Ryan Patrick Smith

Thanks, Aaron! Enjoyed your Sep. 1 Crossweird offering, btw; my fave clues were 13A, 1D, 4D + 17D 👌

A 13x8 cryptic crossword grid (a lattice of black and white squares). It's titled "Pets in Hats," was written by Ryan Patrick Smith, and was published by Cryptic Crossweird.

Making my Cryptic Crossweird debut today! I hope fans of #cryptic #crossword #puzzles will consider subscribing to solve my and others' work: www.patreon.com/cw/CrypticCr...

Sample clues from my puzzle:
5A Clownish activity out of Quantico (5)
10A Small subatomic particle often overlooked (5,2)

A Slide + Seek tile sliding puzzle. In its scrambled form, the grid reads PISPRO, SACHAB, KYNTED, EOTESS, DEOO, LAOR.

Happy fall, #puzzle people! 🎃 I've just published a new Slide + Seek sliding puzzle for your amusement: realpuzzlingstuff.com/slide-seek-9/

Hope it makes for a fun diversion from my usual #crossword fare and everything slides into place for you! 👀

Puzzmo - Cross|word Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.

Back in Puzzmo today, #puzzle peeps: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Hope you enjoy the #crossword! 😊

@puzzmo.com #Puzzmo

Excited to be debuting in the newly launched Daily Baffle today! The format of my #puzzle is called Morphology and will be up the alley of anyone who enjoys a good word ladder 🙂

If you've had fun with my #crossword puzzles, give it a look: dailybaffle.com/morphology

Thx to Julian for having me!

A gondola lit from within sits at the edge of a cliff in the blue expanse of the Sacred River region.

The Wraith gets some air riding a shark as blue and pink hues collide in the sky above.

The Wraith's blue flame resembles the blue light in the right half of the image, while the red flame of an engraved serpent's eye illuminates the left half of the image.

The bones of ancient sea creatures litter a flooded cave, as do stalactites, stalagmites, and red kelp. In the foreground, the Wraith rides a live plesiosaur.

Finished #SwordOfTheSea last night! 🗡🌊 Really lovely little game (abrupt ending notwithstanding)

#VirtualPhotography

Relieved to know I'm not alone in this haha. And now TSA doesn't even make me remove them from my messenger bag most of the time — score!

Two Muscovy ducks (brown with red growths around the eyes) stand at the flagstoned edge of Lake Mueller, off of whose rippling surface the setting sun reflects.

A sea monster statue with a glowing blue eye, captured in profile at the edge of Mueller Lake Park. The surrounding trees match its chartreuse belly, while its blue back is mirrored by the cloud cover overhead. Just past the statue, a woman in yellow sits on a bench in a playground, her back to the camera.

Muscovy ducks + sea serpent statue by Mueller Lake in Austin #photography

In his hooded jacket and exoskeletal legs, Sam looks out over the shadowed expanse of the desert as the setting sun pokes through thick cloud cover far in the distance.

The way the weather evolves in this game is just *chef's kiss* 😍

#DeathStranding #DeathStranding2 #VirtualPhotography

Drops of Color - Real Puzzling Stuff 68-Across: Pop artist/AIDS activist Keith

Just pubbed a quirky new #crossword puzzle to my blog: realpuzzlingstuff.com/drops-of-col...

Hope y'all get a kick out of the theme. 🙂

19A: Recent Best Picture winner with an acronymic title (4 letters)
28D: Xmas transmission, maybe (5 letters)

The Wraith (the player character) leaps from a mossy rooftop as ocean fauna glide by below.

A zoomed-out view of a vast chamber in which schools of tropical fish drift by and broad shafts of sun stream in through holes in the ceiling.

The Wraith looks into the camera, at rest in a patch of shade in a canyon. Two waterfalls appear behind her.

Crouched, the Wraith rides an orca with dozens of white fish on all sides.

Don't sleep on #SwordOfTheSea, the latest beautiful adventure from Giant Squid Games!

The undulating landscapes and smooth snowboard-y traversal go together like PB & J, and @awintory.bsky.social delivers as always with a rich, enthralling score. 🐬

Do we get any elaboration? 😅

The Daggerheart Core Rulebook, its cover adorned with sunset hues and a range of different sample characters in action, sits beside the box of colorful cards needed to play.

Just unboxed the #Daggerheart starter set 👀 Excited to get acquainted!

Read anything by a woman challenge, difficulty: impossible

If you see this, post a knight!

From LA and visit frequently, tho I'm based in Austin these days. Developing a cooperative sci-fi game with a friend! (Also, my copy of the Daggerheart starter pack just arrived, and I'm pumped to dive in)

Your smile is so pretty

Pretty eyes!

Congrats! Enjoyed the theme

A human in a Psycho mask in profile on the striking Borderlands 4-themed red cover of the latest Game Informer.

An open issue of Game Informer showing two profiles from Summer Game Fest, on Mixtape and Sword of the Sea.

An open issue of Game Informer showing a mix of atmospheric and action shots from the new Borderlands, alongside the text of the write-up.

So exciting to have print issues of #GameInformer dropping again! Beautifully produced and solidly written magazines 🎮

Gotta Go Fast - Real Puzzling Stuff 14-Across: Hefty sword akin to a katana

New blog #crossword, friends! I think the theme material here's pretty lively; hope you agree. ✒️

realpuzzlingstuff.com/gotta-go-fast/

1A - Fabric named for a Middle Eastern metropolis (6 letters)
36A - Naturally occurring zigzag (15 letters)

Thanks! Happily, I have more in the pipeline, so you'll get your wish :)

Puzzmo - Cross|word Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.

Excited to be making my @puzzmo.com #crossword debut today! Should be a fairy breezy midi solve 🙂

www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

S/o to @xws.bsky.social for all her editorial guidance!

Looking luminous! Tempted to say transfiguration really did come for you, at last

Well, we are distinct inasmuch as we broke free of nature's checks + balances. We are our own sole meaningful predator; all other life exists at our pleasure now (hell, we've created whole new species just to kill them for food -- don't get me started on that). That power corrupted us long ago.

Big ups to you!

Enjoyed tuning in, as ever! 🙂 Efficiently solved

Oh hey, Chicken Thoughts! The creator of that comic (Sarah Wymer) was a college dormmate of mine. 😊 Lovely humor

Beautiful work

A smiling Sam in jaunty sunglasses stands among verdant foliage in Mexico.

Sam looks out over a shallow stretch of river wending through rough-hewn desert terrain.

His face and hair caked with sand as a sandstorm churns behind him, Sam sticks his tongue out at the camera.

Nightfall in the Mexican desert. Sam grins and gives a thumbs-up as he points to mountains in the near distance.

Visuals and vibes in the new #DeathStranding are immaculate. Can't wait to play more! 🤩 #VirtualPhotography #PhotoMode