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Cryptic crossword lover, setter and solver. You'll find my crosswords in The Guardian, Financial Times, The Times & The Independent. Come on, get solving!

Brighton
Joined September 2010
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.John Halpern guest tonight midnight @BBCRadio2 @crypticpaul. AKA Paul top cryptic setter for Guardian. I may be an answer in todays!
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Celebrity Charity Exemplar: Michael J. Fox Foundation - The Nonprofit Quarterly dld.bz/bRtjT
RT @SkyNews: Probe: Was Death Plot Hidden In Crossword? bit.ly/J9po16 (CC @aclueaday @Tilsit @crypticpaul @anaxcrosswords)
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Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future - The Guardian dld.bz/byc6g
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ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE: think you want to be a TV presenter? Well, it's Friday night, and I'm about to do my VAT Return. SO THINK AGAIN.
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@crypticpaul Happy to support you. Please help me to promote the Cryptic Placenames Quiz for @macmillancancer at justgiving.com/theJanuaryQui…
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@crypticpaul Answers are US States; 1) Boo! Your mandible is rubbish 2) 2 things u might need for a physics phd 3) Ta! 4) Switch off saw
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Accompanied @crypticpaul to the Amex to watch Brighton v Leeds. Great stadium, great pies, great game
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Must go to bed.. in danger of downloading and doing tomorrow's @CrypticPaul crossword right now and that would be Plain Wrong at this hour.
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@crypticpaul Wanted to find a time to solve your weekend crossword. It turned out Saturday night was alright...
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@crypticpaul Saturday's 11A and 19,3D: very pretty
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http://bit.ly/p4cDzc Interesting (if you like that sort of thing) article about the River Fleet, London's largest subterranean river.
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@crypticpaul Cracking crossword today - the kind where I hate you right up until I solve a clue, then I love you, then the cycle repeats.
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Just chatted to Tony Bloom chairman of Brighton. Infectious drive for success...impossible not to believe Brighton are heading to the top!
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the prize crossword: Just one this time - thanks very much in advance 39a any of the various... http://bit.ly/oLD2Ae (via TheAnswerBank)
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Today's media stories from the papers http://gu.com/p/3vep9/tf
"I'm just a girl, looking at a duck, asking him to love her." #replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck”
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Hey, there'll be a free audio chapter from Awkward Situations for Men every day this week at bit.ly/lONY9H ...
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A couple of #TweepleAtLords for the MCCU and BUCS finals today. @ASWardy & @michael_swanld making their way here today.