@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social 
Hugh Hudson @beeryhikerhugh.bsky.social Retired from IT (rail business). Interests: walking (especially #SlowWays), crosswords (cryptic), books (especially literary fiction), politics, science, music of all kinds and cricket. BlueSky veteran (i.e. here just over a year, enough to be first 10%)- P PostMarkCryptic.bsky.social @postmarkcryptic.bsky.social
Catnip @catnipxword.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Nepeta in the Independent or https://mycrossword.co.uk/Catnip. Lover of wordplay, silliness, awful puns, quizzes, etc. Part-time proofreader. Booklover. Bellringer. Accidental runner. I also have a day job.
AVCX Classic @avcx.bsky.social The best indie crosswords since 2008. Avxwords.com. Owned by no one but us; supported by no one but our solvers. Fair pay for creators always.
Skirwingle β @skirwingle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Dabbler, dilettante, fartaround if you like. Crossword clues, limericks, bad jokes, opinions on film music, ambigrams, logos, fonts, passable cartoons.
π bridged from β https://mastodon.social/@skirwingle, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Will - the Magpie Linguist @magpielinguist.bsky.social Collector of shiny etymological facts and setter of cryptic crosswords.
Graduate doctor: that's an omen (6)
Coot @coot.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter in the Independent, the Times, the Times Quick Cryptic (as Loon), Unch magazine and on MyCrossword
Guinevere π²π² @guineverecryptic.bsky.social Love cryptic crosswords, long time solver, now honoured to be a setter! ADHD and Mensa member - owning the wonderful US βtwice exceptionalβ label π₯° π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ²π²
Dice: Guardian
Kybos: Times QC
Anonymous: Times
Guinevere: Most other places!
Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social video game reviews @ slantmagazine.com
cryptic crossword solves @ twitch.com/thatcrypticguy
juff @juffowup.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords mostly at gnomoncryptics.com
And stream them at
twitch.tv/juffo__wup
(Not the ones I make. I stream other ones.)
PeterMF @petermoorefuller.bsky.social Crosswords - Chopin (mycrossword), Bard (Independent), Playfair (Economist) & Glyph (Guardian)
Scicomm (infohackit)
Music (peteplays12)
Longyfan @longyfan.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords. Find them at mycrossword.co.uk/longyfan β also on various occasions in The Independent (Longitude), Minute Cryptic (half of Crenditi), The Gnomon, The Browser, Parseword, Cryptic Crossweird, MyCrossword featured, and Unch
He/him
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
Charlie Methven @charliemethven.bsky.social I set cryptic crosswords as Methuselah and Chameleon and write questions for Only Connect β’ charliemethven.com β’ he/him
CrypticBlah @crypticblah.bsky.social Rubbish German half back (4)
www.mycrossword.co.uk/Blah
Twm @twm-barlwm.bsky.social Michael Lloyd-Jones
Twit lacking appeal, male crossword setter (3)
The Telegraph (anon and Light)
The Independent (Deri)
The Times (anon)
Widdersbel @widdersbel.bsky.social Mostly baking and crosswords
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)
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!
Flashling @flashling.bsky.social Cryptic crossword nut. Used to blow things up professionally.
Canadian Curmudgeon π @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social π Woke writer, editor, reviewer, consultant, municipal politician.
βοΈ Shakespeare, Horace, Machiavelli, Chaucer, Cicero, Homer, Godzilla, ERB, ukuleles, democratic socialism, atheism, pets, science, bread, tequila.π«crypto!π« MAGA!
www.ianchadwick.com/blog
Phonetics & Phonology Group @ Newcastle University @phonncl.bsky.social Phonetics & Phonology Research Group at Newcastle University. Researchers uniting around language and sound. For enquiries, please contact us at phoneticsphonology.ncl@gmail.com. Our website: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phonphon/
Liari @liari.bsky.social Crossword setter - as Liari (The Independent, Unch); Apus (Times QC); Potoroo (Telegraph Toughie); Pavo (Guardian); Myself (Telegraph, Bonmo and elsewhere).
Unch magazine editorial team.
Super-duper Independent crossword setter? (5)
Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social The toast in the machine. NHS librarian, crossword compiler (Angel), Unch magazine editorial team, poet. Weekly crossword streams on Twitch @ crypticsunday. I like crime fiction, telly and cold water. She/her.
Henri @henriwords.com I have never disembowelled myself (5)
I start to drum, interrupting Ringo! (3)
I judge, like dad (5)
Crossword setter: Guardian, Inquisitor, Times, Gnomon, henriwords.com and more. Puzzle editor at Unch. Rob Townsend, really
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Josh Roach @iguesscryptics.bsky.social 24-year-old cryptic crossword setter appearing as Major (The Independent, Unch) and Iguess (MyCrossword)
andy @yacomink.com I make websites at Etsy. Formerly BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post. (he/him)
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social eh?
hot doorknobs @hotdoorknobs.bsky.social music, arsenal, art, goofs
πRex Parkerπββ¬ βοΈ π§ @rexparker.bsky.social Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
Erin Chack @erinchack.bsky.social Cowabunga
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social managing editor @garbageday.email, prev at tumblr and buzzfeed. we both just lost The Game. π± (she/her)
Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
grace spelman @gracespelman.bsky.social 
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social Journalist, librarian, dog spoiler, goat wrangler. Subscribe to my free newsletter about substance use & addiction recovery. askasoberlady.substack.com.
Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social Staff Writer, Slate. It's all gonna work out this time.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Tim Unkenholz @timunken.bsky.social Formerly Buzzfeed, now playing Red Redemption again.
Need a copywriter? Hire me! https://sites.google.com/view/tim-unkenholz/home
Jean-Luc Bouchard @jeanlucbouchard.bsky.social Creative Nonfiction Editor for Shenandoah. Features contributor at The Onion. Writing in: The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Vox, The Paris Review's The Daily
https://jeanlucbouchard.com
Becca Worby @beccaworby.bsky.social I'm here, I guess! Writer, sometimes. Editorial director of Reasons to be Cheerful, an online magazine founded by David Byrne. She/her.
rebeccaworby.com
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
π§π» www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
@bestyrich.bsky.social @bestyrich.bsky.social 
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Mathew New @mathewnew.bsky.social Comics and drawings and stuff
Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk Guardian crossword setter & teacher of aspiring word-fiends. Two books of puzzles & the stories behind them: see website for signed copies or to sign up for masterclasses or to commission bespoke puzzles: boatmancryptics.co.uk
@benkaufman.bsky.social @benkaufman.bsky.social 
Jeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson.bsky.social deputy director @pitchfork
jeremydlarson.com
Annemarie Dooling @travelinganna.bsky.social Independent journalist. Bylines WSJ, Vox, NYT, USA TODAY, Etc. Studying information & happiness at Penn.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s β out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Go Crossword @gocrossword.co.uk Free crossword-setting app at https://www.gocrossword.co.uk
UnclearPod @unclearpod.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Unclear and Present Danger podcast, hosted by Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz.
Rachel Poser @rachelposer.bsky.social Story Editor at NYTMag
Raider @mycrossword.co.uk Occasional cryptic crossword setter for The Independent and creator of MyCrossword http://mycrossword.co.uk
ada's puzzles @luckyxwords.com updates on ada nicolle's crossword puzzles (luckystreak, crossword club, usa today, atlantic, etc.)- J JoshSolves @joshsolves.bsky.social I make puzzles at JoshSolves.com, I stream puzzles at twitch.tv/JoshSolves, I like puzzles.
@sirdakka.bsky.social @sirdakka.bsky.social 
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her π
Montreal en/fr π¨π¦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
π https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
𦣠@stancarey@mastodon.ie
Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social Fiend in feline shape. Mostly cryptics, sometimes other puzzles. Still not panthchesh. they/he hella gay π³οΈβπ
Elijah Cone @elijahcone.bsky.social content guy @ pod save america and crooked media
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social Crossword-botherer, aka Amoeba, Weatherman, and Tango. Also anonymously in the Times and Telegraph.
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Joe Pasini @joeadultman.bsky.social tabletop game designer, cryptic crossword constructor, and union steward
Crosswords: joeadultman.blogspot.com
Streams: twitch.tv/joeadultman
Alan Connor @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 
Gerrard π²πΆπ€π± @brknfixie.bsky.social Crossword streamer, doggy daddy
Also making wordy puzzle game Spelly Cat
In early access on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445350/Spelly_Cat/
twitch.tv/brknfixie
Chris Evans @mpcryptics.bsky.social Maths teacher by day, cryptic setter by night (Umpire/Potoroo)
@ecclescrosswords.bsky.social @ecclescrosswords.bsky.social Crossword Compiler in Sneinton, Nottingham. Was an organic chemist. Maybe again some day. Still playing cricket and hockey.
Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword compiler for The Indy & The Blizzard (as Knut), The FT (Julius), The Daily Telegraph (Toughies as Hudson), The Times (QC as Bjorn), The Observer (Calypso) and The Guardian (Hat)
Location: Freiburg, Black Forest
Iβm Dave Williams. Youβre probably not @skirwingle.bsky.social Walking under the career ladder. Crossword clues, limericks, bad jokes, ambigrams, logos, fonts, passable cartoons.
Will Neville @willneville.bsky.social Here to talk Beatles, music in general and Liverpool FC. Maybe some politics too if everyone plays nice here!
rebecca onion @rebeccaonion.bsky.social senior staff writer at slate - www.rebeccaonion.com
i don't really post here - more active at:
https://www.instagram.com/rebeccaonion
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13150472-rebecca-onion
and
https://letterboxd.com/rebeccaonion/
Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social Writer, game designer
Former Staff Writer @TheOnion & @ClickHole.
Words for Netflix, Jackbox Games, High On Life, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, Saints Row, Darkhorse, other places
alexanderblechman.com
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer β§ Co-Editor of History Today β LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) β§ Posting in a personal capacity β‘
Eugene Ventimiglia @eventi.bsky.social Used up and spit out by dotcom startups, now I sell froyo
Mike Wozniak @mikewozniak.bsky.social Showbusinessman. One bean of @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social. The Malcolm Durridge behind the St Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast. Devoted assistant to the Junior Taskmaster.
www.mrmikewozniak.com
@mrnishkumar.bsky.social @mrnishkumar.bsky.social 
Sitter Crosswords @sitterxwords.bsky.social Cryptic clues posted most evenings, usually an anagram (cold-solve friendly) and often topical.
My (other) main hobby is wandering middle-class neighbourhoods on summer afternoons and shouting, "Alexa, set an alarm for 3am".
@merriamwebster6.bsky.social @merriamwebster6.bsky.social 
Ben Zimmer @benzimmer.bsky.social Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut.
https://linktr.ee/benzimmer
Travis aka βheavyvenomcannonsβ @travispaints.bsky.social Hello friends! Finally on here just in case twitter goes down π
Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social Editor of McSweeneyβs Internet Tendency. Author of The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life. Dominator of waiting rooms. Fragile fan of the Dolphins, Sixers, and Red Sox.
Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social The world's largest online linguistic resource (https://linguistlist.org).
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Laurie Perez Novelist @laurienovelist.bsky.social Indie author β’ desert dweller β’ chronic uplifter β "Let's be stars to each other" π Speculative Fiction β’ Visionary β’ Adult Contemporary & YA | https://lauriepereznovelist.com
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Dan Dickens @brockwellgrecian.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Grecian in the Independent and Brockwell in the Guardian.
@tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social 
lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social 31 β’ plays well with others β’
Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social Author of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE (2023), AT HOME IN THE STARS (2029) | series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING || she/her || jaimegreen.net