@alanconnor.bsky.social
www.alanconnor.com/log/ Author: 188 Words For Rain etc Screenwriter: Borat 2, The Rack Pack etc Compiler: Everyman, House of Games etc Jokes: HIGNFY, Brooker etc Editor: Guardian crossword
Someone doesn’t want to talk about it.
12.02.2026 08:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haggis from Auchtertool Fife with roasted maple-agave neeps, whisky creme fraiche, parsley and caraway tattie scones and an orange, date, radish and rocket salad with an orange blossom dressing.
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Looking like another well-received debut in the Quiptic today from Budmo! Great to see newer solvers getting an accessible step up from the Quick Cryptics, I just love seeing people progressing on their cryptic journeys!
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Security organization backing European nation's capital (4)
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Pick a vexillological lane, Google Featured Snippets.
17.01.2026 18:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
08.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0All the latest cruciverbal news in the January edition of the Crossword Centre newsletter.
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Just this moment introduced on Call My Bluff by Frank Muir as ‘a BEAUTiful little actress’, Gabrielle Drake:
05.01.2026 21:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not aware of criticism. It’s in the paper on the 27th as a bank holiday bonus. If we tried to put it online the website would break so we hope solvers consider it worth paying for.
24.12.2025 11:36 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0It’s been a day of many smiles, I do so love when my puzzles bring enjoyment to people! Thank you everyone who has taken the time to feed back!
This year has been quite a challenge in many ways, which has made the amazing experiences I’ve had in the cryptic world even more valuable. 🥰❤️🎄🎲 Thank you
Puzzlers! Solve a present problem and do your bit for BBC Children in Need Day: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/11/14/3... #BBCChildrenInNeed @rnib.bsky.social
14.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit.
That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.
I worked there.
This response is quite embarrassing.
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Remembering Mary Hansen on her birthday
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Pics of me, David Quantick and the cover of my book Into The Groove: The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History. Waterstones Hastings Wed 22 Oct 2025 at 5pm Tickets £3 in advance Ticket redeemable against cost of the book. Purchase in store or email hastings@waterstones.com to reserve your spot.
I think there are still tickets available for this: I will be talking to the great @quantick.bsky.social about my #IntoTheGroove book and 80s pop history at Waterstones Hastings, this Wednesday at 5pm. www.waterstones.com/events/justi...
19.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 17 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 4Ulp.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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The best music club in West London, I mean the world.
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Solo, ensembles, SEN, supported places.
Please share!
A lot of great things in this auction, but for the modernists out there, here's Allen Tate's annotated first edition, first issue copy of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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For real, it's Crowley Time! Episode 39: The DiPoni Contingency, as seen live on stages throughout the land, is on your podcast app and at crowleytime.com NOW! What happened to Marco DiPoni? Find out with Gemma Arrowsmith and Paul Putner!
@mmaarrow.bsky.social @realpaulputner.bsky.social
Alan Connor and Giles Wilson at the Wanstead Book Festival
The best party of the 2025 @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival was chatting with the great @alanconnor.bsky.social about crosswords, quizzing, Monty Python, Bach, suits, and 100 other things.
28.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0!! I genuinely saw something similar this summer in the Museum of Illusions in Bulgaria’s former capital.
16.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What’s the Crown Copyright situation here?
16.09.2025 19:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He Ain’t Literally Heavy, He’s My Brother
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Quick cryptic in The Times today is a debut by ‘Kybos’
Kybos is a Greek word for a six-sided 🎲 …
Testers are wonderful people who deserve so much ❤️
#cryptic #crossword #isitreal
