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)
Cogs @cogsturn.bsky.social I set and talk about Cryptic Crosswords!
Solve the gentle puzzles: https://cogs-turn.com/
Solve the violent puzzles: https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/Cogs
Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CogsTurn
P.K. Munroe @pkmunroe.bsky.social Scribbler
Matt Monitto @matttheshirt.bsky.social Cryptic crosswordist (crypticmatt.blogspot.com + Tug @ mycrossword.co.uk), Twinkie Town writer, mystery lover. Last name rhymes w/Mosquito. He/him/his
Ben Yoskovitz @focusedchaos.co Founding Partner @ highlinebeta.com, venture studio + VC firm. We build and fund companies, often with corporate partners.
Author of Lean Analytics and FocusedChaos.co. Maker of Wordspine.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Greatest Games @playgreatestgames.bsky.social daily games for puzzle people, by puzzle people.
https://greatest.games
LV @saralvaidy.bsky.social
Common Ground @handle.invalid 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
Grievous Devious @furikake-pancake.bsky.social
Nobody 78960104 @nobody156.bsky.social
Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social Freelance journalist who covers tech, media, and power. Dirty optimist.
🖊️ Reporting at The Backbone: https://the-backbone.beehiiv.com/
✍️: Mothership, Rewire News Group, Assigned Media, The Objective, etc.
Signal: marsbars.81
erik @e-a-rly.bsky.social anserine machine
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
Games World of Puzzles @gamesmagazine.bsky.social Official news and updates from Games World of Puzzles magazine.
Visit us at https://gamesworldofpuzzles.com
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
George L. Jones @gljones1972.bsky.social I'm just a blue dot in a red state. Fighting for everything I believe in...
#BlueCrew🌊 #BLM✊🏾 #HerBodyHerChoice
🏳️🌈... LGBTQ+ Ally
🇺🇦... #SlavaUkraine
#DoNotObeyInAdvance
#MakeElitesAfraidAgain
#EatTheRich
#FuckICE #AbolishICE #ArrestICE
#NoKings
QueenKong👑💙🌊🦋 @queenkong24.bsky.social 🦋☮️🦋keep showing up Resisters.
-DEMOCRACY.
NO KINGS
@QueenKong24
#FBaRmy
#Texan
#resist #FBR
#DEMSCONNECT
🚫BOTS-🚫DMz
🦋☮️🦋
Clouve Inc. @www.clouve.com Clouve builds the bridge between great software and great business.
Perry De Wynter @perrydewynter.bsky.social I'm here for cheese and crosswords.
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
@pecabite.bsky.social @pecabite.bsky.social
Joyzzle @joyzzle.bsky.social Crosswords reimagined.
www.joyzzle.com/play
Researcher & Kindle Writer @diagarchbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHY17TQL
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
Harry Smith @harry-smith.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)
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
Matthew Kaner @mattkaner.bsky.social Composer. Teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Also into carpentry & cryptic crosswords
linktr.ee/matthew.kaner
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.
🍺 William Ryan @williamryanpubs.bsky.social
🍺 Sydney, Australia
Pubs | Hotels | Wine | Bridge | Mahjong | Backgammon | Crossword author & solver | Beer | Cricket | Rugby | Dewey Decimal System | Vexillology | Monopoly |
Tom @tclancy.bsky.social Try to remember, they’re locked in here with us. Bring back Connolly’s Citizen Army.
Ash2 I Voted Yes Australia Slava Ukraïni @ash202324.bsky.social Democratic Education. Literacy. Psychogénéalogie. Restorative Justice #NAFODinoDivision
Leonard Williams @polslaw.bsky.social Emeritus political scientist. Books: Hybridity and Ideology; Black Blocks, White Squares. Crossword puzzles & political commentary at https://crosspollination.substack.com/
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
Spelling Boo @spellingboo.bsky.social Unaccepted and unacceptable Spelling Bee submissions.
The Griddy @griddyxword.bsky.social sports, crosswords, things of that nature
The Griddy is a daily NFL mini crossword by devinmcintyre.bsky.social
Solve here 👉 https://crosshare.org/griddyxword
rebecca @ravenoak.dev
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
A!Kat ai @a-katai.com We make custom AI Assistants/Companions/Instructors/etc with heart! 🩷
https://a-katai.com
https://ko-fi.com/akatai/shop
Woman-owned ♀️ LGBTQ+-owned 🏳️🌈
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
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Claire Bennie @clairebennie.bsky.social Advisor on Housing Design and Development
wearemunicipal.co.uk
Also: art deco flats; choral music, cryptic crosswords (Ruskin)
Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social video game reviews @ slantmagazine.com
cryptic crossword solves @ twitch.com/thatcrypticguy
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
Warspanner 40,000 @0j.io NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Punktoady @punktoady.bsky.social Check out my YouTube! (link below)
https://linktr.ee/punktoadisdead
Shashwat @shashcrossie.bsky.social
Gridogram - Word Game @gridogram.com Let the grid speak to you... Each Gridogram hides a famous quote, trace words in the grid of letters to discover it. Play now ▶️ https://www.gridogram.com/
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 。
EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher.
Newsletter amplifies women leading the church around the world, throughout history. Master of Arts.
Living bonus days.
Celebrating organic intelligence.
elizabethglassturner.substack.com
Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly.
Oakland, CA
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 😴
PeterJCasey @peterjosephcasey.bsky.social Writer of cabaret and musical theatre, player of piano, lender of books. He/him.
@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
Richard James @richardjameschess.bsky.social Chess player, organiser, teacher, writer, historian. Investigating the intersection between chess and childhood.
Reading old newspapers so that you don't have to.
Also crosswords, music (classical & folk), genealogy etc.
https://richard915.substack.com
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
Victoria Parkinson @vlparkinson.bsky.social Sometimes a metadata and systems librarian in a London uni. Mostly playing board games, reading sci-fi and fantasy, and crafting--sewing, crochet, embroidery. Learning how to do cryptic crosswords and to knit.
Ronan O'Dowd @ronanodowd.bsky.social 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇸
#lrish #Italy #politics #languages #EVs ⚽🏉
It's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. |he/him|
The Rackenfracker @therackenfracker.bsky.social Variety puzzles and cryptic diversions. Winner of the inaugural ORCA crossword award for Best Variety Cryptic of the Year.
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
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 😉
@marionandroid.bsky.social @marionandroid.bsky.social
Paul @cumonpi1grim.bsky.social Teacher
#LeftIsBest
Tories out, whatever the colour
@ssavtaar.bsky.social @ssavtaar.bsky.social
John Flanagan @watfordjohn.bsky.social Grandpa, Carer, Watford fanatic, ex-teacher and gardener.
Silly Little Games @playsillylittlegames.com Silly Little Codes 🐡🫧
The original (free!) daily rebus puzzle game.
Interpret a puzzle to crack the code — a new Code is released daily at midnight.
Share your score and tag us!
playsillylittlegames.com/codes
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.
Chris Evans @mpcryptics.bsky.social Maths teacher by day, cryptic setter by night (Umpire/Potoroo)
Simon Ferris @simonferris4234.bsky.social Climate issues, Maths. Crosswords. Here to get away from X.
Brian Callahan @oliogrids.bsky.social crossword enjoyer - he/him - owner of the world's cutest dog - oliogrids.com
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
Henri @henriwords.com I have never disembowelled myself (5)
I start to drum, interrupting Ringo! (3)
I judge, like dad (5)
Crossword setter: Guardian, Times, Inquisitor, Gnomon, Unch, MyCrossword, henriwords.com and more. Puzzle editor at Unch. Rob Townsend, really
ALP @adamlp.bsky.social Withnail bore, Fowles nut & Lib>Xim
A smug cryptic setter in the Indy (5)
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)
Andrew @andrew338.bsky.social
Puzzmallow @puzzmallow.com Puzzmallow.com
🧩 Original and unique word, logic and number puzzles
#puzzles #wqers
Yule Lad @yulelad.bsky.social
Owen Newburn @owennewburn.bsky.social Gamedev @ Tributary Games. Technical Lead on King of the Castle and Occlude. Recently doing a lot of cryptic clues
Ardent @ardentdent.bsky.social Living on beautiful Wurundjeri Country. Family, friends, good food, music and laughter.
She/her
Ben @mr-b-w.bsky.social Teacher.
Longyfan @longyfan.bsky.social I make cryptic crosswords. Find them at mycrossword.co.uk/longyfan – 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
Ben D Robinson @bendrobinson.bsky.social (Mostly amateur) musician, mathematician, tutor, coder, crossword setter, sports enthusiast, lefty dreamer, living in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.
Tom Pardue @sleepytom.bsky.social Like: music (especially jazz & classical), reading (science, history, speculative fiction), crosswords, hiking and nature viewing.
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
Dr.Erkan Yildirim @thomeswi.bsky.social
@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social Crossword-botherer, aka Amoeba, Weatherman, and Tango. Also anonymously in the Times and Telegraph.
Sudeepa Nair @sudeepa.bsky.social Author - 📖The Serpents of Kanakapuram (2020) Around the World in 2153 (2021), 2154: The Cocoon (2022)| 📣Jomo Calls (2023)| 📣 Flood. Rinse. Drain. Repeat. (2024) |The Lakeview Mystery (2025)
https://sudeepanair.wordpress.com/