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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I'm back, the crossword-constructing bug's bitten me once again ;)
My first 9x9! It's a different kind of challenge cluing these longer words and I don't think I've quite got the knack of it yet. Like my other "#0" grids, it's a bit of a practice run.
I've gone back and added blog posts to all of my old puzzles, and this is the most recent. This puzzle missed the front page, which means it's had sadly few solve attempts, and zero unclued completions. Will you be first?
Sometimes, the clues just don't come easy at all. This was one of those tmes; I nearly gave up. 6A in particular gave me a bellyache, for some reason.
Sometimes, clues just seem to fall nicely into place. This was one of those times.
Some very intentional grid-filling here in order to put a lot of tuber-references into the clues. This was in (pitiful) homage to the Guardian's mighty Boatman.
My first puzzle in months, and actually making it prompted me to start work on larger grids. Three of the across clues use some kind of repetition to mislead; that's, er, too repetitive, I guess.
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…