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@knutcrosswords

Cryptic crossword compiler for The Indy & The Blizzard (as Knut), The FT (Julius), The Daily Telegraph (Toughies as Hudson), The Times (QC as Bjorn) and The Observer (Calypso) Location: Freiburg, Black Forest

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“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

06.03.2026 15:17 👍 150 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
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"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 91 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 1

such a duckhead

06.03.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rubbish team playing at Portsmouth then? (9,7)

05.03.2026 22:21 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

The sledgehammer will be out at half time right enough

05.03.2026 20:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Igor looking a bit Peter Gabriel there
#TOTCRY

05.03.2026 20:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1

Masculine Klan luminary we made Homeland Sec (9,6)

05.03.2026 19:54 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't use the Klaus Barbie sobriquet.
It isn't big and it isn't funny.

05.03.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Derek needs to retune to Medium Wave

05.03.2026 15:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Independent's Cryptic Crossword | Play Online for Free | Independent Play The Independent's Cryptic Crossword instantly online. The Independent's Cryptic Crossword is a fun and engaging Online game from The Independent. Play it and other games from The Independent.

Amoeba is back in the Independent today, with clues including:

Washington police finally arresting target involved in scandal (9)

Solve for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

I hope you enjoy it!

05.03.2026 08:11 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

04.03.2026 10:29 👍 194 🔁 74 💬 15 📌 32

Sample clue from my puzzle on the back page of today's Telegraph:
Beery yobbo Elgar sozzled, left unconscious (5,4)
Disclaimer:
Any relevance or resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental

04.03.2026 10:23 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Might need to uncork another bottle of Solidarity Rioja

03.03.2026 17:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Oval Office looks like the display window of a darts trophy shop I once saw in Withernsea

03.03.2026 17:16 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"listen Freddie, nominate me for the Nobel and I'll buy you something pretty"

03.03.2026 16:53 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
03.03.2026 15:53 👍 295 🔁 75 💬 4 📌 3

well, the lad's name is a tl;dr portmanteau of Mercedes-Benz...

03.03.2026 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, just imagine dear old Denys Thatcher rocking up at the UN in his golf togs sucking on a Senior Service and sipping at a nice Glenlivet while chairing a sesh at the UN

03.03.2026 16:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This lady's sad to be leaving Dubai but is very much looking forward to hosting duties at Mansfield v Arsenal in the FA Cup 5th round

03.03.2026 16:39 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

a dream built on sand

03.03.2026 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump's rambling, disrespectful babbling about his ballroom drapes during a supposedly solemn ceremony marking the loss of US military personnel should mean curtains for his presidency

03.03.2026 16:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PSA: Matt Goodwin simply won't stop whining and moaning - he's such a *loser*
Bobby Jenrick has lost a fair bit of timber after snarfing all that Ozempic - his trousers are a bit *looser*.
Thank you for coming to my frustraTED Talk.

03.03.2026 12:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starts to doubt undermining Britain after Isabel Oakeshott stuck here (5)

02.03.2026 18:28 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Don Draper

02.03.2026 17:07 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Situation Room, or "a curtained-off bit of the members' bar in the Mar-a-Lago clubhouse behind the 18th green" as it's sometimes also known

28.02.2026 20:37 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Not a drop of rain and 27C in San Sebastián, 25 in Bilbao. So lucky.

28.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Having returned yesterday evening from a fabulous week in the Basque Country I understand this

28.02.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Take it away Madge:
Get Gnonto for Gruev
'cos you've got to improve
your team's xG
#LEEMCI

28.02.2026 19:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.02.2026 16:30 👍 1118 🔁 391 💬 58 📌 22

We'll be using precision strikes.
Ish.

28.02.2026 15:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0