r/crosswords • u/GBR87 • 2h ago
r/crosswords • u/Background_Pay_3113 • 3h ago
SOLVED COTD: Where to go when you can't go inside? (8)
r/crosswords • u/HighCountryBob • 6h ago
SOLVED COTD: Party with only bottle or draft? Out of the question (2,3,2)
r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 6h ago
COTD: How incorporating crumbling ember produces moonshine (8)
r/crosswords • u/KeanuSucksSoBad • 4h ago
COTD: Hunt for the pirate’s liquor, wizard! (7)
Just started writing cryptic crosswords, this is my first with a decent surface
r/crosswords • u/someguyinthefridge • 10h ago
TOTW: Driving 🚗
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 • u/Far-Character-5953 • 11h ago
SOLVED And Burger King is destroyed containing nothing significant (14)
r/crosswords • u/0x746d7000 • 3h ago
COTD: Tanner's favourite French king executes duck number 6 ahead of time? (7)
r/crosswords • u/Fear_aisteach • 9h ago
SOLVED COTD: Leader of DUP, one MP Sir is, at first, upset to be jailed (10)
r/crosswords • u/JackHK • 7h ago
SOLVED COTD: Where to find the editor of pedestrian Latin text describing guardians (2,4,8)
r/crosswords • u/HumanTorch23 • 8h ago
COTD: Hostile takeover by Scottish beef? You heard it here! (4)
r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 11h ago
COTD: Look sideways: "loops" becoming "spool" (4)
day 270 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it. sorry for the lateness
day 266, day 265, day 264, day 263, day 262, day 261, day 260
day 259, day 258, day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/Acceptableintthe80s • 23h ago
COTD: Vigorous daily sex causes disability (8)
r/crosswords • u/controlxj • 19h ago
SOLVED COTD: Tore through abstract shapes with elocution primer to provide syntax for lispers? (11)
r/crosswords • u/TheLetterKappa • 1d ago
Cryptic crosswords (preferably in book form) with similar difficulty to the Guardian's Quiptic?
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 • u/ShotandBotched • 1d ago
SOLVED Cracking The Cryptic rejecting MC clue ultimately: "Work of art?!" (8)
r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 1d ago
COTD: Foreign settlers are illegally streaming (7)
r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Say, for the sake of argument, a big tear rips? (8)
r/crosswords • u/not-without-text • 1d ago
SOLVED COTD: Necessary to adjust boy to a girl (10)
day 269 of an experiment in which i press the "random word" button on onelook and make a cryptic clue out of it. sorry for the lateness
day 266, day 265, day 264, day 263, day 262, day 261, day 260
day 259, day 258, day 257, day 256, day 255, day 254, day 253
weeks 33 to 36 (days 225 to 252)
weeks 29 to 32 (days 197 to 224)
weeks 25 to 28 (days 169 to 196)
weeks 21 to 24 (days 141 to 168)
weeks 17 to 20 (days 113 to 140)
r/crosswords • u/Darazu_ • 1d ago
COTD: Farmer's complaint after losing crops - "it's a headache!" (8)
Bit of a silly one!