Traditional British-style cryptics, most of them mini-sized. Should be solvable without too much general knowledge (save for a few proper nouns here and there,) and, as a rule, there are limited pop-culture / celebrity references and no excessively slangy / meme-speak terms.
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Poor, sad, unloved Cryptic 5x5 #4! Only 3 persons attempted you, and all 3 bailed out in under a minute. Will you show this lonely-but-lovely little puzzle the attention it deserves?
This one's got the sad distinction of being "worst completion % w/o check/reveal" - as I write this, only 17% of solvers managed without hints. Can you shift the stat?
I can see what I'm aiming at with 5A, but it's clumsy stuff and I should have scrapped it. "Murder your darlings," as they say. Otherwise, hmm, I like 2D but I'm a sucker for the "repetitions that must be parsed differently" gag. To my mind this…
My first 7x7, and it nearly has a seasonal theme... I like the "quintessential flop" part of 6A, and 1D's quite fun, but 4A and 3D feel a little underdone, and, well, as for 5A, the least said the better. I can only apologise.
I always quite enjoy cluing three-letter words, I don't know why; and despite the fact that it has no sensible surface reading, I like 4A. 3D is something of an homage to Private Eye's Cyclops, whose clues can get a bit saucy. Solvers seemed to…
Ok, I'm reviewing my old puzzles and adding blogs to them. This was my first, and, looking back: not bad, but not terribly exciting. Overall, I think the clues are pretty easy. I think 2D's my favourite for managing a coherent surface. Elsewhere,…