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650 Letter Bank clues to solve! 😎 Cryptic crosswords for The Browser, OoLF & AVCX 🔠 Find me on Bluesky https://xitter.gq/t.co/fZ666sDD6j 🦋

Toronto, Ontario (RATION)
Joined December 2020
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#LLB289 A poem about rifles and flowers! (2,8,6) 🇨🇦 #LowdownLetterBank #crypticclue #cryptic
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New free Nerfracker today — if you want to dip your toes into the cryptic waters, we've got the pool noodles. therackenfracker.com/the-ner…
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Welcome to day 5 of our ULP strike against the @nytimes. We just published even more strike games for you to play while you #Breakyourstreak. mini.toomuchdog.com/
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One clue a day. Fun little brain exercise. I like to play @minutecryptic (alongside Wordle). Recommend, especially for poets and writers who play with words and meaning. instagram.com/minutecryptic/…
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#LLB555 As horn blown repetitively, it's a New Year! (4,8) 🥳 #LowdownLetterBank
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Read "All about letter banks!" here, courtesy of our crossword editor @xandraladee! 🐍 link.mailer.puzzmo.com/view/… Sign up for our weekly Play by Play newsletter in your Puzzmo account settings! 🤓
Shout-out to @puzzmotoday for making their newsletter "All about letter banks!" this week 😎
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SCRABBLEGRAM* OF THE DAY Haiku While the popular short form poetry traditionally has three lines of 5/7/5 syllables, classical poets use other variants too. Today is day 3 of 6 in a series of 'grams honoring elements of Japanese culture. 🇯🇵 *Uses all 100 Scrabble tiles #haiku
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“Sky, Earth, Other” even 🤦‍♀️ I’ve been spending too much time outside enjoying the welcome arrival of sunshine in the northern hemisphere summer! 😎
Summer in the northern hemisphere, winter in the southern hemisphere. Here's my #Fibonacci poem "Seasons", from "Earth, Sky, Other" – which you can pre-order now from the @PenteractPress store: penteractpress.com/store
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1ACCWC 482 – ARROGANCE - OPEN for CLUES 1across.org/2024/06/16/1accw… via @somsram
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#LLB315 Flaws of Star Wars characters - except for the clones! (5) #LowdownLetterBank
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If the 2010s were Peak TV, the 2020s are Peak Puzzle... and I'm so excited to add a new one to the mix. Introducing my new daily puzzle game, Order Up! Can you put a list in order based on a hidden theme? Give it a play and let me know what you think! orderup.games
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#LLB069 Borrowing traditions (maybe not nice), count April pranks each once, twice or thrice! (8,13) #LowdownLetterBank #crypticclue #cryptic
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🌎☮️⚖️ INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ⚖️☮️🌍 (55 letters) 👣✊ LOTS DEFY IN MARCH ✊👣 (15 letters, no repeats) March 21, 1960 #RememberSharpeville #SharpevilleMassacre #HumanRightsDay 🇿🇦 #FightRacism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾 #Letterbankism 55:15 ratio (3.7)
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If you've ever wanted to solve cryptics but found the barrier to entry too high, try our new beginner-friendly cryptic pack, replete with hints and explainers: newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga… With excellent puzzles by @gpaolopasco, @flyingelevator, @faBioethics, and Trip Payne 🖤🤍
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SCRABBLEGRAM* OF THE DAY Leap Day It's February 29th, the rarest of dates! Happy Leap Day, everyone. 🦘🗓️🎉 *Uses each of the 100 Scrabble tiles. #LeapDay, #LeapDay2024, #LeapYear, #February29, #scrabble
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Cafe Chat (spoonerism) “My Darjeeling is like oil, tea and lab solution.” “Gee! My darling is, like, ‘loyalty and absolution!’”
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A Bold Chef (abecedarian limerick) A bold chef devised eel foie gras. How its juice kills like mouth nirvana! Odd piquant quality — Rich sweet taste: umami veiled with xanaxy yeasty za’atar.
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1AC Clue Writing Contests - 2023 Roundup 1across.org/2024/01/06/1ac-c… via @somsram #1ACCWC Here's our final leader board for the year # Cruciverbalist Points 1 @SatyenNabar 228 2 @textrous 203 3 @ganeshr88 181 4 @ramki66 145 5 @somsram 137 6 @LowdownCryptic 128 7 Anantakrishnan Narayanan126 8 @suyash666 122 9 Raj Jayaram 114 10 Amrita Majumdar 113 Congrats to all the toppers and to our participants. New season kicks off tomorrow Sunday 7th Jan. 2024.
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