it a go.
I’ve ended up with a lot of fours.
Would probably do some eight letter clues in those!
04.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you @mister-norm.bsky.social !
04.11.2025 09:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graduate student & two-time cryptic crossword setter from Taiwan. Feline at mycrossword.co.uk
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Still not a literary agent…
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Can still name more than six songs by 2 Unlimited
How should I possibly know what we should do?
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
he/him. York, UK.
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Ex UK gov economist incl 2 years in Euro Parl econ & monetary cttee. Normandy. Level 1 umpire. Semi-veggie.
EN & FR (DE after beer). Views personal etc. Glamorgan CCC fan.Welsh. And French
Born at 325ppm
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Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic published October 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph 🐧
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Freelance software engineer currently retired/between contracts. In a previous life, a chemist. Cryptic crossword addict
Amateur cryptic person, blinded by the lights.
Has also been spotted at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Wildvale
Professor of energy and administrative law, crossword, music and fútbol lover. LeoNessie on My Crossword (mycrossword.co.uk). Posts are not endorsements.
Gamedev @ Tributary Games. Technical Lead on King of the Castle and Occlude. Recently doing a lot of cryptic clues
Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
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