r/crosswords • • 2h ago

SOLVED COTD: Ed is a revolutionary to the audience (5)

6 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 3h ago

SOLVED COTD: Where to go when you can't go inside? (8)

4 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 6h ago

SOLVED COTD: Party with only bottle or draft? Out of the question (2,3,2)

6 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 6h ago

COTD: How incorporating crumbling ember produces moonshine (8)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 4h ago

COTD: Hunt for the pirate’s liquor, wizard! (7)

2 Upvotes

Just started writing cryptic crosswords, this is my first with a decent surface


r/crosswords • • 10h ago

TOTW: Driving 🚗

6 Upvotes

Thanks for u/SirJimothySmalls for picking my clue as the winner!

This week's theme will be an activity that takes people places: driving! Make your clues (surface/wordplay) about driving, whether it's the driving test, specific driving behaviors, or cars/driving in general.

Clues will be reviewed until 22nd October 2026, 11.00 BST and the winner will be announced within 30 minutes.

Buckle your seatbelts, keep a minimum 2-second gap, and let's start the race!

(I just started driving recently lol, that's why I picked this theme)

(It was either this or online games after 2010, but I don't really the demographic here supports the latter option)


r/crosswords • • 11h ago

SOLVED And Burger King is destroyed containing nothing significant (14)

6 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 7h ago

COTD: Laundry load in a state? (10)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 3h ago

COTD: Tanner's favourite French king executes duck number 6 ahead of time? (7)

1 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 9h ago

SOLVED COTD: Leader of DUP, one MP Sir is, at first, upset to be jailed (10)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 7h ago

SOLVED COTD: Where to find the editor of pedestrian Latin text describing guardians (2,4,8)

2 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 8h ago

COTD: Hostile takeover by Scottish beef? You heard it here! (4)

2 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 6h ago

COTD: Like Predator IV, skipping first three (8)

1 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 11h ago

COTD: Look sideways: "loops" becoming "spool" (4)

2 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 15h ago

COTD: Pat is third Irish (4)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 23h ago

COTD: Vigorous daily sex causes disability (8)

13 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 13h ago

COTD: Foolish, less hairy race (10)

2 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 19h ago

SOLVED COTD: Tore through abstract shapes with elocution primer to provide syntax for lispers? (11)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

Cryptic crosswords (preferably in book form) with similar difficulty to the Guardian's Quiptic?

6 Upvotes

I'm still relatively new to cryptics, but find now that the super-easy ones are a breeze for me while the Quiptic is just the right level of challenge for me!

When it comes to non-cryptics I much prefer a physical book to a website but it seems that the only Quiptic book is out of print (and fetches £20+ on eBay!). Is there a (readily available) book of cryptics with a similar difficulty?

The regular Guardian Cryptic is beyond my understanding for now, but would the Times' Quick Cryptic be a similar level?


r/crosswords • • 1d ago

SOLVED Cracking The Cryptic rejecting MC clue ultimately: "Work of art?!" (8)

7 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

COTD: Foreign settlers are illegally streaming (7)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

SOLVED COTD: Say, for the sake of argument, a big tear rips? (8)

3 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

SOLVED Assess section of endometria gently (6)

7 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

SOLVED COTD: Necessary to adjust boy to a girl (10)

8 Upvotes

r/crosswords • • 1d ago

COTD: Farmer's complaint after losing crops - "it's a headache!" (8)

3 Upvotes

Bit of a silly one!