Rusty's Puzzle Journal

This is a cryptic crossword I published on 14th June 2026, also uploaded for posterity. Across 1. Go provide direction (4 3) 5. Always order sides in frenzy (7) 9. Launch broken stone (5) 10. Draw pruned Asian flower (9) 11. Advances made by princes lacking company surrounding Fiona, for one (10) 12. Dictator's influences at taverns (4) 14. Leopardess in fashion that's tailor-made (12) 18. Deep Panama location? (4 3'1 4) 21. Drum set skips every other beat (4) 22. Hoax: Creation of Arc? (4 6) 25. Charges after church speaker supporters (9) 26. Some kids preferring IRL spaces inside (5) 27. Stop UPS distribution, stopping post (7) 28. Infinite: 1 x 1 x 26. Right! (7)   Down 1. Doctor leaves gumdrops off orders (6) 2. "6 is round number" - retired superhero (6) 3. Fermented a merlot with new fruit (10) 4. Stories of King replacing wife from signs of boredom (5) 5. Fine theft regenerated as Ncuti Gatwa? (9) 6. Or...

This is a cryptic crossword I published on 1st April 2025, uploaded for posterity. Across 1. Chemist to sell iodine wrapped in gold (9) 6. Brief show (5) 9. Dish from Sacramento (5) 10. Playing a big blind and acting without a plan (2-7) 11. City’s trendy in the past (7) 12. Union regularly being written into some inheritance? It's perfectly legal! (7) 13. Man and woman enter station (6) 15. Wants some fondant-topped cakes (7) 18. Got to run inside small caverns (7) 20. Site of nut nucleus? (6) 24. Let silence be broken (7) 25. Punch a sailor over the waves (7) 27. Assembled the aristocracy accommodating large colony (9) 28. Hollow out 19 and fill it with a dip (5) 29. Seasons from Syria; Kenya returned them regularly (5) 30. Arrangement of collapsed new prebuilt (9) Down 1. Several entries may be within an example menu? (4 4) 2. Shark made siren rage (7) 3. Member of Ronin, Japanese warrior (5) 4. Lined up two gasses around a pair of metals (2 1 3) 5. Primarily holding See back, ...