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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 13h

Another jolly amusing little My-Newt Crypticle clue this Humpday, #WQuers, with some clever misdirection, i thought 😃 14 October, 2026 "Mr. Ying after getting PhD for H2O removal" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (9,030 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 14h

And may THE FOURTH be with you 😃

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was trying to explain my occasional predilection for GREEN when that weird old bustard flung me off the cliff. My injuries were severe, but at least I wasn't turned into a newt, and I will get better 😁

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Now look, I dunno whether I should be sharing such sensitive personal information with strangers over the internet, but really it depends a lot on the season, day of week, time of day, the temperature, weather, what I had for breakfast this morning, who's asking, what's their motive, starsign... GRE

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Monty Python: What Is Your Favorite Colour?

Alt: Monty Python: Brave Sir Robin is asked What Is Your Favorite Colour? before being flung into the abyss

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Golf course: a good space spoiled 😉

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Look! A person with degrees from Harvard and Princeton. And her husband a Nobel Peace Prize winner, plus their two children who have never stolen from a cancer charity.

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"dank" Stupid Alt AutoIncorrect!

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Night Moves: he needs you to throw it for him to fetch in the dark

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Truly a Tuesday My-Newt Crypticle clue, #WQuers 😃 13 October, 2026 "I threw contaminated waste away" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (11,320 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.

President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wondered if this might be hard for anyone born in the last millennium 🤔😉

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pales into insignificance beside humans' contribution of both methane and CO2. But yeah, almost certainly 🤣

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A jolly amusing little Monday My-Newt Crypticle clue, #WQuers Cheers 🍷 and Happy New Week, all 😃 12 October, 2026 "Odds of guys accepting defeat in a photo finish?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (12,148 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I guess not many Bogongs make it all the way to Las Malvinas? 😜

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'll be nailing my buttocks to the chair for this one 😆

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Bogan Moth" would be an appropriate moniker, anyway 😆 I've lost count of the number I've caught in the house and released. I catch them in a cloth and carry them outside one at a time. How so many get in past fly screens is a mystery 🤔

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Bogong": The moths are experts at entering supposedly sealed spaces "During the spring, the moths migrate south or east and reside in mountains such as Mount Bogong, where they gregariously aestivate over the summer until their return towards breeding grounds again in the autumn." - Wikipedia

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, it's kind of a non-jest jest 🤪

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That's what it's all about, so "they" say -- lateral thinking 😝 Good solving 😃

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brian 🧠 is back on the job, today swiftly solving Sunday's sneaky My-Newt Crypticle clue, #WQuers 😃 11 October, 2026 "Handful of diamonds put down the drain" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (9,250 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a good thing global heating is a myth, then 🤪

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Brian 🧠 is clearly fried today because this My-Newt Crypticle clue took far too long to solve, #WQuers 🤔 10 October 2026 "Lie about rear dashcam after reversing vehicle and smashing" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (11,075 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a Pardle! 😃 What were you expecting Jan to do? 🤣

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

4⁰ = about the temperature here this morning 😂

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I could see what to do, but Brian 🧠 still took quite a while to compute it!

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Parenting will do that to you 🤣

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel seen by today''s My-Newt Crypticle clue, #WQuers 😃 9 October, 2026 "Any senior, in other words!" (2,2,5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (13,033 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe not a VSW triumph today, but a good build-up to a Pardle from a solid foundation! Well done 😆

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's My-Newt Crypticle clue is probably easier than it first appears, #WQuers 😃 8 October, 2026 "Find 500=100/y" (9) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (10,538 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't want Brian to atrophy 😉🤣

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

D'OH!! Your second guess exemplifies why I dislike Thirdle 🤨

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep. Silly me for thinking! I was stuck on the periodic table and abbreviations for various things. It was far more straightforward in the end 🤷‍♂️

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ha! Well done 😃 Took me far too long 😐

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Neil Alexander @neilalexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good job with VSW - 3/6 on (19)36 😃

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