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Rob Jacques
@knutcrosswords.bsky.social
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Cryptic crossword compiler for The Independent & The Blizzard (as Knut), The Financial Times (Julius), The Daily Telegraph +Toughies as Hudson & The Times +QC as Bjorn Location: Freiburg, Black Forest
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 1d
chortle
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 1d
I set the cryptic crossword on the back page of today's Daily Telegraph.
Sample clue: Aroused date with laciest pants like this? (11)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 3d
Leaves just starting to turn in my little corner of Freiburg
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 3d
DOGE geezer if ever I saw one
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 3d
There's a blog of this puzzle here:
www.fifteensquared.net/2025/10/13/f...
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations to Mark Goodliffe who won The Times crossword champs again after solving a very tough puzzle in under nine minutes.
I set today's Times cryptic which I imagine as a little warm-down he'll knock off sub 3...
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 4d
I ❤️ Viz
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Let's call it a guess...Seven Dials
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Seven Dialects
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Suspect this might be a first outing in cryptic crossword land for VEGAN TAMPONS (anag of *man pants Gove)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Man pants Gove scattered around in the gents...they really annoyed Nigel (5,7)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Man pants Gove scattered around in the gents...they really annoyed Nigel (5,7)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
I meant the aggrandisement of the definition, so to speak
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Was going to say "top journalist" but nobody likes an ass-kisser
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
:)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Dubai-ee
Don't cry-ee
Wipe the tear
baby dear
from your eye-ee
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
Joining S Bean playing a journalist (6,6)
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 5d
I set the cryptic crossword in the weekend edition of the @financialtimes.com.
Sample clue: A quick one in S London 'otel? (5,8).
Solve the puzzle of the FT app or print the pdf here:
www.ft.com/content/a2c3...
FT Crossword: Number 18,184
www.ft.com
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Charlie Methven @charliemethven.bsky.social · 8d
I hope my faithful followers enjoy my latest cryptic, featuring:

Star trio cast as double-crossers (8)
Crossword setters you shouldn't have trapped in vice suffer (7)
American in the way of DC hero unplugging Tesla (8)
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
The Independent's Cryptic Crossword | Play Online for Free | Independent
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puzzles.independent.co.uk
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 9d
Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9d
Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right
Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 10d
That's the besequined Strictly blond bombshell TOM SKINNER (a charade of Tomsk [a Womble] and dinner without the d)
BOSH!
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 10d
Womble denied starter of evening meal - he could do with losing a pound or two (3,7)
#Strictly
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 10d
Womble denied starter of evening meal - he could do with losing a pound or two (3,7)
#Strictly
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 13d
Sheffield United are desperately short of Beyoncé
#totp #rhymingslang
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Dan Dickens @brockwellgrecian.bsky.social · 13d
I set today’s cryptic crossword in the Guardian. This theme is part of the solutions:

Anna Friel’s latest tip for cooking
fruit (8)

Pervert ultimately hid out around
spa (7)

Casualty scene not the first for
Brian Blessed (4)

www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Cryptic crossword No 29,816
Cryptic crossword No 29,816
www.theguardian.com
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 13d
prob won't use the "as Mullahs rally" anagram for the new Archbish
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