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!
Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CogsTurn
Solve the puzzles: https://cogs-turn.com/
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.
Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com Ultraviolet & Infrared Nature Photography
Portfolio, prints, and free IR Guide at https://rainhayes.com.
KelbyOne instructor
No AI
@juicyluce9.bsky.social @juicyluce9.bsky.social 
Chris Evans @mpcryptics.bsky.social Maths teacher by day, cryptic setter by night (Umpire/Potoroo)
The Rackenfracker @therackenfracker.bsky.social Variety puzzles and cryptic diversions. Winner of the inaugural ORCA crossword award for Best Variety Cryptic of the Year.
kayebrown ✨ @kayebrown.bsky.social streaming crosswords and games!
twitch.tv/kayebrown
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.
Perry De Wynter @perrydewynter.bsky.social I'm here for cheese and crosswords.
U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @usmnt.ussoccer.com ⚽️🇺🇸
Adam Cottrell @cottrela.bsky.social Coffee cryptics daily ☕️
Founder of CoffeeCryptics.com
Indie maker behind searchmonkey.dev & coffeetap.app
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 
Simon Finlay @simonfinlay.bsky.social Northern Irish; Kent politics journalist; Brentford FC, Glentoran FC & Maidstone United. Fly-fisher who likes clean rivers. Views my own, not that of anyone would want them.
“Any friend that’s been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine” - John Prine
Ben Dawes @bendawes.bsky.social Game dev in Oslo. Formally of UK. Formerly of Snowcastle Games. Founder @ No Bad Weather
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
Parseword @parseword.com A daily cryptic crossword game - www.parseword.com
@cricket82.bsky.social @cricket82.bsky.social Word enthusiast, (very) amateur crossword setter (as Cricket) at mycrossword.co.uk
Widdersbel @widdersbel.bsky.social Mostly baking and crosswords
Dan Davison @danjdavison.bsky.social Teacher. Books, poetry, theatre & I’m learning to set cryptic crosswords
Jack H Keynes @wearingcrocs.bsky.social conthinging, crosswording. https://jackhkeynes.co.uk
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
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!
someguyinthefridge @someguyinthefridge.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.
@crackingthecryptic.bsky.social @crackingthecryptic.bsky.social 
DepressedBergman @dannydrinkswine.bsky.social Fan of Chelsea, Blackcaps & a Movie aficionado.
@sirdakka.bsky.social @sirdakka.bsky.social 
Abdul K. @abdvl.bsky.social Amateur cryptic crossword setter. Find my work at https://crypticsbyabdul.com/
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)
@sisyphus06.bsky.social @sisyphus06.bsky.social 
Jamie Ding @feathersmcg.bsky.social he/him | Erstwhile streamer of cryptic crosswords and Kingdom Hearts at https://twitch.tv/FeathersMcG
Josh Wardle @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk I created Place and The Button @reddit. And more recently Wordle.
www.powerlanguage.co.uk
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Pat Cousins @patcousins.bsky.social Crossword solver on YouTube, lazy writer.
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social crimeonfilm.com
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
@rkempley.bsky.social @rkempley.bsky.social 
Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social writer. Cheers. You're Killing Me, Chesapeake Shores, From Away, Boston Legal. Thanks. Terriers. The CRUSH books. Darrow & Darrow. other things. NY Times bestselling author.
Lives in South Pasadena CA
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.
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
Lepus Xwords 𓃹 @lepusxwords.bsky.social Crossword setter – Lepus (personal), Wat (Herald)
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
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social Here for art, books, film, music, comedy, food, football, cricket, history, old newspapers, birds, mountains and more.
Joe Pasini @joeadultman.bsky.social tabletop game designer, cryptic crossword constructor, and union steward
Crosswords: joeadultman.blogspot.com
Streams: twitch.tv/joeadultman
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
Mad Dog Cryptics @maddogcryptics.bsky.social Very independent cryptic crossword setter. To the god of death: Not Today! Traveller, participant, LGBTQIA2S+ ally. #BLM Resist!
Flashling @flashling.bsky.social Cryptic crossword nut. Used to blow things up professionally.
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%)
Cayce Pan @felinexwords.bsky.social Graduate student & cryptic crossword setter from Taiwan. Feline at mycrossword.co.uk
Film Noir @filmnoir.bsky.social Taking you to a deep, dark place…in 35mm black & white and color film. #FilmNoir #FilmNoirClub #NeoNoir #Noir #Fim #Movies #Cinema #Moviesky #Filmsky
@kohaxw.bsky.social @kohaxw.bsky.social 
@duncanjwitham.bsky.social @duncanjwitham.bsky.social 
Q-Less Game @qlessgame.bsky.social The Crossword Solitaire Game
www.qlessgame.com
Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social Deputy Puzzles Editor at a UK newspaper, picture researcher / question writer for Only Connect.
I stream puzzles and games a few evenings a week at: twitch.tv/quizzydan
All views here are my own and not those of any of my employers.
John Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social Crosswords. Quiz. Ale. Classical Music. Cricket. Cornwall & Yorkshire.
Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social Freelance writer, full-time reader, commission-me-anytime reviewer. (For many, most of the places you'd imagine, plus some you might not. That's the joy of freelancing...) susiemesure.com
Josh Roach @iguesscryptics.bsky.social 24-year-old cryptic crossword setter appearing as Major (The Independent, Unch) and Iguess (MyCrossword)
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.
Claire Bennie @clairebennie.bsky.social Advisor on Housing Design and Development
wearemunicipal.co.uk
Also: art deco flats; choral music, cryptic crosswords (Ruskin)
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
Mick Hodgkin @mickhodgkin.bsky.social Puzzles Editor, cryptic crossword setter, limerick writer, former TV news producer. Only Connect semi-finalist 2015-16. 
ALP @adamlp.bsky.social Withnail bore, Fowles nut & Lib>Xim
A smug cryptic setter in the Indy (5)
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
Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com YouTube word nerd. Host of RobWords and Words Unravelled.
Crosstalk @thecrosstalkpod.bsky.social A crossword construction podcast hosted by Daniel Grinberg
Dmitry Adamskiy @michpunk.bsky.social i live in sandwich.
cryptics, orienteering and allotment
PeterMF @petermoorefuller.bsky.social Crosswords - Chopin (mycrossword), Bard (Independent), Playfair (Economist) & Glyph (Guardian)
Scicomm (infohackit)
Music (peteplays12)
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 🌊🌅
Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social Fiend in feline shape. Mostly cryptics, sometimes other puzzles. Still not panthchesh. they/he hella gay 🏳️🌈
Dan @danfeyer.bsky.social Mostly crosswords
Milo @milo-xwords.bsky.social Has plenty of time, so filling it with quizzing, crosswords, and the like.
https://mycrossword.co.uk/Milo
Eddie Muller @eddiemuller.bsky.social Writer. Film Historian. Bartender.
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
Ben D Robinson @bendrobinson.bsky.social (Mostly amateur) musician, mathematician, tutor, coder, crossword setter, sports enthusiast, lefty dreamer, living in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.
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.)
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
Smylers @smylers.uk Ilkley Christian geek board-gamer puzzle/quiz/crossword fan and parent
Perry Byrne @evilflea.bsky.social Silly artwork, puns, Maths. Possibly some stand-up/poetry/writing if I find the time. Occasional cryptic crossword setter. Had the evilflea handle for ages, trying out a stage/pen name.
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
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
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.
Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social video game reviews @ slantmagazine.com
cryptic crossword solves @ twitch.com/thatcrypticguy
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.
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
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)
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 😉
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.
Steve Mossberg @mossdef.bsky.social Music teacher/crossword maker: WSJ, Times, Independent (Mog), and elsewhere. Cryptics editor at AVCX. he/him
patreon.com/squarechase
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
Charlie Methven @charliemethven.bsky.social I set cryptic crosswords as Methuselah and Chameleon and write questions for Only Connect • charliemethven.com • he/him
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
Sign up for updates - unchcrosswords.com
Viresh Ratnakar @viresh.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter "Gussalufz" (The Hindu, The Browser, 1 Across, Object, IXL): https://gussalufz.com.
Open source crossword web apps: https://exolve.app, https://exet.app.
Engineer at (A) Large (Company). Intergalactic Interconnectedness Medium.
Coot @coot.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter in the Independent, the Times, the Times Quick Cryptic (as Loon), Unch magazine and on MyCrossword
LRLR @lrlr.bsky.social Clues: minutecryptic.com
Crosswords: The Age, SMH, Saturday Paper
Fiddler on the Pouf @izzienogoud.bsky.social Member of the cruciverse
Tom Pardue @sleepytom.bsky.social Like: music (especially jazz & classical), reading (science, history, speculative fiction), crosswords, hiking and nature viewing.
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
--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social Writer, lawyer. I tweet a good deal about the arts, & about David Lynch / Twin Peaks. (Pic: “Gray and Gold,” John Rogers Cox.)