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juff

@juffowup.bsky.social

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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.)

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Man the Parseword people have fun with this, huh?

A wrong parseword answer of ADNIERTEGVEEGLRFSRINIOHDXS

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tag yourself, me and @longyfan.bsky.social are here

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Wiktionary, under 'n'

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In Collins, under "N."

"no" is a def for N in Collins, between 'newton' and Norse

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

(Coming next week in the April Gnomon)

A diagramless cryptic crossword grid on the surface of a cube

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I get a lot of scolding about my clues from people who say they're Ximeneans, but then I look at their grids and shake my head …

A passage from Ximenes' "Art of the Crossword" with the following quote highlighted: "… because it leads towards what I want to make the first principle of crossword diagram composition, that at least half the letters of every word should be checked. I consider that a five-letter word with only its second and fourth letters checked is unfair to the solver, …"

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The fools! If you just cut the cube up into a stairstep pattern, every across always flows into a down or vice versa. No backwards entry needed!

A terrible mock-up of a crossword on a cube that has been unfolded into a stair-step. It's got a lot of two-letter words in it and probably other problems as well.

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Some clues! “Flat” fare can peak unexpectedly Debated canceling baseball club title Boxer's opening to do maneuvers in period’s first half (2 Wds.)

An 11x12 barred cryptic grid. It has 35 entries and 24 shaded squares. The average entry length is 6.2, and every entry is at least 2/3 checked.

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Saturday’s looking good so far.

Two bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, a pot of coffee, and a cryptic crossword on a clipboard

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I wrote a puzzle for this week's Cryptic Crossweird! www.patreon.com/posts/127090...

A picture of a weirdo in front of a wall of fake flowers making a goofy dreamy face. Captions say "New Puzzle" "andy yingst" and "cryptic crossweird".

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

If you have a triangle whose corners have integer coordinates, you can compute its exact area as the number of integer-coordinate points inside the triangle, plus 1/2 of the number of integer coordinate points along the edges, plus 1/2. Here that's 6+1/2(1)+1/2=7. Neat, huh?

A triangle on graph paper with vertices at (1,1), (5,3), and (2,5). There are six grid-line intersections inside the triangle and one along the bottom edge.

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juff @juffowup.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Just look at my precious baby. So beautiful and so ugly.

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