Josh Roach @iguesscryptics.bsky.social 24-year-old cryptic crossword setter appearing as Major (The Independent, Unch) and Iguess (MyCrossword)
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
Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social something nice with flowers or cats
Dan Dickens @brockwellgrecian.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Grecian in the Independent and Brockwell in the Guardian.
Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is out now. A Radio Four pick of the week.
Order details and live events - https://linktr.ee/4hundredblows
Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
https://alikichapple.net/
All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort
Derek Harrison @derekharrison.bsky.social Keen cyclist, lover of crosswords and manager of the Crossword Centre website
Jane Curthoys @woolbotherer.wsocial.eu I need more pies
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)
jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social they/them
i came to make theatre and weak puns and i'm all out of theatre
linktr.ee/fimjishwick
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
William Snow @willsnow8.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter - Bluebird (Independent), Solomon (FT) and Conto (elsewhere). Currently benefitting from limiting my social media use.
Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social A food and culture magazine.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social Sentences, both sensical and non-
Radio City, Empire State
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
Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social Artist. Osteoarchaeologist. Canadian. Doing creative things with heritage in the NW (UK). Multi-passionate person. Can expect knitting, gardening, ttrpg, nerdery. Aprendiendo español! she/her
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Tramp @tramp1.bsky.social Neil Walker
Cryptic crossword setter for The Guardian (Tramp). Have also set for Indy/i (Jambazi), FT (Skitnica), The Times, The Telegraph (Vagabundo), IQ and The Listener.
matt @therockisdead.bsky.social Some sort of unqualified historian (Ireland & Cuba). Do a podcast also @casementsleftovers.bsky.social The rest is nonsense.
https://therockisdead.substack.com/
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
CrypticBlah @crypticblah.bsky.social Rubbish German half back (4)
www.mycrossword.co.uk/Blah
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.
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
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
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
eBay mugs & glasses @dangmugs.bsky.social not my mugs (unless stated otherwise) ☕🦋
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)
Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social London, scicomm, pylons, aircraft, techy stuff (digital enthusiast), blogging, sound, bunting, QMUL, trees, big ships, science talks, film music, the designs of Iznik pottery and William De Morgan. Recently re-watched #Seinfeld :-)
Renomed @renomed.bsky.social Has the BBC repeated something old and potentially interesting? I'll try and let you know. @edjefferson.com made me.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Alex @skippingjack.bsky.social Hello you fool, I love you
Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social Fiend in feline shape. Mostly cryptics, sometimes other puzzles. Still not panthchesh. they/he hella gay 🏳️🌈
Angine de Poitrine @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social 🔼La page pas tout à fait officielle d'Angine de Poitrine 🔼
#AngineDePoitrine 🔼
Glassjarofmoles @glassjarofmoles.bsky.social We many moles proudly reside at
@GrantMuseum. A disparate lot, our interests lie in adventure, science, equality, educational disadvantage, history & worms.
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
sit down comedian @sitdowncomedian.bsky.social Making stuff happen
Elected as @greenparty Councillor for Greenwich Peninsula 💚🌳🐝🌊
Promoted by George Edgar on behalf of Green Party all at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social Neuroethologist, chemosensory scientist, herp lover. Immigrant and child of a refugee. Haver of snarky opinions. Mostly here to discuss Moby-Dick.
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
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.
Jerry's Map @jerrysmap.bsky.social Artist & Maker - this is the place to explore Jerry's Map, an imaginary world that is slowly evolving into an abstract composition generated by a combination of rules and random instructions.
Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social Gender blurrer, lover of Watership Down, Howards' Way, and Twin Peaks. Please don't tell me how I should do Bluesky
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Bainesic Channel @bain4z.bsky.social 
johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social “Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide"
Likes: Old movies, old music, old books
Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Monday
Kyle Nelson @kylenelson.bsky.social Twin Cities photo/design guy | clueless oaf | he/him
fotoapparatchik.com
Nicky Getgood @getgood.bsky.social Postgrad #arthistory & #creativewriting OU student. #Hyperlocal veteran. Scribbler. Lucky Orkney ferry-louper. Mum and Museum Custodian. Getgood on 🧵 📷 too 🏴🎨📚🏛🖌
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Hwæt! @hwaet.info Translations of the first word of Beowulf. Created by @jesse.lansner.com. See more at https://hwaet.info. 
Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit
James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk
The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social “A great contrast to the usual magazine.”
—Virginia Woolf
Join a conversation 200 years in the making.
https://yalereview.org/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Movies In Focus @moviesinfocus.bsky.social Movie news, reviews & interviews from Rotten Tomatoes approved critic & commentator Niall Browne. Home of the Movies In Focus podcast.
www.moviesinfocus.com
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Bilal Zafar @zafarcakes.bsky.social Linktree.com/zafarcakes
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
miniguinea @rowenajoe.bsky.social Maker of things and mother of furbabies. Living in Wellington, New Zealand.
Sewing 🪡 Knitting 🧶 Cats 😻 and other crafty shenanigans.
miniguinea on IG, Threadloop and Ravelry
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social European | Edinburgh-born | Historian of the Middle Ages | Northern Renaissance | Romanesque sculpture | Peasants’ Revolt | victory to Ukraine
Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project @derbyperegrines.bsky.social News about the Peregrine Falcons nesting on the ancient stone tower of Derby Cathedral since 2006.
Derby, England.
#derbyperegrines
https://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com
Janet Fairclough @whaupbirder.bsky.social Birder, ringer, conservation, horsemanship, islands, lighthouses
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
@grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social 
Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow
WIP: Old Nows
Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
Mr Thom @mrmoth.eurosky.social The world is getting worse and so are you.
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Hunterian Museum London @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social At the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Discover the art and science of surgery from ancient times to the present day.
https://hunterianmuseum.org/
Banner Image - Concourse (2) by Barbara Hepworth, 1948, Barbara Hepworth © Bowness
🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social Aka Ruth Blackett. Aka, far too many internet pseudonyms. Aka onions.
I want to see your unusual postboxes.
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
Editor, The Teesside Lead
🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com
Moby-Dick podcast:
🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social
Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
The Whale Pod @thewhale1851.bsky.social A podcast about a book about a man who really hates a fish.
https://patreon.com/thewhalepod
Glandular Lansbury @oblomovist.bsky.social Celebrity shaman
Francy 🦇🐍™️ @necrofrancer.bsky.social Lovable Rat Girl
Live from the Golden Throne
(All views expressed are my own and have not been approved by the Administratum)
Birdfeed @birdfeed1.bsky.social Potato, wine, and book lover. Trying to tread softly.
Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating. Looking for small amounts of paid work.
Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social Battlefield Guide - London at War
Cricket
Football (Charlton & Dulwich Hamlet)
Heritage Stuff
Movies
📍London, England
David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social Graphic designer / DJ of The Tone Shift radio show on http://loose.fm
http://mastodon.social/@DNAtkinson
http://instagram.com/thetoneshift
http://mixcloud.com/TheToneShift
Sarah 💫 @harrietvane.bsky.social Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
wheatles @wheatles.bsky.social Woman of the people
Andrea Clayton Vail @andrea-v.com A #London resident from Eastern #Canada. #History enthusiast, long time #MacAdmin, collector of old #VideoGames, appreciative of #synths, #basketball fan, #trains. She/They
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social Author (Mary's the Name, Sonny and Me, Daisy on the Outer Line, The Everliving Memory of John Valentine) & co-host of I've Got An Idea For A Podcast
he/him
📍Glasgow, Scotland
Matt @wyrd.systems 📖 Publishing Unch, a cryptic crossword magazine: unchcrosswords.com
📺 Streaming on Sundays: https://twitch.tv/CrypticSunday
🪑 Sitting on benches
☕️ Drinking coffee
🌍 Lewes, UK
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 
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.
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.
Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social I write recaps and reviews about British reality TV over at https://ariadnereviews.com/
Meldrew Point @meldrewpoint.bsky.social To reach Meldrew Point, you must be 19,537 days old: the same age as Richard Wilson when episode 1 of One Foot In The Grave was aired.
Suzanne Recommends Things @suzannerecommends.bsky.social She/her. Dutch lover of all things cosy, like watching DVD's, reading, cooking, listening to music, crochet and thrifting ✨
I share my favorite things here and on my blog: https://suzannerecommendsthings.blogspot.com