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📖 Publishing Unch, a cryptic crossword magazine: unchcrosswords.com
📺 Streaming on Sundays: https://twitch.tv/CrypticSunday
🪑 Sitting on benches
☕️ Drinking coffee
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"This unique ceramic dish shows a human head composed of penises... The inscription written in Italian on the scroll should be read right to left, like Hebrew; it translates as: 'Every man looks at me as if I were a head of dicks'"
See post. A plate with a painting on it of a head made out of penises. The inscription written in Italian on the scroll painted beneath it should be read right to left, like Hebrew; it translates as: “Every man looks at me as if I were a head of dicks”.
December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Visiting family again.
They're doing their best to make it festive on the ward.
an ersatz reindeer head made out of what I think is a couple of bedpans and a kidney bowl, and a red bauble.
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I think I‘m just about at the stage where I’ve pretty much got enough and could do a bit of one in / one out if need be
Some records
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Got the gridfill done on this week's #Listener, and I've got the theme etc. Just need to locate a few intersection bits now so I can start drawing the lines to get the endgame done...
December 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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❤️🎄💃
A babycham glass full of Guinness
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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@michpunk.bsky.social This just popped up in a crossword-related book I’m reading. Would’ve been helpful a few weeks ago!
Photo of a couple of pages from my crossword book - on one side are two crossword grids and on the right hand side a picture of Sam loyds famous donkey trick
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The scene from love actually where he holds up the sign saying to me you are perfect. The image is doubled so there are two people and instead of the normal face each person has the face of one of the two chuckle brothers. One of them is holding a sign that says to me you are perfect and the other one is holding a sign that says to you Me are perfect.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Cardinal Sin
screenshot from wikipedia: His Eminence Jaime Sin OFS, CCLH, GCS, GCrL, gcYC Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Manila Cardinal Sin in 1988 Province Manila See Archdiocese of Manila Appointed January 21, 1974 Installed March 19, 1974 Retired September 15, 2003 Predecessor Rufino Santos Successor Gaudencio Rosales Other post Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria ai Monti (1976–2005) Previous posts Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro (1967–1972) Archbishop of Jaro (1972–1974) President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (1976–1981) Orders Ordination April 3, 1954 by Antonio Frondosa Consecration March 18, 1967 by Antonio Frondosa Created cardinal May 24, 1976 by Pope Paul VI Rank Cardinal-Priest Personal details Born Jaime Lachica Sin August 31, 1928 New Washington, Aklan, Philippine Islands Died June 21, 2005 (aged 76) San Juan, Philippines Buried Crypt, Manila Cathedral Nationality Filipino Denomination Catholic Church Parents Juan Sin (father) Máxima Lachica (mother) Alma mater St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary Motto Serviam "I will serve" Signature Jaime Sin's signature Coat of arms Jaime Sin's coat of arms Ordination history History Episcopal succession Styles Reference style His Eminence Spoken style Your Eminence Religious style Cardinal Informal style Cardinal See Manila Jaime Cardinal Lachica Sin, August 31, 1928 – June 21, 2005), commonly and also formally known as Cardinal Sin, was the 30th Catholic Archbishop of Manila and the third cardinal from the Philippines.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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OK crossword people - why is masthead alright for M, but redhead isn't for R?
Am I right in thinking it's because a mast is a *thing* that can have a head, whereas red is just an idea?

@amoebacrosswords.bsky.social // @crypticblah.bsky.social
A few more instances of inaccurate types of wording may be helpful. Beginnings, middles and ends of words are apt to be treated very loosely. "Cylinder-head" may fairly indicate C, or "masthead" M; but why should "redhead" indicate R? It can't mean "the top of red", and not even suggestions of cents and billiard-balls will convince me that it can.
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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At the football
#LewesFC
A football match. Several people running around in front of a goal
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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a giant plush angry bird and a copy of unch magazine
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Fifteen years ago today, I won a giant Angry Bird on the big claw machines on Brighton Pier.

Still my proudest achievement.

#GiantAngryBirdDay
a man (me) standing on a pier holding a giant plush angry bird
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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@unchcrosswords.com & a snack

(inspired by @lilypixeldesign.bsky.social)
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A teapot with a Bagpuss tea cosy
October 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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(in Oxford)
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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He is risen
An Easter egg abandoned on a dark road
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Screenshot reads SIR: In response to your correspondent Mr K. Malone, may I say that not only am I unable to solve any clues in your cryptic crossword but, what is worse, I cannot understand the majority of them even after checking the subsequent solution when they appear. William Bourne Oakthorpe, Staffs.
September 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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oh no fifteensquared.net is down for me
September 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Good morning. Coffee and (for a change) The Times crossword.
a crossword printout on a table, with a coffee pot and a cup
September 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"НООССНСНОНСООН" is pretty much the noise I make when I eat an unripe fruit.
dictionary entry for MALIC: "Obtained from apple juice, esp applied to an acid (НООССН,СН(ОН)СООН) found in unripe fruits"
September 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
Barbara Windsor wearing a t shirt with the Sunday Times t-shirt on it
September 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Found a nice spot for a coffee & crossword
A cup of coffee and a crossword in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford
August 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM