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William Snow
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Cryptic crossword enthusiast, setting as Bluebird (Independent), Solomon (FT) and Conto (elsewhere)
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From Hadji Murat: Of hatred for the Russians no one even spoke. The feeling that was experienced by all the Chechens, big and small, was stronger than hatred. It was not hatred, but a refusal to recognise these Russian dogs as human beings, and such loathing, disgust, and bewilderment before the absurd cruelty of these beings, that the wish to exterminate them, like the wish to exterminate rats, venomous spiders, and wolves, was as natural as the sense of self-preservation.
June 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Family Home (for Alice) Demolished without warning you live within the remnants of the roof that once protected you the floors on which you stood the reinforced foundations turned to dust to scattered ash
January 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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My younger daughter’s Taylor Swift obsession has seriously skewed this data!
December 6, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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Billy Collins ‘on rhyme’
It’s possible that a stitch in time might save as many as twelve or as few as three, and I have no trouble remembering that September has thirty days. So do June, November, and April. I like a cat wearing a chapeau or a trilby, Little Jack Horner sitting on a sofa, old men who are not from Nantucket, and how life can seem almost unreal when you are gently rowing a boat down a stream. That’s why instead of recalling today that it mostly pours in Spain, I am going to picture the rain in Portugal, how it falls on the hillside vineyards, on the surface of the deep harbors where fishing boats are swaying, and in the narrow alleys of the cities where three boys in tee shirts are kicking a soccer ball in the rain, ignoring the window-cries of their mothers.
November 26, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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It turns out H isn’t actually in ‘Steps’, but is in fact in ‘Cradle of Filth’.
September 2, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Chuffed to be making my debut today in the FT. You can print a copy at ft.com/crossword or solve it on the smart FT app.
May 3, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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This is a nice initiative by the FT - a mini crossword made up of a mixture of clue types. Hopefully this will be the gateway to cryptics for some.

Alas I missed mini puzzle #3 by me (as ‘Solomon’) in last weekend’s edition.
April 27, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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‘Monsters In My Pocket’ by Luke Wright
November 25, 2023 at 9:36 AM