Fifeensquared crossword blogger. MA Cantab in compsci and maths. Now looking after the NHS computer networks. Looking forward to retiring and doing bugger all.
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Ok I'm leaving if you wish to find me I'll be @flashling.bsky.social pity this used to be fun and useful.
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Maybe there are more important things going on, but take your mind off things with my puzzle in the @Independent , free at puzzles.independent.co.uk/ga…
Head of Football League stopping team getting debilitating illness (3,3)
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"Kemi Badenoch, your specialist subject is denying you gave your previous answer"
"That's not what I said..."
ALT Kemi Badenoch on Mastermind
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He had a lifetime of rock and roll! (8)
Sample clue from today's Knut puzzle in the @Independent
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📞"I don't know who should be President! The man whose ex-colleagues said is a fascist and wants to do fascist stuff, or the woman who can’t locate a payslip from her McDonald's job 40 years ago!"
"I can see why it’s such a tight race!"
Colin from Portsmouth on Trump vs Harris
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I thought it was my civic duty as he lied while my husband died in hospital on his own.
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Vin rouge? It’s not for consumption when driving on public roads (3,6)
My puzzle in the @Independent today, free at puzzles.independent.co.uk/ga… #cryptic #crosswords
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“Burger King want you to go and serve up some Whoppers, sir. They’ve heard you’ve had a lot of practice.”
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Apprehension about one flaky financial period (6,4)
My puzzle today in The @Independent, free at puzzles.independent.co.uk/ga… #cryptic #crossword
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The person pictured being burned alive was Sha’ban Ahmed. He was a teenage boy. His mum also died. His family were forced to watch on unable to help.
May those who did this to him (and the other innocents just trying to survive) suffer untold horror for the rest of their days.
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I set today’s Independent Crossword, marking a 40th anniversary. You can solve it free here… puzzles.independent.co.uk/ga…
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Delighted to be back with another @Independent cryptic today.
puzzles.independent.co.uk/ga…
Sailors wasting five years at sea? They probably won't agree! (8)
Where pigs presumably go to sleep warm (6)
Hope you enjoy.
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You need to be careful as these can be poisonous, toxic and have mind altering properties that make you believe anything. Picking the wrong mushroom can be quite dangerous too.
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Journalists falling over themselves to interview Boris Johnson should understand that most of us don’t want to see his face nor hear his voice ever again. But if you want to put him in one of those Red Bull soapbox cars and chuck him down the steepest cobblestoned fucking hill in the uk we’ll be there with a folding chair and a flask of tea.
