Wordle 1,551 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Minute Cryptic - 17 September, 2025 (I'm up to page 295 which works out something like 19 pages , or about another 8 puzzles further fotward, in the Lucky Dip 2 section of their book. The Minute Cryptic book is good value because after the tutorials there are enough MC style clues to put theory into practice at one's own speed. If the Minute Cryptic book is especially popular I can see others using a Buzz Books style approach. Buzz Books were a publisher of small hardback books for children. In the mid 1980s thought to early 1990 there were small hardback books of Thomas The Tank Engine published by Ladybird Books, each book contained two or more stories from Series 1, and subsequently Series 2. After which point Ladybird did (and do) publish Thomas The Tank Engine books, but single, bigger, more lucrative, original, books. From 1991 through to 1996 Buzz Books used the materials from the Ladybird books but had a single episode per book. So they could turn 1 book into 2 at roughly the same cover price. I know this because a, adult, nephew is somewhat obsessed by them. There must be a ton of cryptic crossword material from British broadsheet newspapers and if the single clue format is popular a lot of that material could be reused. If there are 70-ish clues per crossword that's seventy pages per crossword plus hint pages. Which sounds like it'd be easy and lucrative but it would be a great deal of work because of the hint pages - Minute Cryptic have clearly thought a great deal about the format and progression of their hints. So it wouldn't be entirely Buzz Books-like to produce a knock-off MC style book using existing newspaper crosswords. Although a clue referencing when Dionysus tried having sex with phytoplankton while high would be more accessible to people without a classical education and those who don't listen to BBC Radio 4.)
"Every prime cut from homebred cattle?" (4)
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I scored: 2 under par
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
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