🍺 William Ryan
@williamryanpubs.bsky.social
🍺 Sydney, Australia
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‘Crosswords in the Pub’ sees a big roll-up. 🏏 cricket now on. Hour, ten - four short. Four I cannot parse. Will revisit @ Lunch.
@dontattempt.bsky.social
@dontattempt.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’ sees a big roll-up. 🏏 cricket now on. Hour, ten - four short. Four I cannot parse. Will revisit @ Lunch.
@dontattempt.bsky.social
@dontattempt.bsky.social
@dontattempt.bsky.social I really wanted MUSICBOAT & BOATMUSIC to work…
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@dontattempt.bsky.social I really wanted MUSICBOAT & BOATMUSIC to work…
Celebrating International Callipygous Day with the definitive jentacular beverage. Weather is here; wish you were beautiful, @dontattempt.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Celebrating International Callipygous Day with the definitive jentacular beverage. Weather is here; wish you were beautiful, @dontattempt.bsky.social
Tranche MKII, another hour. Still three sort. Tough day at the office, mate…
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tranche MKII, another hour. Still three sort. Tough day at the office, mate…
Friday’s ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ sees me flying solo. Posting this in two tranches: a bit tricky, today. A couple of big-letter solutions holding me up. Below, 1 hour in. To be continued… @dontattempt.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Friday’s ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ sees me flying solo. Posting this in two tranches: a bit tricky, today. A couple of big-letter solutions holding me up. Below, 1 hour in. To be continued… @dontattempt.bsky.social
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‘Crosswords in the Pub’, a quorum of one in attendance, at the Glengarry Castle, post code 2008. Fifty-odd minutes, one (proper noun) short. Great fun, DA. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’, a quorum of one in attendance, at the Glengarry Castle, post code 2008. Fifty-odd minutes, one (proper noun) short. Great fun, DA. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Dirty? Nay, filthy.
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Dirty? Nay, filthy.
‘World's best Negroni?’
‘Sì, assolutamente !¡’
‘Sì, assolutamente !¡’
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
‘World's best Negroni?’
‘Sì, assolutamente !¡’
‘Sì, assolutamente !¡’
‘Crosswords in the Pub’ finds itself in Surry Hills, the old Cleveland Hotel. Solo solve, 1hr,10m, last half dozen in took almost half that. Thanks, David. Not. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’ finds itself in Surry Hills, the old Cleveland Hotel. Solo solve, 1hr,10m, last half dozen in took almost half that. Thanks, David. Not. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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‘Crosswords in the Pub’, comes to you, this Friday, from the Eveleigh Hotel, Fern Rouge (the Paris End of Redfern). Solo solve, about 45m, couple short. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’, comes to you, this Friday, from the Eveleigh Hotel, Fern Rouge (the Paris End of Redfern). Solo solve, about 45m, couple short. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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October 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’ was just the two of us - duelling cryptics. We both finished in about an hour - each missing two or three - different ones! Strange like that. Outré amusant, @dontattempt.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’ was just the two of us - duelling cryptics. We both finished in about an hour - each missing two or three - different ones! Strange like that. Outré amusant, @dontattempt.bsky.social
‘Crosswords in the Pub’, delayed & diverted, due to [redacted, due to pending police action].
Attacked (pun, intended), this tricky little iteration, O sole mio. Two short, 63mins.
This missive comes to you from the Paris end of Fern Rouge, Eveleigh Hotel. @dontattempt.bsky.social
Attacked (pun, intended), this tricky little iteration, O sole mio. Two short, 63mins.
This missive comes to you from the Paris end of Fern Rouge, Eveleigh Hotel. @dontattempt.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
‘Crosswords in the Pub’, delayed & diverted, due to [redacted, due to pending police action].
Attacked (pun, intended), this tricky little iteration, O sole mio. Two short, 63mins.
This missive comes to you from the Paris end of Fern Rouge, Eveleigh Hotel. @dontattempt.bsky.social
Attacked (pun, intended), this tricky little iteration, O sole mio. Two short, 63mins.
This missive comes to you from the Paris end of Fern Rouge, Eveleigh Hotel. @dontattempt.bsky.social
Four attendees @ ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ (Friday edition) @ 2 hours = Eight solving manhours - and still two (2) short.
Love your work (most of the time), @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Love your work (most of the time), @dontattempt.bsky.social
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October 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Four attendees @ ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ (Friday edition) @ 2 hours = Eight solving manhours - and still two (2) short.
Love your work (most of the time), @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Love your work (most of the time), @dontattempt.bsky.social
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October 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Wow. Tough day at the office. ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ had a cohort of seven, and we needed all hands on deck to finish this incarnation. Lots of ❓ so I’ll have to go visit Zinzan’s blog to decrypt a few. 4-down may go down as COTY. Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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September 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Wow. Tough day at the office. ‘Crosswords in the Pub’ had a cohort of seven, and we needed all hands on deck to finish this incarnation. Lots of ❓ so I’ll have to go visit Zinzan’s blog to decrypt a few. 4-down may go down as COTY. Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Isla: ‘Poppy, when are we off to the pub?’
Me: ‘My beautiful grand-pupper, it’s only 8:30am [AEST] - We must wait until the little hand points to X’
Me: ‘My beautiful grand-pupper, it’s only 8:30am [AEST] - We must wait until the little hand points to X’
September 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Isla: ‘Poppy, when are we off to the pub?’
Me: ‘My beautiful grand-pupper, it’s only 8:30am [AEST] - We must wait until the little hand points to X’
Me: ‘My beautiful grand-pupper, it’s only 8:30am [AEST] - We must wait until the little hand points to X’
Took me a week to locate a (1) like-minded cruciverbalist in West Wyalong, for Friday’s edition of ‘Crosswords in the Pub’.
‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I with them’
Lot of fun, DA. The White Tank Hotel salutes you. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I with them’
Lot of fun, DA. The White Tank Hotel salutes you. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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September 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Took me a week to locate a (1) like-minded cruciverbalist in West Wyalong, for Friday’s edition of ‘Crosswords in the Pub’.
‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I with them’
Lot of fun, DA. The White Tank Hotel salutes you. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I with them’
Lot of fun, DA. The White Tank Hotel salutes you. @dontattempt.bsky.social
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September 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
No ‘Crosswords in the Pub’, this Friday; on the tools @ White Tank Hotel, West Wyalong.
Dear @jimchalmers.bsky.social you’ve finally made the big time with 19-across.
Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Dear @jimchalmers.bsky.social you’ve finally made the big time with 19-across.
Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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August 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
No ‘Crosswords in the Pub’, this Friday; on the tools @ White Tank Hotel, West Wyalong.
Dear @jimchalmers.bsky.social you’ve finally made the big time with 19-across.
Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Dear @jimchalmers.bsky.social you’ve finally made the big time with 19-across.
Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Great fun at ‘Crosswords in the Pub’! We congregated at Bondi Junction, this week - the brains-trust didn’t take caps off pens until well into the thinking juice. The ‘Nina’ around the perimeter helped greatly.
Thanks, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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Thanks, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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August 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Great fun at ‘Crosswords in the Pub’! We congregated at Bondi Junction, this week - the brains-trust didn’t take caps off pens until well into the thinking juice. The ‘Nina’ around the perimeter helped greatly.
Thanks, @dontattempt.bsky.social
**SPOILERS**
Thanks, @dontattempt.bsky.social
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