Hiii I’m gonna be posting crosswords, contra dance choreography, random blog posts about meditation and buddhist practice, and probably some coding related things!
New preamble coming when I figure out what to say (short version is I have long covid so a bunch of the above is no longer possible, and also why the daily clue project has been discarded for so long (I can barely solve a monday nyt, much less make cryptic clues))
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daily1 clue project
More about this project can be found here.Links for people new to cryptics
- Reintroducing The New Yorker’s Cryptic Crossword
(It has a good intro to cryptic clues if you scroll/read past the preamble) - A Starter Pack for the Cryptic Crossword Curious (new yorker)
- Steve Mossberg’s Quiptics
- These each have a single wordplay type per puzzle:
Today's Clue:
Dynasty called for a heap of M's to be burnt? (6)
clue-type (spoiler)
Punny homophone
definition / wordplay separation (spoiler)
Dynasty = def.
full parse / solution (spoiler)
Dynasty = EMPIRE
called for = hom.
heap of M’s to be burnt = “M pyre”
M pyre hom. = empire
Link to today's puzzle page.
Previous Puzzles:
- 2025-07-27
- 2025-04-10
- 2025-04-08
- 2025-04-05
- 2025-04-01
- 2025-03-31
- 2025-03-30
- 2025-03-29
- 2025-03-28
- 2025-03-27
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