#159: Santa Claus

Hi all! You will find that the title is the most seasonal part of this grid, I fear—good luck! 🎅 (squares.io; parsed answers)

#158: Animal Familiar

Hi all! To destress from last week's giant, here's a baby grid for you—good luck! 🐈‍⬛🧙 (squares.io link)

#157: Vegetable Pizza

Hi all! On no particular account I decided to make you all a Very Big Puzzle this week—good luck! 🫑🍕 (squares.io format)

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#156: Concert Setlist

Hi all! We haven't had a themed grid in a while here, so here you go—good luck!

#155: Privy Chambers

Hi all! Something a bit avant-garde this week: not a single answer in this grid can be found in Chambers Dictionary—good luck! 🕵️🛏️

#154: Keep Score

Hi all! A baby 11x11 grid for you this week—good luck! 🏰⚽

#153: Rogue Planets

Hi all! A somewhat-themed grid for you this week, tested by the great team of MentalPlayground, Liari, Elgel, CrypticMatt and Agnijo, who together managed to rein in some of my baser impulses—good luck! 🦹🌍

#152: Lose the Plot

Hi all! An ordinary 15x15 for you all this week—good luck! 🗺️🕵️

#151: Flower Power

Hi all! An ordinary grid this week, with thanks to Matt for the test—good luck! 💐🌩️

#150: Pay Disrespect

Hi all! To celebrate this milestone I've put together what I hope is a Simply Good Grid in as many respects as I could—good luck! 💷😛

#149: Golden Goose

Hi all! Another baby grid for you all this week—good luck! 🥇🦆

#148: Esprit de l'Escalier

Hi all! An ordinary grid this week with a few long across answers—good luck! 👻🛗

OUTTAKE 18: General Knowledge "Shooting Stars"

Hi all—some more trivia for you all, kindly tested by GAIS, Cryptic Matt and Rubix; good luck!

#147: Inside Men

Hi all! I've intentionally used some wordplay I don't usually like to in this grid (hopefully to entertaining effect)—good luck! 🗃️👨

#146: Nuclear Option

Hi all! An ordinary grid with some fun fill this week—good luck! 🍄☁️

#145: Haphazard Spartans

Hi all! A slightly smaller grid this week for you all with no constraints on the fill whatsoever (I'm lying)—good luck! 🔁⚔️

#144: Rigging Elections

Hi all! In honour of grid number 12², here's... a square grid. Good luck!

#143: Levantine Mythology

Hi all! Inspired by the Times Monthly Club cryptic and by my good friends Potoroo, this grid has been filled with more obscure words than I normally choose—good luck! 🌊👻

#142: Psychic Medium

Hi all! An ordinary 15x15 cryptic for you this week—good luck! 🧙🔮

#141: Paris Fashion

Hi all! A mini cryptic this week with more threes than I usually allow—good luck! 🇫🇷💃

#140: (Ir)reconcilable Differences

Hi all! Some fun fill (I hope!) in this week's grid—good luck! ⬅️➡️

#139: Caped Crusader

Hi all! An ordinary cryptic this week for you—good luck! 🦸⚔️ (With thanks to Mental Playground for the test solve 🥰)

#138: Drive-Thru Dinner

Hi all! An ordinary 15x15 cryptic this week—good luck! 🚗😋

#137: What Nonsense!

Hi all! An ordinary grid this week—good luck! 🤔🤡

OUTTAKE 17: Printer's Devilry "Underground Spaceflight"

Hi all! This weekend I'm inflicting a Printer's Devilry grid on you: the way these work is described well here. Good luck! ⬇️⬆️

#136: Cruise Control

Hi everyone! A baby cryptic this week, which is attempting in vain to be a double pangram—good luck! 🚘🤴

OUTTAKE 16: General Knowledge 4 "Ninety One"

Hi all—some more trivia for you all, kindly tested by MP Cryptics; good luck!

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#135: Dungeons & Dragons

Hi all—a somewhat-themed grid with some appropriate charade elements this week; good luck! 🏰🐉

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#134: Catching Flak

Hi all! With thanks to CrypticMatt for testing, here's a grid that might be a Tad British—good luck! ⚾😞

#133: Custom Claymore

Hi all! Nothing special to report this week—good luck! 🛃🧱

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#132: Bullets Flying

Hi all! Just some good fill clued by good surfaces this week, I hope—good luck! 🔫✈️

#131: Battlefield Knowledge

Hi all! A small 11x11 grid this week—good luck! ⚔️💡

OUTTAKE 15: General Knowledge 3 "Space Travel"

Hi all! Back again with some trivia for you all—good luck! 🧑‍🚀🌌

#130: Frozen River

Hi all! A hopefully pleasant themed grid this week—good luck! 🥶🌊

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#129: Slippery Creatures

Hi all! An ordinary grid this week (with thanks for the title inspiration to KJ Charles)—good luck! 🥿🐶

#128: Eleven Eleven

Hi all! In honour of grid number 1111111+1, here's a grid with *far* too many eleven-letter answers—good luck! ⚽⚽

#127: Chacun à son Goût

Hi everyone! An ordinary grid this week, although my testers inform me it's a tad harder than normal—good luck! 🇫🇷 😋

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OUTTAKE 14: Novelty Cryptic "Raw Deal"

Hi all—just a rather silly idea I had for a cryptic that doesn't deserve a position in the numbered grids; good luck! 🍎🕴️

#126: Strange Bedfellows

Hi all! Before we get to today's grid, I have a special announcement: I have posted a new puzzle on MyCrossword here; the across clues and down clues each form sonnets 😀. I hope you enjoy it—I plan to add grids to MyCrossword only sporadic, so rest assured the schedule here will stay the same. 🙂
Today's grid contains more linked clues than normal, but is otherwise just some good clean (notwithstanding 27d!) fun—good luck! 🤔🤝

#125: Better Safe

Hi all! A baby grid this week, since we haven't had once of those in a while. I think the fill is better than usual (lol) or at least more thematic—good luck! 📈😌

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#124: Impoverished Gentry

Hi all! Just a normal grid with (I hope) some interesting fill and clue constructions—good luck! 😔🤴

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#123: Pole Arm

Hi all! A new themed grid this week—good luck! 💈💪

#122: Looking Daggers

Hi everyone! A theme I've done before; hopefully I've improved as a setter since the last time I had a go at this—good luck! 😠🗡️

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#121: Ragtime Music

Hi all! Back to form with nothing too strange, just a fun grid-shape this week—good luck! 👕🎹

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#120: Pagan Religion

Hi everyone! We hadn't had a barred grid in a while, so here's one with an extra twist—good luck!

OUTTAKE 13: General Knowledge 2 "Revolutionary War"

Hi everyone! Just three months after my last trivia grid, here's a new one with (I hope) even more interesting fill—good luck! 🔁⚔️

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OUTTAKE 12: American-Style 1 "Daylight Robbery"

Hi everyone! Something novel for the midweek: straight clues only (and a lot of them!), although my cryptic nature might peek through occasionally—good luck! ☀️💰

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#119: March Hares

Hi everyone! Something special in this grid which I don't believe I've ever done before—good luck! 🗓️🐰

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#118: Bad Guys

Hi everyone! This grid was an exercise in picking only the most Bespoke and Scintillating words—good luck! 🗡️🤠

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#117: From Dusk Till Dawn

Hello everyone! Rather pleased with some of the wordplay devices in this one—good luck! 🌆🌇

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#116: University of Lincoln

Hello all! Here's another (and better, I think!) attempt at a Z-A jigsaw—good luck! 🧑‍🎓🇬🇧

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#115: Hell on Wheels

Hello everyone! I challenged myself to connect all the acrosses in pairs, and may have succeeded—good luck! 🔥☸️

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#114: Cold, Hard Cash

Hi everyone! This grid has a rather tricky shtick, but my testers assure me that it *can* be solved... Good luck! ❄️💰

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#113: Consanguineous Marriage

Hello everyone! I hadn't done a themed grid in a while—good luck! 🩸💍

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#112: Byzantine Chant

Hello all! I regret to say that I have once again filled this grid shape—good luck! 👼🎶

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#111: Double Definition

Hi everyone! Not every clue in this grid is of the same type, but most are—good luck! ⚽🖥️

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#110: Prepare for the Worst

Hi everyone! There seems to be a nina to find in this grid—good luck!

#109: Justice League

Hi all—a few more words referencing the title than usual in this one. Good luck! ⚖️⚽

OUTTAKE 11: Spiral Puzzle 'NAME HERE'

A new spiral for you all, this time with straight clues for a change :) Good luck!

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#108: Mirror, Mirror

Hi all! You might notice the four ten-letter answers around the outside of this grid have something in common—good luck! 🪞🪞

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