#107: Captain, My Captain

A bit more symmetry and a fun centre in this grid shape—good luck! 🛥️💘

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OUTTAKE 10: General Knowledge 1 "Cook the Books"

Hi all! I thought I'd mix it up for the holidays and test your trivia skills instead of your wordplay mastery—good luck! 🍛📚

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#106: Christmas Magic

Hello everyone! Ahead of the Christmas weekend, I thought I'd grid something rather unusual for you all—Happy Christmas, and good luck! 🪄🎄

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#105: Piratical Cutlass

Hi everyone! I've been told some of the words in the grid are rather fancy—good luck! 🏴‍☠️⚔️

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#104: Capsula Cacaoticorum (Box of Chocolates)

Salvete! Partem cuiusque indicii in hac ænigmate verbali Latine scripsi—res secundæ!
Hello everybody! Every clue in this crossword contains a bit of Latin—good luck!

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#103: Cup Final

With thanks to GAIS for the clue for 17 down, I present a truly unnecessary number of 15s—good luck!

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#102: Autochthonous Animals

Hi all! This grid fully lacks a particularly-common symbol (and this paragraph lacks it too lol)—good luck! 🦅🐢

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#101: Star Crossed

Hello all! A baby grid today as I (and you?) recover from last week's giant; I think this grid features some of my "signature moves" 👀. Good luck! 🌟🃏

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#100: Grand Scheme

Hello all! This is truly a momentous occasion—I never dreamed when I began that I could reach a hundred grids, and such a momentous occasion must of course be celebrated with a giant cryptic :D Many thanks to all of you who helped test my grids and to everyone who's enjoyed (or suffered through) solving them. Good luck! 🌳🏛️

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#99: Outlawed Maths

I felt I hadn't done a pangram in too long :D Good luck! 🏹🔢

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#98: Star of Bethlehem

Some tricky clues in here but I'm sure you're up for it—good luck! ⭐✝

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#97: Hothouse Flowers

With deepest apologies to all people unfamiliar with the delights of British English vocab... 🇬🇧💐

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#96: Christmas Card

A small theme in this grid that can quite easily be ignored—good luck!

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OUTTAKE 9: Packing Crates 3 "Chemical Wit"

Hello everyone! For this outtake, another 'Crate Packing' puzzle! I just *had* to know if having only two clues per line was doable—your mileage may vary on whether I succeeded :D The rules are are follows (all clues are cryptic):
1. each row (1-15) is a sequence of two words, as clued on the right.
2. each crate (a-z) contains a single word or phrase, clued on the left alphabetically by answer.
Good luck!

Spreadsheet version: crates 3 sheet.ods
Answers: crates 3 solution.png
Full puzzle image: crates 3 puzzle.png

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#95: American Exceptionalism

I like the word choices I made in this grid, and 3 down may be my favourite surface ever—good luck!

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#94: Dead Space

With apologies for the once-again-morbid title, a grid entirely composed of 9s and 5s—good luck!

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#93: Death in Every Direction

Somewhat-nonstandard title that may give a hint to the conceit of this grid—good luck! ☠🧭

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#92: Pointless Meddling

A new A-Z jigsaw for everyone this week; the more user-friendly spreadsheet version can be found here. Good luck!

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#91: Naval Gazing

A blink-and-you'll-miss-it theme is hiding in this grid—good luck!

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#90: Irish Monastery

After the projective-plane grid a while back, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I made a torus :D Good luck! 🚲

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#89: Brazil Nuts

A smaller grid this week—good luck! 🎷

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#88: Godfather Flock

Look, when I put together this grid shape I couldn't *not* fill it, could I? 😎 Good luck!

#87: Green Knight

A baby 11x11 this week—to make up for the lack of 11s in most 15s :) Good luck!

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#86: Notable People?

Nonstandard title for a cute grid which is somewhat themed :) Good luck!

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#85: Neighbourhood Superhero

A type of theming in this grid I haven't done before—just something in the circles that might help you along :) Good luck!

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#84: Arthur and Merlin

A... classic theme this week—good luck! 👑🧙‍♂️

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#83: No Wonder!

Another Big Boi for you all this week. Good luck!

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#82: Money to Burn

Some nice long clues for you to chew on this week—and my sincerest apologies for 12 Down (children, look away!) Good luck! 🤑🔥

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#81: Missionary Position

A new grid with a rather pretty shape, if I do say so myself :) Good luck!

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COLLAB 2: Movie Stars

The answers in this grid were clued by my good friends the inestimable GAIS and (current writer for) Travisty. Blame Thank them for their wonderful efforts, and good luck!

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OUTTAKE 8: Spiral Puzzle 'Undertale & Minecraft'

Now with spreadsheet support! :) Good luck!

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#80: Forest Fire

OK yes this one I made for the gimmick :p

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#79: Alphabet Mafia

Happy Pride Month y'all. 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

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#78: Fire Escape

I'll be honest, a good portion of this grid's motivation was trying to think of a surface for 1A :p

#77: False Impression

And out of nowhere, another A-Z grid! :D

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#76: Stark Mad

Perhaps rather *too* many connections here...

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OUTTAKE 7: Packing Crates 2 'Clock Tower'

Hello everyone! For this outtake, another 'Crate Packing' puzzle—this time it's cryptic! 😮 The rules are as follows (all clues are cryptic):
1. each row (1-15) is a sequence of 2-3 words, as clued on the right.
2. each crate (a-y) contains a single word or phrase, clued on the left alphabetically by answer.
Good luck!
Spreadsheet version: crates 2 sheet.ods
Answers: crates 2 answers.png
Full puzzle image: crates 2 puzzle.png

#75: Executive Propaganda

A new theme grid to play with—have fun and good luck!

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#74: (In)visible Capitalism

The four 11s around this grid conspire to create two 22-letter phrases, relating to the grid's title. Good luck!

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#73: Godly Family

A quick cryptic with some fun multiword answers here–good luck!

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#72: New York Odyssey

Inordinately pleased with the fill of this grid, I'll be honest—good luck!

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#71: Pease Pudding

A cute little chain of clues in this grid—good luck!

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#70: Famous Last Words

More connected clues in this grid that I usually think to do. Good luck!

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#69: Seven-Course Meal

Nice.

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#68: Atmospheric Pressure

Managed to make this baby grid a pangram, woohoo!

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#67: Flint and Steel

An almost-ordinary grid today (if we ignore the 30-letter monstrosity sandwiching the grid). Good luck!

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#66: Red Hood

Some high-falutin' words in this here grid, even for me. Good luck!

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#65: Danish Pastries

A baby grid for you all today. Have fun! 🥐

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#64: Epson Salts

A nice and friendly theme grid for today. Have fun!

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OUTTAKE 6: Spiral Puzzle 2 "Unfortunate Crocheting"

This one's better than my first spiral I think, which is perhaps unsurprising :D

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#63: Saltwater Symphony

In this grid, every answer begins with the same letter. Have fun! :D

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OUTTAKE 5: Spiral puzzle 'Funny and Handsome'

Hey everyone! For this puzzle, the two sets of clues produce the same 100-letter string, except that each is the reverse of the other. Have fun!

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#62: Holey Devil

(look sorry for the pun ok)

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#61: Black Beauty

I haven't included a nina in a grid for a good while, so I thought I ought to (things rapidly spiralled out of control, however...). Have fun! 🐎🖤

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#60: Reflection and Refraction

A classically-thematic grid, since we haven't had one of those in a while. Have fun! 📏🅰️

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#59: Pandora's Talks

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#58: LOL JK

A rather personal theme involving my initials in this grid—good luck!

#57: Vegetable Vegetable

(I know right great title) Ordinary grid this time, but watch out for the three 9,9 clues!

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#56: Christian Charity

Look out for the Zs in this grid! :D

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#55: Rome, Italy

Slightly smaller grid than usual this time! 🇮🇹

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#54: Adventure Novels

After last week's ZA jigsaw, I thought we could have a nice and ordinary AZ jigsaw like we have had before. Good luck! 🤠📖

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#53: Extra Cool

Here's a baby grid to see how fast you can do! 😎😎

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#52: Fish Stew

With all due credit (and curses) to MentalPlayground for the idea, here we have the familiar A-Z jigsaw grid with a twist: the final letters proceed from A to Z. Good luck!

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OUTTAKE 4: Crate Packing "Mayor Cooper"

EDIT: Clue (l) contains an error; it should read "Model mooted by Galileo"
Hello everyone! For this outtake, a new style of puzzle I've seen called "Crate Packing", for example here. The rules are are follows:
1. each row (1-15) is a sequence of 2-4 words, as clued on the left.
2. each crate (a-y) contains a single word or phrase, clued alphabetically on the right.
Good luck!
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#51: Black Hole

Nothing unusual today bar the fun grid shape :) Have fun! 🌌

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#50: Shrinking Violet

Wow, fifty grids already! 🥳🥳🥳 Many, many thanks to all of you who enjoy my grids—good luck with this one and all those to come!

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#49: Salad Days

Today's grid is rather thematic throughout, though there's no extra rules, don't worry. Have fun!

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#48: Folk Stories

Ordinary grids for this week, enjoy :)

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OUTTAKE 3: Junimoji "Dead Lift"

I've recently come across a very interesting style of word puzzle, the Junimoji. Naturally I have decided to write one myself; it can be found here. The rules are explained in full on the site. Have fun!

#47: Improper Fraction

To celebrate Literally Nothing at All, here's a giant cryptic to feast on—have fun! 😋½

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#46: Pilot Fish

Classic grid with nothing special except a 30-letter clue right in the middle there—good luck! 👨‍✈️🐟

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#45: Redacted Reverend

A fun new grid with a mysterious theme... Good luck! 🕵️🎲

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#44: Significant Figures

My first barred grid! I hope you all find the novel layout enjoyable :)

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#43: Brute Force

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#42: Sleeping Pills

A little crossword today—how fast can you solve it? 👶 [Warning: this grid may be considered difficult]

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#41: Law Suit

Circular grids, part two! 🔴

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#40: Foster Child

Another A-Z jigsaw, because who doesn't like those! This time, I've given you the first letters of every answer—but left out the enumerations. Good luck!

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#39: Indiana Sky

For a change (and as an excuse to put in some nineteen-letter clues, of course!), a novelty grid shape for you all—enjoy!

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#38: Junk Bond

A grid filled with long words galore!

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OUTTAKE 2: SudoCross

Normal sudoku rules apply. In each row or column, words have been clued in the order they appear–they may overlap.

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#37: Chocolate Shoes

A new themed grid, since we haven't had one of those in a while! 🍫👟

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#36: Charming Deception

Another completely normal grid today—enjoy!

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#35: Look at the Letters II

A special grid to celebrate New Year's Day—the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Look at the Letters puzzle—enjoy!

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