Reposted by TilsitMick Twister @twitmericks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025A royal now banished to Sandringham, Who said other people were slandringham, Is now an ex-Prince Who failed to convince King Charles Epstein hadn't been pandringham. 310417
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 04/10/2025In @theipaper.com #Weekend, #Inquisitor 1928: Dyno-Rod by Triton; Solution 1926: Encyclopaedia by Kirsanov @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 083
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Awards title for limo-hire business? (6) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 1104
Reposted by TilsitViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Is it "accidentally" or "by accident"? Anyway, I sawed my assistant in half 401209184
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Sample from today's @theguardian.com Enigmatist Prize Xword (no spoilers please): He makes a hole in one tree (4) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.socialtheguardian.comPrize crossword No 29,805Prize crossword No 29,805 6226
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025 In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1923: Parallels by Apt; Solution 1921: Friends of Mine by Kruger @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 094
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Take a look at 8 down in Today’s Guardian Prize and 29 across in Today’s Times Prize! #crypticcrosswords 230
Reposted by TilsitJosh Roach @iguesscryptics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Half-cut relatives start to hanker for new set of crosswords (4) 0103
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Dedicated to @timlihoreau.bsky.social, this sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Go on eating a single sausage (9) @derekharrison.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 0114
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1918: Taken for a Ride by Vismut; Solution 1916: Workout by Poat @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 082
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Joe storms after Mike (2,7) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 2146
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Badenoch’s shifflibg her team and bringing James Dimly back. So it's bye to the useless Stride then? 000
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Found it. They have brought the closing date ‚forward‘ for postal entries. cdn.observer.co.uk/media/docume...cdn.observer.co.uk 000
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 13/07/2025A shame the Pbserver couldn’t bring itself to post the first Gemelo puzzle today. @alanconnor.bsky.social 000
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I win as manager? Maybe most of the time! (6, 7) #crypticcrosswords 000
Reposted by TilsitDerek Harrison @derekharrison.bsky.social · 06/07/2025After 53 years of setting weekly crosswords, Azed is to share the load. He will continue to set the puzzles on the first Sunday of the month and judge the clues. On the other weeks the setter will be Gemelo, Colin Thomas aka Twin. The latest Azed Slip is here. www.crossword.org.uk/Azed2763.pdfcrossword.org.uk 0131
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Another cracker from Brendan in today’s Graun A strongman endlessly confused (8) 010
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Looks like the Big Dave community shunned me because I dared not to like yesterday’s Toughie. :( 000
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Find Duncan Shiell's blog for #Inquisitor 1913, What Goes Around by Charybdis, at: www.fifteensquared.net/2025/07/01/i... @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 043
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1915: Circle Line/Central Line by Cranberry; Solution 1913: What Goes Around by Charybdis @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 194
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Lovely Brendan crossword in today’s Grauniad Nice prospect, like this puzzle? (6) #crypticcrosswords 030
Reposted by TilsitRob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I set the cryptic crossword in today's edition of the weekend @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Punch in the mouth? We click "UK" and "NHS" to get treatment (7,8). Solve the puzzle on the FT app or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/a4bf...ft.comFT Crossword: Number 18,099 1174
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Sapphire about to leave India, possibly? (7) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 0114
Reposted by TilsitRob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 25/06/2025"Art" - my radical new hotel opening in the West End (9,4) Sample clue from my Hudson puzzle in today's Telegraph Toughie slot 071
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Sample clue from today's Enigmatist @theguardian.com: Boob initially pops out of bra when it splits sides (6): www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 0174
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Nice response by the lovely Cyclops in the latest Private Eye. 030
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Lovely clue from Bjorn in today’s Times Quick Cryptic (actually several others as well!): Where the animals walk in four by four? (6,4). #crypticcrosswords 000
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 21/06/2025In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1913: What Goes Around by Charybdis; and Solution 1911: Yobs by Chalicea @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 183
Reposted by TilsitSkinny @uncleskinny.bsky.social · 21/06/2025What a super clue in today's Times puzzle: Spooner's take on his characteristic hobby (12) 232
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 20/06/2025@privateeyenews.bsky.social I must apologise to Dicky Mint for comparing him to Nigel Farage. I will pay appropriate compensation in jam butties from the mine. It’s clear Farage resembles the Hon Nigel Ponsonby Smallpiece. 010
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Lovely puzzle from the wonderful La Jerezana (Rosa Klebb) in the Spectator. Within lies this little gem Tempted American with sex in the sack (6) 110
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 20/06/2025@privateeyenews.bsky.social @PrivateEyeNews Have you noticed the similarity between Man of the People Nigel Farage and the Late Ken Dodd’s chum Dicky Mint? I think we should be told. Man of the People. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn... Dicky Mint 100
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Sample clue from today's @financialtimes.com Io: Chief island in group realised Gershwin's potential (7); free to solve at www.ft.com/content/6719... @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.socialft.comFT Crossword: Number 18,084 3115
Reposted by TilsitRob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I set the cryptic crossword in the weekend edition of The @financialtimes.com. Sample clue: Bad smell during snog from Connery put the tin lid on it (6). Solve the puzzle on the FT app or print the pdf here: www.ft.com/content/46f7...ft.comFT Crossword: Number 18,081 1192
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025In @theipaper.com Weekend, #Inquisitor 1912: Absences by Skylark; and Solution 1910: Dead-letter Drop by Kruger @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @jo42.bsky.social 2105
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: Time you enjoy approaching solicitor (5,3) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 296
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I’m feeling rather nervous about Channel 5’s Murder Most Puzzling. A professional crossword setter solves murders a la Miss Marple. Stars Phyllis Logan as the Puzzle Lady. From the trailer, the grids are pretty dreary, bucket loads of double unches and dismal clues. Oh dear. 010
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 10/06/2025One of those odd days when the Daily Telegraph back pager is harder than the Toughie. 000
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 07/06/2025In this weekend's @theipaper.com, #Inquisitor 1911: Yobs by Chalicea; and Solution 1909: Find the Title by Phi @derekharrison.bsky.social @olyduff.bsky.social @alanconnor.bsky.social @mickhodgkin.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social 083
Tilsit @tilsit999.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Tonight’s evening meal: The Sll-Day Breakfast. Cold beans, soggy omelette, a hash brown that resembles a potato cake. Will someone please sort out hospital food? 110
Reposted by TilsitJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Sample clue from today's spot-the-theme Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Toughie: First thing for astronaut, I suspect, to worry about (9) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social @knutcrosswords.bsky.social @somsram.bsky.social 0124