Macaroni @crypticmacaroni.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords 🐧
Big Puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Macaroni
Little Puzzles: https://crosshare.org/macaroni
Endless rain, mac on, stirring pasta (8)
Mary Unfaithful✔️ @themaryunfaithful.bsky.social In with the out crowd.
Cloud Cöökööland.
https://www.instagram.com/themaryunfaithful?utm_source=qr
🍁 Left of Woke Warrior @wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social When someone tells you who they are or what they'll do (e.g., Poi-LIE-vre), believe them the first time. 😼
Me: 1st gen 🇳🇱 immigrant, feminist, She/Her, cis, trans ally, vegan, cat/book lover, anti-wealth, tax the billionaires and churches, + vote ABC!
Nick Wolfe Brown @nickwolfebrown1.bsky.social I appreciate intelligent people I learn things from.
AL the editor @altheeditor.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader and picture researcher. SFF über-geek. http://bluebamboo.org.uk
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
@sisyphus06.bsky.social @sisyphus06.bsky.social 
Cogs @cogsturn.bsky.social I set and talk about Cryptic Crosswords!
Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CogsTurn
Solve the puzzles: https://cogs-turn.com/
Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social Eventually the complete works of Wittgenstein, posted out of sequence. A bot by jodonjo.bsky.social. Will reply with fresh quotes.
Listifications @listifications.app Follow me to receive notifications via DM whenever you're added to a starter pack, block list, feed or when someone blocks your account.
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social Caffeinated forensic linguist researching deception in authorship style and faked (con)texts.Visiting Research Fellow, AIFL. 🇪🇺 🖖
#Humanist #ForensicLinguistics #Eurosky
Diana @witchyd.bsky.social early 30s white trans woman who's a bit of a shut-in
Liari @liari.bsky.social Crossword setter - as Liari (The Independent, Unch); Apus (Times QC); Pavo (Guardian); Potoroo (w/ Umpire, Telegraph Toughie); Myself (Telegraph, Bonmo and elsewhere).
Unch magazine editorial team.
Super-duper Independent crossword setter? (5)- A Someone @aneuroticsomeone.bsky.social Profile temporarily semi-private for...reasons.
If we interacted in the past, you should have no problem associating an identity. DM if unsure.
Hopefully the storm will end soon.
Looking for friends, but booze recipes will do just as fine.
Joyzzle @joyzzle.bsky.social Crosswords reimagined.
www.joyzzle.com/play
Rae of Sunshine @mmedebeauvoir.eurosky.social Lawyer linguist 🇪🇺 living and working in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Knitter. Sewist. Baker. Cat lady. Socialist. Feminist. #LFC. European. Bad-tempered. Foul-mouthed 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇧🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷. Views are mine. Posts will be 98% #knitting, #baking, #sewing, and kittens.
Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy He/him/his. Writing code for a living for 35 years and counting. I've lived in England, Minnesota, and (currently) Aotearoa New Zealand :laserkiwi:.
Married with two […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.nz/@rupert, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
💧🌿🐋Marie-Helene 😎 @mielmbah.bsky.social Bretonne in Australie. Work in a library. Love books, riding my bike on the rail trail, spoil my 2 grand kids. Slave to 20yo Oscar … bossy as😼
New to BlueSky and in search of kindred spirits 💚🐸🐋🌱🌿💧😎
I live in Bundjalung Country
Pozorvlak @pozorvlak.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy Janeite STEMbro, relapsing mathematician, nervous mountaineer, abundance-pilled environmentalist. Fan of compilers, love/hate relationship with build systems.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mathstodon.xyz/@pozorvlak, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social Here for art, books, film, music, comedy, food, football, cricket, history, old newspapers, birds, mountains and more.
@gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social @gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social 
Bean N. Curling @beancurling.bsky.social Studied art in the Big Eighties
Afraid of DMs. Pennsylvanian.
The Yak Had Been Told Not to Talk Back.
It Can't Be Easy To Hang a Giraffe In a Cheap Hotel Room...
Available at Amazon.
Mohammed Miah @reftm.bsky.social Retired
Richard James @richardjameschess.bsky.social Chess player, organiser, teacher, writer, historian. Investigating the intersection between chess and childhood.
Reading old newspapers so that you don't have to.
Also crosswords, music (classical & folk), genealogy etc.
https://richard915.substack.com
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
RR @rlrossi64.bsky.social Pack it up, pack it in; let me begin. Former teacher/school leader/SENDCo currently exploring Schrödinger’s retirement. Books. Cryptic Crosswords. Football.
Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social Programmer (sometimes games, currently mostly not) and former microbiologist. Brit in Germany. Likes cats, tabletop RPGs, and F1. Trans rights are human rights.
Matt McQueen @mattmcqueen63.bsky.social Basketball Fan, Software Developer, Reader, Writer, Coffee Drinker. https://www.matt-also-writes.com/
Jean Wood @jeanwood.bsky.social Ex UK language teacher now ITE tutor NPQLTD. Yorkshire born and bred but marooned in Lincolnshire. Remainer 🇪🇺. Interested in Education UK politics, cooking and eating. #FBPE Please don’t DM - it’s a block from me.
Fuming Soufflé 🇪🇺🇯🇵🐸 @fumingsouffle.bsky.social Usually fuming about one thing or another but occasionally deflates into a fluffy pancake.
英国ど田舎在住のはまっこです🐾
#Wülferhampton
Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social Game dev in Oslo. Formally of UK. Formerly of Snowcastle Games. Founder @ No Bad Weather
Jack Shepherd @lovefromjack.bsky.social Puzzle creator at Lil Snack. Formerly BuzzFeed. Big time cat guy. My newsletter about words and, like, grammar or whatever: https://onwords.substack.com/
Matt // metagloria @metagloria.bsky.social Amateur cryptic solver/setter/enthusiast
Baltimore, MD
Old puzzles at https://crosshare.org/metagloria
New and future puzzles at https://mycrossword.co.uk/metagloria
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
Pat O'Leary @patoleary.bsky.social Engineer. Curmudgeon. Lover of lousy puns. Fighting a weakness for redheads. Fair weather sailor and proud of it
George MacKerron @jawj.prof Associate Prof in Economics: environmental, spatial, behavioural, wellbeing (Mappiness project). Coder. Parent. Bass 1. http://mackerron.com
Graham @redgremlin.bsky.social Briton living in the French Alps. Microelectronic engineer, nature lover, canoeist, amateur photographer and teddy bear enthusiast
Family, personal and professional interests in France, UK and US
Hates what is happening in UK - not the country I left.
Janet Sparke @scintilla71.bsky.social Trying really hard to get better at setting cryptic crosswords.
Also a photography tutor, food lover and very slow runner
J S Docherty @jsdocherty.bsky.social Apparently Brilliant/Disturbing, bits sometimes on the Telly and Radio.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/james-docherty/
Crossers @crypticcrossers.bsky.social Crossers.co.uk is a new site aiming to make it easier to set and solve cryptic crossword puzzles. It's got the set of tools I wanted as a setter to make it quicker to create puzzles. Keen to get some feedback from setters and solvers alike!
@stemwinder @stemwinder.bsky.social Burrowing rodent fan, music lover, tune mangler. Thinks your playlist is derivative. #MDANT #UTV #vanguardista
Papillon Doré @papillondore20.bsky.social
LOVE MUSIC CHALLENGES & HASHTAG GAMES.
Paul Howard @paulhoward5.bsky.social Family stuff, music stuff, techie stuff, cryptic crosswords, Oxford commas, and total nonsense. Not always in that order. All posts are my own views. Grew up in the 1980s.
The Void ザ・ヴォイド @thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy 1st gaijin #kendama 6th Danけん玉六段
#Crossword setter(Mev/Ix/Prak)
#Podcast: #OffGridPod
Royalist@RoyalKendama;Author
Jokes quiz classics #cricket #juggling […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.vivaldi.net/@TheVoidTLMB, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Thomas Adam @thomasadam.bsky.social Only here for synchronicity. My main posts are over on Mastodon.
I mostly post crossword-related things here.
Oh, and developer of fvwm/fvwm3, tmux, got, x11cp
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
Fishupahill @fishupahill.bsky.social Formerly many things. Now missing, but not gone.
#pwME, #pwLC and #Lyme.
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.bsky.social 
Harry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social 
bram stroker @bsky.probablyfine.co.uk Average at software, bad at games, uiuaboo. Bi 🩷💜💙
Interested in:
✅ TDD
👥 Ensemble development
🔄 Continuous delivery
🖥️ Extreme programming
Not interested in: coriander, liquorice, cucumbers
Also @probablyfine@tech.lgbt
alex @dude.computer dude of computer. curious, both definitions.
atx -> stl
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social 
Karol S @karolszym.bsky.social Crossword nerd. Composer in real life. (Yes, we still exist.)
Composer of a thousand songs needing no introduction (5,1)
Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social Health #MECFS, sport, history & current affairs, puzzles, language, law & humour #Celtic 🍀 #LifeWriting at
merrydholl.wordpress.com 🏴
Simon Bazalgette @simonbazalgette.bsky.social A few of my obsessions: Family, Brentford, The Fall, Horseracing, Roundhouse and leaving the world a better place. How hard can it be?
Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social -2005: Leeds
2005-: Dublin
Films, music, crosswords, #CalendarMaths, swimming, #lufc, stuff - may contain puns.
Professional data wrangler. Amateur cat wrangler.
Not fitting every concern into CHAR(300).
Not an owl.
GeClef @geclef12.bsky.social Please don’t put me on a list. Lots of typos. 🇺🇸
/s =Sarcasm
Musician
My poetry is mostly on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/gigie91173. Learning cryptic cxwd
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. You are my Algonquin roundtable.
Matt Lewis @mattdlewis.bsky.social Mostly maths teaching here, some cooking, growing, art and odds & sods. PhD candidate at CEML Loughborough Uni. Asst Director at NCETM, interested in maths teachers doing research
Peter Williams @mathsimpact.bsky.social Secondary lead practitioner, teacher of maths and computer science, lover of puzzles, spreadsheet fanatic, proud geek.
#EduSky #UKTeaching
@Superleggera - who's awesome? That would be me 😊 @superleggera.bsky.social Pricing analyst, interested in music, films, fairness, and justice. Not interested in crypto or investments. At all. Don't follow me if that's your bag 🙄. Will only follow if we've had some interaction.
Living in Shropshire. aka Andy
Wildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk Amateur cryptic person, blinded by the lights.
Crosswords @ https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Wildvale
Ramblings @ https://www.wildvale.co.uk
Creator of https://cryptick.wildvale.co.uk
Leeroystarr @leeroystarr.bsky.social Facetious Prick.
only ever joking, calm down dear!
I'm only here to make up the numbers.
Dropped on my head as a child.
Before you block me can I at least say...Bye
*Witty retort a specialty
Benny Davis @bennymofodavis.bsky.social Will I get more followers if I put The Axis of Awesome in my bio
Evidently not
Dmitry Adamskiy @michpunk.bsky.social i live in sandwich.
cryptics, orienteering and allotment
Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social Physics teacher 🦄 Former electronic engineer and chef. Graduate of UMIST and NTU.
Milo @milo-xwords.bsky.social Has plenty of time, so filling it with quizzing, crosswords, and the like.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/Milo
David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com 
Alys Cummings @alyseliza.bsky.social Makes documentaries 🎥 loves crosswords 🖊️ reads novels 📚 writes ✍️ New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate ⬆️
Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic out
October 2026 Penguin Michael Joseph 🇬🇧🐧🇬🇧
February 2027 Minotaur 🇺🇸🐂🇺🇸
Lives North East 🌊🌅
Andrew @andrewt.net I am: Andrew https://www.andrewt.net • The Cell Tower guy https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/ • Polymath on MyCrossword https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Polymath
Simon Ferris @simonferris4234.bsky.social Climate issues, Maths. Crosswords. Here to get away from X.
Thurman8er @thurman8er.bsky.social Christ, comics, crosswords, Angels baseball, and general joy and hilarity.
Joel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social Professor of energy and administrative law, crossword setter, music and fútbol lover. LeoNessie on My Crossword (mycrossword.co.uk). Posts are not endorsements.
Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social Ex UK gov econ incl 2 years in Euro Parl econ & monetary cttee. Normandy. Semi-veggie. UTV
EN & FR (DE after beer). Views personal etc. Welsh. And French
Born at 325ppm
Greg Dobbins @thatgregdobbins.bsky.social Would-be children's writer, full-time idiot.
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Perry De Wynter @perrydewynter.bsky.social I'm here for cheese and crosswords.
Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social Science (former academic) | Teaching (>10years now) | Passionate about Cultural Capital (TGT author) | Springboard Science Author | SENDCo | Inclusion | Watford Bath City Arsenal | Politics | Rotund Running | Occasional Cats | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally
Noli Mentula Esse
Champie @champierth.bsky.social Gamedev & okayish bass player.
Follow for "Daft social media bollocks"
Assume any post is sarcastic and you won’t go far wrong.
A like doesn’t mean I agree, or understand.
May contain British spellings, and Oxford commas.
Pic:@beancurling.bsky.social
Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social Post other people's funny, gags from pro comedians, my own tat, and support the work of outstanding investigative journalists.
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
David JeremysIron @davidjsiron.bsky.social UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.
Folkyhel @folkyhel.bsky.social COVID-averse singer/dulcimerist. Self-recognised autistic. Professional tea-imbiber. Purveyor of smut/innuendo. Stand-up comedian. 😷
Show me your dog pictures!
(I did the tiger painting)
She/her.
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Laura @laurasy.bsky.social Runner (not a fast one, but I run so I’m a runner!), Guardian Crossword enthusiast (she/her)
🇬🇧 & fortunately also 🇮🇪 so happily still 🇪🇺
Jenny Skene @jennyskene.bsky.social South London.
Neither.
Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social If you’d be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal | Smarter than the average bear
🇬🇧Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social Freelance scientific and medical writer, editor, and writing coach for biotech, pharma, and academic life sciences: https://wordomics.com
Any sufficiently advanced editing is indistinguishable from magic
Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam territory
Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social Deputy Puzzles Editor at a UK newspaper, picture researcher / question writer for Only Connect.
I stream puzzles and games a few evenings a week at: twitch.tv/quizzydan
All views here are my own and not those of any of my employers.
@duncanjwitham.bsky.social @duncanjwitham.bsky.social 
Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social Silly artwork, puns, Maths. Possibly some stand-up/poetry/writing if I find the time. Occasional cryptic crossword setter. Had the evilflea handle for ages, trying out a stage/pen name.
Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social Crossword maker. XwordInfo stockholder. Parent of 2.
"Making puzzles is my passion" - Jigsaw from "Saw"
RIP Craig Etui and stuff 😴
NickStevens @yogdaws.bsky.social Writer. Until I Kill You. Pembrokeshire Murders. Recreations: Writing, not writing. No DMs please.
@runnyfiddler.bsky.social @runnyfiddler.bsky.social 
The Cryptic Mystic @thecrypticmystic.bsky.social I try to demystify cryptic crosswords on my YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/@The_Cryptic_Mystic
Cayce Pan @felinexwords.bsky.social Graduate student & cryptic crossword setter from Taiwan. Feline at mycrossword.co.uk