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Total Chaos (Minicryptic #2)

Been busy with tiding the house in order to move soon, so here's a bite-sized offering. A small cryptic puzzle like Bob Weisz makes over at https://talesfromthecrypticcrosswords.blogspot.com/

German Sausage #2

Another simple german sausage puzzle for you all. A repetition of the rules for those unfamiiar: Each of the answers to the Sausage clues is formed by rearranging the letters in the answers to the corresponding Ingredient clues. Ingredients: A: Common pet bird (6) B: Large domains (6) C: More subtle phone setting for incoming calls (2 7) D: Decked (6) E: Black coffee variety (9) F: Buy U A Drank ( ____ Snappin') (6) G: Like a doe (6) H: "The things I'm pointing at." (5) I: Absolute disdain (6) J: Biological subdivision between family and species (5) Sausages: A+B: Picture that's oddly unnerving yet soothing, in modern parlance (7 5) B+C: NFL team whose mascot is named Poe (9 6) C+D: Scenic vantage point (11 4) D+E: Ice cream flavour that may contain Oreos (7 3 5) E+F: "Want me to repeat myself?" (4 4 3 1 3) F+G: Compromises with (5 8) G+H: Is completely comfortable, as a visitor (5 2 4) H+I: One's final movements (5 6) I+J: ...

Vowelless Puzzle #5

Finally out with a full-size 15x15 vowelless puzzle! Unfortunately didn't get the time to playtest so please tell me if you spot a typo or off-by-one enumeration.

Repetition Delegitimizes (Tweetcrostic #2)

A second Tweetcrostic to continue the proof of concept. This one should hopefully be a smooth and quick solve.

Vowelless Puzzle #4

Another vowelless puzzle! And this time hopefully I didn't accidentally forget a letter in an answer!

The Imitation Game (Tweetcrostic #1)

Might make a bunch of these. Tweets/Bluesky posts as acrostics. The convention I'm setting down is that the acrostic of each answer will spell the handle minus the @.