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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 9h

#OctoberOptimism Fantastic crossword club with fantastic women ❤️

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Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social · 19h

There will be a #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service, but I'm a tad under the weather right now so I can't guarantee I'll be on top form. Still, I wanna do puzzles by @longyfan.bsky.social, Baz & @tpgrammar.bsky.social, so do them I will - see you at noon! www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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fiend in feline shape -~ they/he -~ mainly just replacement streams for twitch.tv/crypticsunday -~ still not panthchesh — pantherapuzzles streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to cha...

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 22h

Alas still no #CrypticSunday stream today as family duty calls. Back next week hopefully!

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Will Lacey be allowed to wear flat shoes for the rest of the dances as well, if the heels were painful for her? I hope so, I'm surprised more women don't just nope out of them #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like Lacey's toddler, I also point at Vito and say Vito! when I see Vito #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrong film Cach, Danny Zucchini is of course in Ratatouille #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two routines in a row based on films about sex work, what are the chances. Not that they can mention that apparently #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's lunacy to do your couples choice in week 2. They only work when you've already built basic technique, chemistry and trust over time imo #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OctoberOptimism Peak Saturday. Got my hair cut, had a nice lunch, then went to the cinema. Now doing crosswords and pondering snacks for Strictly...

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This looks like you've paid two year 10s to pretend to be your parents at parents evening #CelebrityTraitors

Bella Ramsey and James Acaster grilling Richard Grant

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess a lot of man bands devolve into doing rubbish songs about cars but this Bluetones nonsense has got to be the worst example #totp

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When we're looking for the big spoon in our house we sing Big Spoon, Big Spoon, where's the Big Spoon to the tune of Sex Bomb #totp

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to see this come to fruition! I'm probably buying everything 😍

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OctoberOptimism Looking forward to a 3 day weekend having booked Monday off for no other reason than I felt like it, a huge luxury after years of parenting where every bit of annual leave was sucked up by childcare.

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LilyPixel Design @lilypixeldesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh very clever design @unchcrosswords.com one might even say it was visually … cryptic… 👏 👏 👏

Four small a 5 magazines of cryptic crosswords sit on a green cutting mat grid, the layout of each front cover together spells “unch” - the name of the magazine publication in a big almost visually cryptic design

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get this and other amazing crosswords while you can folks! The Independent is discontinuing its cryptic at the end of this month ☹️

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe I'll try #OctoberOptimism again this year. So far so good: gorgeous clouds over Lewes as the sun rose, an adorable sleepy dog on the train, and it's the return of Celebrity Traitors tonight!

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The Void ザ・ヴォイド @thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you’d pay for a subscription of daily #cryptic #crosswords by Independent setters, please tell Mike. Comment #152 fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/indep…

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No one knows anything but himself or herself. And that badly. Don't you think so? Other people are seen and heard and felt. Known? Not on your life.

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A most enjoyable and educational episode! #OffGridPod

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Matt @wyrd.systems · 28/09/2026

Thought I'd got all the animal ones then I realised I forgot about drey #OnlyConnect

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry, no #CrypticSunday stream today as @wyrd.systems has fucked his knee up and is out of commission.

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If Cach hadn't been allowed to do a bit of his own style to get comfortable in week 1, he would probably have been awkward and unwatchable for several more weeks, so I'm all for it #scd #strictly

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seizing the moment, excitedly point out crisp (13) A scene from my daily life and also a clue from today's Telegraph cryptic crossword (my first time setting it!)

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Spinning Potato Chips

Alt: GIF of a mesmerising potato crisp rotating on a black background

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Henri @henriwords.com · 23/09/2026

The best practical advice I’ve seen so far is in comment number 55 by PostMark at the link in John’s post below - email the managing editor of the Independent Details are in that comment 👍

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John Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you know that @the-independent.com is planning to shelve its cryptic crossword at the end of October? Get involved, by contacting the Indy directly, by retweeting this post and/or by commenting at fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/i.... Save the Indy #crossword!!

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Independent Cryptic Crossword – the future – Fifteensquared

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Twm @twm-barlwm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Attention rookie crossword setters! The crossword website bigdave44.com – the internet’s most active crossword review blog (34,500 visitors per week and 89,000 page views) – is encouraging more puzzles from new compilers for its weekly Rookie Corner slot.

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Panthera @pantherapuzzles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All aboard the #CrypticSunday Replacement Stream Service! We'll be stopping at puzzles by @henriwords.com, Baz & @cricket82.bsky.social, and if Henri doesn't bust my brain too much I might even get to lom - new to me, but I'm weak to the cover kitty. Departing at noon: www.twitch.tv/pantherapuzz...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's a weird transformation challenge ranking. Beth's was objectively gorgeous and Anna's was... damask and pompoms #SewingBee #gbsb

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...

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Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Completely inexplicably, I found a hazelnut nestled on my pillow when I woke up this morning. I can only assume that I'm now in a fairy tale and this is the beginning of an important forest-based quest 🌰

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen."

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

T has now left the building 😭 but they did bestow on me this emotional support GIF before they went ❤️

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We may have watched far too much ER this weekend trying to finish another season before T goes back to uni tomorrow, but it was worth it. S12 is an absolute banger.

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was knocked over by a mobility scooter earlier today (drunk driver, inattentive fellow pedestrian apparently in his path? Unclear.) But I'm ok, and more importantly so is the bottle of emergency gin I was taking to @emmachaplin.bsky.social!

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child - Quicksand and pylons (obv, I went to a British school in the 80s) - Marionette puppets in the cupboard at my grandma's - That orangey streetlamp light (due to a recurring dream) - Twins - CGI talking babies in films etc (still hate this)

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

browsing words that have a buuuunch of letters in a row and learned there's a "friendly association" in france of sausage enthusiasts anyway jsut thought you might like to know

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Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do you like quizzes? Do you like industrial estates in Cardiff? Do you like being tortured by questions? Do you like a labyrinthine format where no-one goes home? Do you fancy seeing me scuttle shiftily around the studio? Then apply for the next series of Only Connect! www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favourite H.D. poem Sea Rose. She was born #OTD 140 years ago www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48188/...

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like buses, three pieces of good crossword news all arrived at the same time today... 🎉

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you get the i paper, today's cryptic crossword is by me 😊

Partial page from newspaper showing clues to cryptic crossword no 4865 by Angel

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"And I've made all the clergy out of radishes." Just when I think I might be getting bored with #TheArchers, they pull me back in!

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