Rebecca Bridge @rebeccabridge.bsky.social Writer, professor, poet, editor, cryptic crosswords, painter, screenwriter, metalsmith, mother, woodworker, and, you know, liver of life. Author of A Month's Worth of Instructional Poems & co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic. Pretty despondent.
Games World of Puzzles @gamesmagazine.bsky.social Official news and updates from Games World of Puzzles magazine.
Visit us at https://gamesworldofpuzzles.com
Orta Therox @orta.io Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling
Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net
These Puzzles Fund Abortion @tpfa.bsky.social We are the crossword puzzle pack that raises money for abortion funds.
Learn more and solve sample puzzles at www.abortionpuzzles.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
ipuppy @bjtetreault.bsky.social Crosswords, Orioles, Ravens, ships, comics, Baltimore, science, skepticism - not in any particular order. He/him/they
Bird site escape pod for @bjtetreault, @BaltimoreRooter, @DamnUWillShortz, @MaritimeSpatial - RIP
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
erik @e-a-rly.bsky.social anserine machine
Sarah Sinclair @sarbearsmiley.bsky.social loves books, puzzles, crosswords, & crafts 💕📚🧩🧶🪡🎨 she/her
Dani ✨🐚 @handle.invalid one day I will start using this website properly but until then you can find me at types.pl/@danielle 💕
GoComics @officialgocomics.bsky.social Home to the funniest comics, the most iconic characters, and the greatest creators of all time.
Ryan Patrick Smith @writerlyryan.bsky.social Writer, word nerd, film buff. Currently codeveloping a sci-fi board game called Derelict. He/him.
Board game deets: https://waxriver.com/
Crossword blog: http://realpuzzlingstuff.com
Singfisher Games (Daily Akari) @singfisher.com Game Dev based in Toronto, Canada 🍁
Maker of Daily Akari with @juliahenderson.bsky.social
🧩Playable at http://dailyakari.com !🧩
https://ko-fi.com/singfisher
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Beer and Crosswords @beerandxwords.bsky.social Beer nerd.
Tour guide. https://youtu.be/xFKOk_f7evI?feature=shared
They/them.
TRANS LIVES MATTER.
I don't post much, but when I do it's mediocre at best and rarely about beer or crosswords.
Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social Data scientist, economist by training. Tooling makes the world go round. Word nerd.
Build more housing
Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social Professional puzzle creator and editor. Into immersive theater, the Oscars, Eurovision, and Scrabble. Expect lots of pimping of my Sporcle quizzes.
Puzzmo @puzzmo.com puzzles that love you back
a zach gage and orta therox joint
www.puzzmo.com
Ryan Judge @rjjudge4.bsky.social he/him | making crosswords | 1x ORCA nominee
https://ryanjudgesxwords.blogspot.com/p/pubs.html
Joe Marangell @jmarangell.bsky.social Social studies instructional leader and graduate education faculty member focused on inquiry-based learning, literacy, and student engagement. EdD in Curriculum and Instruction. Crossword puzzle constructor!
jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es puzzles & games @newyorker.com
allium enjoyer, otamatone virtuoso
🐣 http://jasperdavidoff.com/
Ross Trudeau @rosstrudeau.bsky.social crosswords, word play, birds, soccer
a ross and down
Daryl Sng @darylsng.com Public sector strategy & energy/environment consulting at Accenture. Former Singapore diplomat & climate policy guy. Proud papa. Loves cities, wordplay, trivia, food, sport. Pronounced “suhng”
Reibello @reibello.bsky.social Spanish & French teacher, amateur crossword constructor & speedrunner, passable bassist, pretend programmer, escape room enthusiast.
Puzzles - https://crosshare.org/reibello
Charity - https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Timothy-Giannetti-2025
Dave Murchie @dmurchie.bsky.social 
SYM Antics @staceymccullough.bsky.social Once a design thinker, always a design thinker… but now more of a crossword constructor, woods walker, and crafts dabbler
Aaron M. Rosenberg 🇨🇦 @aaronmrosenberg.bsky.social Rebranding soon as the Bad Boy of Crosswords™ 😎... but this time, on Bluesky 😎
Ben Wilson @zerofiftyone.bsky.social Game Developer - Spooky Express, Saltsea Chronicles, Team Sonic Racing, EVADER, TV Trouble, Concentric, ████. Crossword constructor. Hobbyist potter. He/him.
zerofifty.one
vidhya @akatookey.bsky.social Trans, despite them. Organizer. Educator.
I stream sometimes: https://www.twitch.tv/akatookey
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/akatookey
@gnomoncryptics.bsky.social @gnomoncryptics.bsky.social 
treeleef @treeleef.bsky.social hihi hello hello! 🍃 sleepy chaotic blob streaming cosy puzzle games and cryptic crosswords at www.twitch.tv/treeleef_/ 💜
📧 treeleef.mail@gmail.com
a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social food, knitting, fandom (currently HR with residual kpop feelings)
Larry Snyder @larrysnyder.bsky.social ISE and Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs @LehighU. Teach Algs and Social Justice class. Research on applied OR. Author of Stockpyl Python package for inventory mgmt. Co-author of Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory. Crossword enthusiast and constructor.
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
Raider @mycrossword.co.uk Occasional cryptic crossword setter for The Independent and creator of MyCrossword http://mycrossword.co.uk
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
Flashling @flashling.bsky.social Cryptic crossword nut. Used to blow things up professionally.
CranberryFez @cranberryfez.bsky.social Cryptic crosswords - Cranberry barred thematics, Fez at mycrossword.co.uk/Fez
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".
Mitz @mitzcrosswords.bsky.social Crossword geek (Guardian crossword stats database), politics obsessive (but when the fun stops, stop), intolerant of intolerance. Appropriately butterfly mind - it flits about all over the place. The Archers is real life.
Lepus Xwords 𓃹 @lepusxwords.bsky.social Crossword setter – Lepus (personal), Wat (Herald)
Skinny @uncleskinny.bsky.social Chemistry and crossword nerd (Setting puzzles as Skinny in the Independent, Gumm in the FT). Loves music, chickpeas, Pixies best album is Surfer Rosa. Centrist liberal. Feminist. The green and the grey of the Pennines.
Charlie Methven @charliemethven.bsky.social I set cryptic crosswords as Methuselah and Chameleon and write questions for Only Connect • charliemethven.com • he/him
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
Mick Hodgkin @mickhodgkin.bsky.social Puzzles Editor, cryptic crossword setter, limerick writer, former TV news producer. Only Connect semi-finalist 2015-16. 
@ecclescrosswords.bsky.social @ecclescrosswords.bsky.social Crossword Compiler in Sneinton, Nottingham. Was an organic chemist. Maybe again some day. Still playing cricket and hockey.
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social Crossword-botherer, aka Amoeba, Weatherman, and Tango. Also anonymously in the Times and Telegraph.
KenB @kenbrough.bsky.social Exiled in Canterbury. Music. Stoke City. Crosswords. Correct grammar. I really don’t like Blur
The Void ザ・ヴォイド @thevoidtlmb.moth.social.ap.brid.gy 1st gaijin #kendama 6th Danけん玉六段
#Crossword setter(Mev/Prak)
#Podcast: #OffGridPod
Royalist@RoyalKendama;Author
Jokes quiz #cricket #juggling yo-yo […]
[bridged from https://moth.social/@TheVoidTLMB on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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 
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- P PostMarkCryptic.bsky.social @postmarkcryptic.bsky.social
- N Colin Inman @niloci.bsky.social
Smylers @smylers.uk Ilkley Christian geek board-gamer puzzle/quiz/crossword fan and parent
Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social Cruciverbalist, veggie, passionate European, enjoy words, language, cooking, wine, music: part-time genius & amateur human being (possibly vice versa)
Coot @coot.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter in the Independent, the Times, the Times Quick Cryptic (as Loon), Unch magazine and on MyCrossword
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%)
William Snow @willsnow8.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter - Bluebird (Independent), Solomon (FT) and Conto (elsewhere). Currently benefitting from limiting my social media use.
I’m Dave Williams. You’re probably not @skirwingle.bsky.social Walking under the career ladder. Crossword clues, limericks, bad jokes, ambigrams, logos, fonts, passable cartoons.
Derek Harrison @derekharrison.bsky.social Keen cyclist, lover of crosswords and manager of the Crossword Centre website
Hawk Crossword @hawkcrossword.bsky.social Composer of original puzzles. I’m probably best known for themed crosswords.
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.
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.
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.
Liari @liari.bsky.social Crossword setter - as Liari (The Independent, Unch); Apus (Times QC); Pavo (Guardian); Potoroo (Telegraph Toughie); Myself (Telegraph, Bonmo and elsewhere).
Unch magazine editorial team.
Super-duper Independent crossword setter? (5)
PeterMF @petermoorefuller.bsky.social Crosswords - Chopin (mycrossword), Bard (Independent), Playfair (Economist) & Glyph (Guardian)
Scicomm (infohackit)
Music (peteplays12)
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 
Sowmya Ramkumar @somsram.bsky.social Puzzle Editor @Amuselabs Cryptics for #minutecryptic, #the_hindu, #Hindustantimes, Minis on #theindiamini Author - #crypticcrossroads Vol. 1,2 & 3, CFA
Charterholder
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
John Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social Crosswords. Quiz. Ale. Classical Music. Cricket. Cornwall & Yorkshire.
Dan Dickens @brockwellgrecian.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter. Grecian in the Independent and Brockwell in the Guardian.- B John Lieb @boswords.bsky.social Math teacher, coach, crossword tournament organizer (check out Boswords at www.boswords.org)
Cath @catherinewheel.bsky.social Owned by whippets, care provider to canine neurodivergents, and lover of all living things Hopeful Twitch cryptic and kayak streamer :-) Banner picture is a photo I took myself at the end of the track at Auschwitz Birkenau - Never forget
Zelensky Stan 👊 🧊 @trentevans.bsky.social Big fan of the Constitution. Any day is a beautiful day to fight Nazis.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
-Mark Twain
(They don’t for now btw)
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
M & M Crosswords @mandmcrosswords.bsky.social I create Euro-flavored American-style crosswords. Find them on my blog at https://crosswordsmm.wordpress.com. New grids every Sun & Thurs, weather permitting.
Regular (exclusive) minis also at https://crosshare.org/martinawaluk.
Mastodon: @XW@toot.wales
Dan @danfeyer.bsky.social Mostly crosswords
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.
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Rachel Fabi Ph.D. @fabioethics.bsky.social associate professor of bioethics • immigration, public health ethics, crosswords • she/her • http://abortionpuzzles.com • views my own
B-Side @benmsmith.com Nerd-About-Town. Co-Host of The Eurowhat? Podcast. he/him.
goodatinter.net
@eurowhat.bsky.social
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Chris King @ckingsc.bsky.social I write questions (Palmetto Trivia & Only Connect) and puzzles (Chris Words).
Robyn Weintraub @robynw414.bsky.social Crossword puzzle constructor for @nytimes.com, @newyorker.com and @people.com; Mom; big fan of truth/science/democracy
austin @austinburns.bsky.social remember what the dormouse said
Evan Birnholz @evanbirnholz.bsky.social I write crosswords for The Washington Post. I also like cereal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzzles/sunday-evan-birnholz/
Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social Puzzles, ties, music, frivolity. Puzzlewright Press in the streets, AVCX in the singly-printed sheets. He/they.
anna @ort.bsky.social anna from crosswords
yes, i am fun at parties
Katie Hamill @haiticamel.bsky.social 
Erin, MD @dorktacular.bsky.social Hyphenated pediatrician crossworder. She/her/hers 🩷💜💙
Martha Kimes @marthakimes.bsky.social IP lawyer, crossword puzzler, writer, traveler. I love: autumn, Spain, Oxford commas, and Golden Retrievers. She/her.
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano @enriqueha.bsky.social Crossword constructor, etc.
Lena Webb @finitealright.bsky.social I hate cars; I love people
(she/they)
kim vu @dcwdkim.bsky.social but I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent and they're actually really, really nice
Midwest Crossword Tournament @midwestcrossword.bsky.social October 3, 2026 - Chicago, IL
https://midwestgridfest.com/
Jeff Schwartz @jeffurry312.bsky.social One-time Countdown (UK) contestant (28/10/97), one-time Jeopardy! contestant (1/1/07), president of the National Puzzlers' League (2019-24), he/him
Lowdown Cryptic @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social Canada’s rep for the World Crossword Federation and US & Canada Cryptic Championships. Cryptics for AVCX, Crossweird, The Browser, OoLF, Minute Cryptic. Scrabblegrams monthly. Letter banks repeatedly. He/him 🇨🇦 lowdowncryptic on Insta, Blogger, Crosshare
Mike Nothnagel @mikenothnagel.bsky.social League curler | Union officer | Crossworder | Probably the only person who owns more Ryan Lavarnway jerseys than me is Ryan Lavarnway | ik spreek een beetje Nederlands | he/him
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com Jeopardy! champ. Waiting for Survivor to call me back. Writer. YouTuber. Podcaster. Mpromptu@gmail.com. (Send me story tips!) http://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
Articles at https://friendlyatheist.com