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)
Brian Reid @leicesterreject.bsky.social Editor, guitarist, East Midlands exile. Frequently changes might to may but rarely the other way around. OU student. Not a cat
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/
Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social Freedom of information expert & consultant. Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College politics dept. Author, 'Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook', http://amzn.to/3L2tuKi. ExBBC political journalist & radio producer. https://rosenbaum.org.uk/
Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social Obtained by Contexte. Managing editor for energy. Previously Euronews, CoinDesk, MLex and general policy wonk. Brussels-based. Tips? https://about.contexte.com/eu/secure-contact
Puzzle Patzer @puzzlepatzer.bsky.social Patzer: from German; patzen, 'to bungle' - usually used in chess for an inexperienced player.
Chess, sudoku, comics and other nonsense 😉
Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi PhD candidate @ UBuffalo • NSF GRFP
ChemE doing computational systems biology
Multi passionate bean with too many ideas
🫶 Lover of cats, code & crafts
Astrid Gall @astridgagall.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 Science communication & media relations @embo.org | 🎓 Senior Associate @lucycavcoll.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk | 🦠 PhD in Molecular Virology |📍Germany | https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrid-gall-ab4787138/ | Views my own
Caroline Stokes & John E Camm @johncamm.bsky.social Authors of sports biographies.
www.lulu.com
www.amazon.com
sportsauthors.wixsite.com/sports-authors
https://officialcarolineelwoodstokes.wordpress.com/
@sports-authors-ltd.bsky.social
Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Dr of Zoology
Data Scientist
Science feed co-creator
NYT bestselling author of #DoesItFart🐢💨
not without text @notwithouttext.bsky.social this is where i post random fun wordplay things that i make/realize. maybe occasionally promoting some other things i've made but idk
Jon Owen (Jono/Jay) @jwmowen.bsky.social Crosswords aka Jay, Jono
Iain MacGilleBhràith @aeonmach.bsky.social I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social That fire we made such a fuss about turned out to be a rainbow.
– Kenji Miyazawa
本職？ 人間だ 。
Will - the Magpie Linguist @magpielinguist.bsky.social Collector of shiny etymological facts and setter of cryptic crosswords.
Graduate doctor: that's an omen (6)
Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud Web aficionado, Cloud inhabitant, CSS devotee, Svelte superfan
Dylan Kirscher @rocketdog46.bsky.social Aspiring composer and meteorologist that's avid about all things word games and crosswords.
Trying to survive…
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.
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
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.
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
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.
Burrows @happyspacebunny.bsky.social Cryptic crossword addict and setter (MyC and Big Dave), writer and occasional software developer.
AKA happy little space bunny
@gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social @gumbootcrosswords.bsky.social 
Norfolk Moths (Jim Wheeler CMR) @norfolkmoths.bsky.social Moth News from norfolkmoths.co.uk - The Moths of Norfolk UK - Jim Wheeler (County Moth Recorder)
#norfolkmoths
Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
Dark Hi and Lois content now at @darkhiandlois.bsky.social.
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
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.bsky.social 
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
@duncanjwitham.bsky.social @duncanjwitham.bsky.social 
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
Parseword @parseword.com A daily cryptic crossword game - www.parseword.com
@lettercolor.bsky.social @lettercolor.bsky.social 
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.
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
Joyzzle @joyzzle.bsky.social Crosswords reimagined.
www.joyzzle.com/play
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!
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
Alan Trewartha @jauntyalan.bsky.social A tiny owl OvO
@sisyphus06.bsky.social @sisyphus06.bsky.social 
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
@stemwinder @stemwinder.bsky.social Burrowing rodent fan, music lover, tune mangler. Thinks your playlist is derivative. #MDANT #UTV #vanguardista
alex @dude.computer dude of computer. curious, both definitions.
atx -> stl
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Pat @maytce.bsky.social Retired doodler. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?
Harry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social 
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
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
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.
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social Member of the general public
@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)
Alex Cox @hipattack.bsky.social Writer, supposedly. Dad, more commonly. Streamer, once in a blue moon. 
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
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
ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social Retired Cornish-born Spanish>English translator in the Basque Country. Puns, posts about language, music & photos, mostly of birds. Se habla castellano.
Christopher Yudichak @theoddlinguist.bsky.social Hi there! Hope you’re doing well! So, what do I…
Do: Software developer.
Like: Games, puzzles, music, fun.
Think: Sure, why not?
he/him
Fedi: https://mastodon.social/@TheOddLinguist
Qathryn @cathryneap.bsky.social Librarian. Boardgamer. Runner. Occasionally quizzes, okay fine, more than occasionally. She/her.
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
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.
Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social Rare books, manuscripts, special collections. Also allotments, nature, etc. 
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
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.
Keith Williams @clubcrosswords.bsky.social Editor @ The Crossword Club - solver and setter of thematic barred cryptics
@astonvilla1.bsky.social @astonvilla1.bsky.social 
Cayce Pan @felinexwords.bsky.social Graduate student & cryptic crossword setter from Taiwan. Feline at mycrossword.co.uk
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
Emma Beasley @ejb117.bsky.social Bookworm, daydreamer, frustrated artist, and writer of blog posts.
Dmitry Adamskiy @michpunk.bsky.social i live in sandwich.
cryptics, orienteering and allotment
Milo @milo-xwords.bsky.social Has plenty of time, so filling it with quizzing, crosswords, and the like.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/Milo
Ange @angeandbella.bsky.social Gymnastics fan, cardiac nerd, dog person and avid reader.
Caroline Hardman @carolinehardman.bsky.social Still not a literary agent…
spacediscojeff @spacediscojeff.bsky.social Music fan. Stuck in the 70s. @spacediscojeff on instagram (where I post pics of record purchases and occasionally playlists)
Proprietor of the Short Cuts record label - https://shortcutsvinyl.bandcamp.com
John Information @katstevens.bsky.social Can still name more than six songs by 2 Unlimited
Bobby Looga @unheavy.bsky.social How should I possibly know what we should do?
Charles Flitcraft @offmessage.com How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
he/him. York, UK.
https://offmessage.com/
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
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 🌊🌅
Red Pete @redpete.bsky.social Freelance software engineer currently retired/between contracts. In a previous life, a chemist. Cryptic crossword addict
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
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.
Owen Newburn @owennewburn.bsky.social Gamedev @ Tributary Games. Technical Lead on King of the Castle and Occlude. Recently doing a lot of cryptic clues
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
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
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
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).- D @dazraf.bsky.social @dazraf.bsky.social
tpg @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
LilyPixel Design @lilypixeldesign.bsky.social Time to unlock the map. My world in pictures. Mixed media artist & creative tourist 👩🏻🎨 | UX designer 💻 | Neurospicy 🧠 | she/her | 🍜 feed me noodles | lab.lilypixel.com
Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist, cat haver, bicycle centaur
Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Spring Thing, Xyzzys
versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid still exists
nazis are bad
he/him
@gnomoncryptics.bsky.social @gnomoncryptics.bsky.social 
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.