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Not many UKers get into them, but USian cryptics generally aim to use abbreviations only in current or recent usage.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I remember some good times marching around the living room to Around the World with my preschoolers

Well, thanks!

Haha, ‘Masterpiece’ is fantastic 👏👏👏 very well named, a superb construction

(I somehow guessed the theme before the end, that hardly ever happens! 🙃)

The Gnomon Variety cryptic crosswords

Issue 5 is out now to subscribers! Four new variety cryptics from @henriwords.com, @juffowup.bsky.social and Roger Wolff!
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This weekend my wife & I solved a cryptic xword so good that when we realized what the concept was and how deep it went, we just stared at each other like "omg."

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Scientists should invent a Good Day clock that counts down to everything being fine

Holy shit! The crossword award, The Orcas, added cryptic categories this year and The Gnomon got three nominations!

Give a donation of any size to the Trevor Project and receive a pack of 81 puzzles! (Nine of these are variety cryptics and eight are vanilla cryptics.)

Do it!

A girl standing in the opening of a drainage culvert

TORONTO!! Hwæt!!!

Do you like RIAN JOHNSON do you like the idea of RIAN JOHNSON DOING A MYSTERY because at 6:30 TODAY the Revue is showing Johnson's first and best film, Brick

revuecinema.ca/films/brick/

It is a classic noir story in a shitty SoCal high school. It's so weird and so incredible

Pleased to have compiled today's Times Quick Cryptic.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Maltby has his flashes of genius, but I find there to be at least as many groaners per puzzle, with the groaning coming in many different flavors.

(It's NUCLEI)

And the surface is noting the cryptic "rule" being broken in this grammar

The clue is telling you what we're making the definition be. Indicator on the right.

In a recent Gnomon I had
> Making the definition be middle parts in clue? That's no good!
[enumerations were withheld in this puzzle, but this is a (6)]

TMNZ has some of my all time fav moments and contestants, it's absolutely fantastic.

Jason Schreier · 8m @jasonschreier.bsky.social Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes (This was summer 2023 I think)

It feels like you've already figured out the better wording "if I were to quit" which suits both the cryptic and surface perfectly, and are for some reason not just using that?

Some clues!

Pair of voters bolstering support for Bosnia's entrance in NATO? (5)

L.A. Rams running
shotgun for an
offensive rush (9)

Non-committal offer of doughnut hole was
bizarre (2,6,4,3)

The Browser Crossword Existing member? Access our archive here. We’re sad to announce that we’re wrapping up the Browser’s Cryptic Crossword at the end of 2025. Since 2021, The Browser has been proud to publish a weekly ...

Bittersweet to announce that @jessshulman.bsky.social and I did the second-to-last Browser. Edited as always by the wonderful @danfeyer.bsky.social
www.thebrowser.com/crossword

I have so much print on my bookshelves; one thing I like about AVCX is being able to feel like I'm not missing out without taking up more space. (Also, I just prefer solving online, though probably for not unrelated reasons.)

Oh please don’t make anything a print exclusive

I enjoy their cryptics

genuinely insane for the new york times to call a new york accent a "mispronunciation"

In a UK daily, you’re making a puzzle named Cryptic #12,554 or whatever. I can’t imagine a format more well suited to making it as “of the now” as possible. People don’t go back and solve the backlog, and if they do finding clues of their time will be the charm of it.

As a quick appetizer before the December issue, we have a holiday themed puzzle from @illogicaljoker.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social .
This one's free, and might be light and breezy enough to spread the good word of variety cryptics to your family if you happen to be seeing them this week.