It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you say it. The General recommends buttercup fields. If the player doesn’t show, here’s a direct mp3 link. Off-Grid, In The Field is a series of mini OGP episodes with just one host and The General. The full story of the tadpole is here Human-made podcast […] The post In The Field – Ep. 80 appeared first on Off-Grid.

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,888 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 26 clues by Patanoia. Published Sun 6 Sep 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

This time around we’re enjoying a Farleigh successful slice of things radioactive, impactful and nitwitted. === If that sounds like the sort of punchy stuff that might make you marvel, then please click play: _If the player doesn’t show, here’s a_direct download mp3 _link._ **Support us:** Off-Grid gear is now available again in USA/NZ/AUS, and in the original location. (Customise it! Get flocked!) Buy Us A Coffee. Follow us on Bluesky and the ⁂Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, etc…) by searching for: **`@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net`** Make a post anywhere, including ‘**#OffGridPod** ’. The featured puzzle by Neo is here , and is blogged by Turbolegs here. The General recommends this Mastodon account and looking out for this setter. Dave is @skirwingle on Bluesky, and is bridged to Mastodon. His most recent puzzle is here. Void is @TheVoidTLMB on Mastodon, and is bridged to Bluesky. His latest blog crossword is here, and Unch is here. ======= ## **SPOILERS** and links below the pic… – So, that’d be writing about Petty, Sawyer, Tiddler or Parr, then? – Anyway that doesn’t antimatter now . – No, not one of these, but this sort of thing! – Get your head out of the clouds, Wilson – Galloping along – She was an ice-hater [sic]. – A serving of Mead, a touch later than Void remembered. – If you don’t have a mental block, will you answer all these questions on a postcard, if you please? – He had the bonhomie of a game show host. – Are you inter Lang? Our theme tune is by **The Trudy**, who will help you learn to love, and get over it. Follow them on Bluesky, and find them at Bandcamp or their web site. You can subscribe to Off-Grid in Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and many more, or in any podcatcher that you care to copy-and-paste the feed URL into: **https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/off-grid** **#OffGridPod** is the hash tag for social media mentions: That’d really help us to spread the word. Dropping a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else would make you stand out from the riff-raff. You can follow us on the fediverse⁂ and/or Bluesky by searching for the user `@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net` – replying to which will leave a comment on the relevant entry on this blog (which you can also do manually, of course). Our YouTube out-takes channel has bonus content for you. Human-made podcast by #OffGridPod. ###### Fediverse Reactions Repost * 1 repost Like * * 2 likes Quote ## #### Post URL Paste the post URL into the search field of your favorite open social app or platform. Post URL Copy #### Your Profile Or, if you know your own profile, we can start things that way! Why do I need to enter my profile? This site is part of the ⁂ open social web, a network of interconnected social platforms (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and others). Unlike centralized social media, your account lives on a platform of your choice, and you can interact with people across different platforms. By entering your profile, we can send you to your account where you can complete this action. Your Fediverse profile Go Loading… Remember my profile for future interactions. ### Share this: * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print *

For our 5th (not 9th) anniversary we find ourselves yards short, Taylor, as we pass through New Albany, only hanging around a brief while to swiftly make a few puns. === If that sounds like the sort of thing you wouldn’t cast out, then please click play: If the player doesn’t show, here’s a direct […] The post Yards Short, Taylor – Ep.75 appeared first on Off-Grid.

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

In which the lass on the bus may have been pondering ‘Mars (anag.)’, solving a maze, anticipating a dessert at the Fat Duck or worrying about the Bill(y/ie). === If that sounds like your sort of prescription for brain-fodder then please click play: _If the player doesn’t show, here’s adirect download mp3 link._ **Support us:** Off-Grid gear is now available again in USA/NZ/AUS, and in the original location. (Customise it! Get flocked!) Buy Us A Coffee. Follow us on Bluesky and the ⁂Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, etc…) by searching for: **`@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net`** Make a post anywhere, including ‘**#OffGridPod** ’. The featured puzzle by Solomon is here, and is blogged by Turbolegs here. The General recommends these Mathstodon (or Mastodon) or Bluesky accounts. The Major recommends Listener crosswords by ALP (which are in _The Times_ , and therefore behind a paywall, so we have no direct link here, sorry! … go buy one in a newsagent) and/or _TLS_ crosswords by Apollonius such as this one. Dave is @skirwingle on Bluesky, and is bridged to Mastodon. His most recent puzzles are here and here. Void is @TheVoidTLMB on Mastodon, and is bridged to Bluesky. His latest blog crossword is here, and Mev is in The Indy on May 28th. ======= ## **SPOILERS** and links below the pic… – Ready? Three, two, one … nope, already beaten by a chimp. That’s numberwang. – Who are you calling a bird-brain? Presumably they’ve checked for Clever-Hans-ism, though. – ‘Do you know the piano’s on my foot?’ ‘You hum it son, I’ll play it.’ … only with ants. Thanks, ants. Thants. – Amaze amaze a, er, maze. – A sudden awareness of quantity. (Etymology there folks.) – We have dispensation to use this symbol: ℞. (There was famously once a pharmacist who used as their slogan ‘We dispense with accuracy’ until someone pointed out the issue with that, whereupon they changed it to ‘We never dispense with accuracy’ 🤦) – Bloomin’ Hestonthal’s book, and a tart reminder of his method. – That Latin anagram and its solution (anagrams = ars magna). – Galileo! (Galileo) Galileo figured out… – Sing along: ‘The chances of anything orbiting Mars, are 100%: terror and dread. The chances of anythiiiing orbiting Mars, are 100%.’ It’s **The Trudy** who perform our excellent theme tune. Follow them on Bluesky, and find them at Bandcamp or their web site. You can subscribe to Off-Grid in Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and many more, or in any podcatcher that you care to copy-and-paste the feed URL into: **https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/off-grid** **#OffGridPod** is the hash tag for social media mentions: That’d really help us to spread the word. Dropping a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else would make you stand out from the riff-raff. You can follow us on the fediverse⁂ and/or Bluesky by searching for the user `@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net` – replying to which will leave a comment on the relevant entry on this blog (which you can also do manually, of course). Our YouTube out-takes channel has bonus content for you. Human-made podcast by #OffGridPod. Not part of the episode, but Dave feels the need to add: ###### Fediverse Reactions Repost * 1 repost Like * 1 like Quote ## #### Post URL Paste the post URL into the search field of your favorite open social app or platform. Post URL Copy #### Your Profile Or, if you know your own profile, we can start things that way! Why do I need to enter my profile? This site is part of the ⁂ open social web, a network of interconnected social platforms (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and others). Unlike centralized social media, your account lives on a platform of your choice, and you can interact with people across different platforms. By entering your profile, we can send you to your account where you can complete this action. Your Fediverse profile Go Loading… Remember my profile for future interactions. ### Share this: * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print *

Cryptic crossword No 29,989

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In which we pronounce upon Artificial Zinc Buttons, go mining in Missouri, ponder Eddie’s attractiveness, and seek new speakers. === If you don’t find yourself quaking at all that, then please click play: _If the player doesn’t show, here’s adirect download mp3 link._ **Support us:** Off-Grid gear is available. (Customise it! Get flocked!) Buy Us A Coffee. Follow us on Bluesky and the ⁂Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, etc…) by searching for: **`@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net`** Make a post anywhere, including ‘**#OffGridPod** ’. The featured puzzle by Dalibor is here (select 31st Jan, if you’re quick), and is blogged by Leedsclimber here. The General recommends a nice spot of Unch. Dave is @skirwingle on Bluesky, and is bridged to Mastodon. His most recent puzzle is here. Void is @TheVoidTLMB on Mastodon, and is bridged to Bluesky. His latest blog crossword is here, his last Mev is here(again, click 14th Feb if you’re quick), and he also has a puzzle in the aforesaid Unch Issue #2. ======= ## **SPOILERS** and links below the pic… – Notes and queries here. No longer. – All the skinny on the god of horses is here… – …while the Oracle is here. – The charwoman is in a book here, or in also as incarnated by Lesley Manville, Angela Lansbury, Inge Meysel, and others. – The Blues did not last until the 90s, Void. – Voller what? – Louis Lazarus is one transliteration, but he had a few. – All out cousins thus described? From the town, stands a sailor who dreams of **The Trudy** , who perform our excellent theme tune. Wherever you’re being led, make sure to follow them on Bluesky, and find them at Bandcamp . You can subscribe to Off-Grid in Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and many more, or in any podcatcher that you care to copy-and-paste the feed URL into: **https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/off-grid** **#OffGridPod** is the hash tag for social media mentions: That’d really help us to spread the word. Dropping a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else would make you stand out from the riff-raff. You can follow us on the fediverse⁂ and/or Bluesky by searching for the user `@offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net` – replying to which will leave a comment on the relevant entry on this blog (which you can also do manually, of course). Our YouTube out-takes channel has bonus content for you. Human-made podcast by #OffGridPod. ###### Fediverse Reactions * 1 repost * * * 3 likes ### Share this: * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print *

Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,134 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 32 clues by Penelope. Published Tue 17 Feb 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

Flu is surging early this year so the NHS has established pop-up clinics at venues such as fire stations and bowling alleys as well as pharmacies this half-term

Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine

In which we Censor Mayonnaise Jingles, tut at grave-robbers, locate hats, hunt the snark in a poem, and try to translate backwards.

Twitch is the world

Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine

Alt: Michael Scott (US Office) saying oh my god okay it's happening .