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@nadiawithaboringj.bsky.social @nadiawithaboringj.bsky.social So come out ye Labour fans won't you fight me like a Trans...
Anna S @amphianna.bsky.social #cyclist, #bisexual, #Quaker, #birdwatcher, #ex-scientist, #London, #musictheory, #multilingual, #LanguageLearning, #ChoralSinging, #nature, wildlife, #AuDHD
HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social 🇳🇿🇬🇧 by birth, by residence
🖖by choice
❤️ Rugby, people, choice and democracy
🚫 Muters, Haters, baiters and takers
🇪🇺 Let’s rejoin and be happy
🇺🇦 Fighting for all of us Slava Ukraini!
🌴 @jewelthin.bsky.social
Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social Check out the amazing handcrafed gifts made by my daughter at www.idlehandmade.com
You know you want a Holy Grail bag, or that guitar bag, owned only by me and Micky Dolenz. Updates coming shortly...
Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social A daily international word puzzle. Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. One a day, free, no US-only categories, no cultural homework. → commonground.games
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
MickinPoitiers @mickinpoitiers.bsky.social Reading, writing, walking, taking photos. It could be a lot worse.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Mary Unfaithful✔️ @themaryunfaithful.bsky.social In with the out crowd.
Cloud Cöökööland.
https://www.instagram.com/themaryunfaithful?utm_source=qr
Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social Ex UK gov econ incl 2 years in Euro Parl econ & monetary cttee. Normandy. Umpire. Semi-veggie. UTV
EN & FR (DE after beer). Views personal etc. Glamorgan CCC fan. Welsh. And French
Born at 325ppm
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.bsky.social
Cayce Pan @felinexwords.bsky.social Graduate student & cryptic crossword setter from Taiwan. Feline at mycrossword.co.uk
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
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.
@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Peter Williams @mathsimpact.bsky.social Secondary lead practitioner, teacher of maths and computer science, lover of puzzles, spreadsheet fanatic, proud geek.
#EduSky #UKTeaching
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
@zinzan-xwd.bsky.social @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social
@gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social @gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social
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!
Scurra @scurra.com Cruciverbalist with a side-order of boardgame design. He/Him.
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.
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
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.
@pecabite.bsky.social @pecabite.bsky.social
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
Harry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick 🏳🌈 {they,he}
Interests: Functional programming; theoretical computer science; Indie games; Gamedev; TTRPGs; Doctor Who (I made whodle! 📺)
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social President & Chief Correspondent, Feature Story News (www.featurestory.com)
All links: http://linktr.ee/SimonMarksFSN
Podcast: 📻: plinkhq.com/i/1111788303
American Week on LBC: https://shorturl.at/Iw9Nn
The iPaper: https://inews.co.uk/author/simon-marks
Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend. Making the world a better place one silly song at a time.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
Farron Cousins @farronbalanced.bsky.social Host of Farron Balanced.
https://linktr.ee/FarronBalanced
David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social http://davidpakman.komi.io/
Clues at Ten @cluesatten.bsky.social Topical cryptic crossword clues. It'd be great if this is how someone found out a celebrity has died.
Captain Arlo @captainarlonj.bsky.social Curmudgeon with hobbies: witty banter, UK canals, Britcoms, Sci‑Fi, tech overlord, history wizard—and any meal I don’t have to cook.
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)
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Claire Bennie @clairebennie.bsky.social Advisor on Housing Design and Development
wearemunicipal.co.uk
Also: art deco flats; choral music, cryptic crosswords (Ruskin)
Ben Cadwallader @caddymation.bsky.social 3D Animator & someone who really should be doing more drawing & probably reading too. Used to be over there, now planning to be over here instead. I like a few different sports too, so look out for stuff about that as well
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
tpgrammar @tpgrammar.bsky.social A billion things could be wrong, and aren’t. 👍
I set cryptic crosswords at MyCrossword.co.uk
*support the site here: https://ko-fi.com/mycrossword
Milo @milo-xwords.bsky.social Has plenty of time, so filling it with quizzing, crosswords, and the like.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/Milo
momes @momes.bsky.social i think i'm mostly here for crossword stuff
www.twitch.tv/crossweirdtv
www.patreon.com/crypticcrossweird
Roderick Easdale @roderickeasdale.bsky.social Author, sports journalist, crossword compiler, golfer, supporter of #LUFC and #YCCC.
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Andy Knott @knottfamily.co.uk Crosswords & quizzes, The Guardian, bridge, curry
Football & cricket with Liverpool, Surrey
Fuller's, Barolo, the EU, & Yeats
Sourdough, golf, London, Toms Lehrer & Waits
Half Man Half Biscuit, the way Dylan sings
These are a few of my favourite things
Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk Bristol based
🧑💻programming https://github.com/fred-cook
📽️cinema https://letterboxd.com/fuverdred/
✒️cryptic crosswords
🚴♀️cycling
🧗♀️climbing
📖reading
🍻pubbing https://bristol.pub/invite/ps1eav8silxuv9r7i773ui2v
🎯darts https://fredcook.co.uk/map
Dmitry Adamskiy @michpunk.bsky.social i live in sandwich.
cryptics, orienteering and allotment
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
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
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
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
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 🇪🇺
Ouroboros @ouroborosop.bsky.social Setter of cryptic crosswords, including Independent No 12,103. I also drum for black metal band Oppress. and punk band Butt Plug Babies.
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 😴
@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
@ferryboatinn.bsky.social @ferryboatinn.bsky.social
Paul Nightingale 🏳️🌈 @preshrunkpaul.bsky.social Suffolk UK. Model 🚂.
Trying to build a kinder greener world
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does.
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.
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social Poet, wordplayer, musician, editor, bassist, guitarist, backgrounds in physics & publishing
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
AnthonyEtherin.com
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
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 🌊🌅
Dr Tom Hewitt @ethnotweeter.bsky.social #PhD in the #philosophy of music. Painter (nom de brosse: Tom Tomos). Still trying hard to learn Cymraeg.
K. P. Hart @hartkp.eurosky.social Eg e' matematiker/I'm a mathematician
Also: mathsplainer
And: https://mathstodon.xyz/@hartkp
Ian Gilhespy @dizzybanana.bsky.social
Thomas Adam @thomasadam.bsky.social Only here for synchronicity. My main posts are over on Mastodon.
Oh, and developer of fvwm/fvwm3, tmux, got, x11cp- K Ken MacKenzie @kenmac.bsky.social
@kokopellikate.bsky.social @kokopellikate.bsky.social
Nicholas Embling @nicholasembling.bsky.social London based, music, food, wine and art enthusiast. Old leftie.
Stuart Drysdale @darlobun.bsky.social Middle aged British guy, from Darlington but live in London. Golf, most other sports, travel, crosswords but hopefully not cross words
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/
Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social 🏴 🇦🇺 🎸 🚴 Indie thing from Wales. Part cangarŵ. Siaradwr newydd. Possibly more engaged with cryptic crosswords than with rock’n’roll.
Sound & vision: https://youtube.com/@ffrediblino
Simon Ferris @simonferris4234.bsky.social Climate issues, Maths. Crosswords. Here to get away from X.
Steven Clark @stevenawclark.bsky.social
RobertClubb @robertclubb.bsky.social
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Bill Gates @billgates.bsky.social Global Health. Energy Innovation. Alzheimer’s. https://gatesnot.es/tgn
Microsoft @microsoft.com AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps ☀️
@silentknightsk.bsky.social @silentknightsk.bsky.social Fan of all things cryptic
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social Cryptic crossword lover, bridge player and quiz nut. Run the wonderful Wednesday night QVQL (with a little help!) - a free individual quiz.