Alan Connor

Connections
Puzzle #851
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Unzoomed Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The best music club in West London, I mean the world.

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Solo, ensembles, SEN, supported places.

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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.

!! I genuinely saw something similar this summer in the Museum of Illusions in Bulgaria’s former capital.

What’s the Crown Copyright situation here?

He Ain’t Literally Heavy, He’s My Brother

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

Associate Designer, Games | The New York Times Company

Psst …. Job opening on the funnest team around

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Boris Johnson 2011, urging a cautious response to a gunman:

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Align | Boston Globe Games Play Align, an original word and logic puzzle from The Boston Globe. Challenge yourself to solve the daily word grid in the fastest time, the fewest swaps, or both!

🟠 Align 06/09/2025
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I’ve most recently used ogmp3.

I could picture Borough High St (?)’s bus stops before the image completed its slow load on this train wifi.

In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1921: Friends of Mine by Kruger; Solution 1919: V&A? by Eclogue @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social

I wrote the Jumbo cryptic crossword in today’s Guardian Puzzles Summer Special. It’s a bit of a brute in places:

Whopper made of unknown meat? (5)

Family tent is a big mistake (7)

Rogue wife gatecrashes function (5)

Minimalist style of Soprano family boss (8)

Another roll of the 🎲 for anyone? Bonus Summer Puzzle Pullout in the Guardian today!

The tails of common hipppotami hypntic and inimitable - lovely! (4)

Item used to dry bedraggled owlet (5)

When agitated, God sure complained (7)

…and a lot more summer fun!

Bravo, bring it home!

Exciting times!

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Exciting times!

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Anyone would be forgiven for thinking ‘is there a point to this story?’

My preferred kind of cheeky greengrocer.

Could crosswords be an Olympic sport? British pastime goes global The World Cryptic Crossword Championships organisers are on a mission to get the popular puzzle recognised on the world stage

Crosswords as a spectator sport: my Times report on the first World Cryptic Crossword Championship (in the paper tomorrow) www.thetimes.com/article/c2f7...

Had anyone seen a schedule involving talks?

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