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New(ish) crossword solver here 👋 This was a fun Monday with lots of easy clues mixed in with some complete guesses. Like many others it was OASiS that stumped me. Nice to see a few international references as well such as LOO! When I started solving crosswords I saw many of you suggested starting to go through Mondays. Now it’s like a challenge to myself, when I get a moment, to breeze through (hopefully!) a Monday or two. Slowly but surely I find myself understanding the crosswords 😄 Reading the comments here is always joyful and I appreciate the general positivity of the crossword solving community. With that being said, let me know if there’s any tips you have for solving! Happy Monday!

This was fun! Although had to look up a couple of the US based sports clues. You could say I was MISGUIDED by some tricky crosses today

ELS trying to catch me out again!

loved this one! just the right amount of fun clues while still being a challenge

got the World Cup theme fairly quickly and thought I was in for a quick solve time. then got absolutely stumped by the rest of the grid! have never heard of NOWISE or LOGE. I am also continuously thrown off by ASTA and UTES which is fun. supporting 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 not for patriotism but to see the men’s team finally catch up with the women’s team and win it!

this took me almost an hour to complete but proud to get gold eventually. BRIER tripped me up for a while- not sure we get this in the UK?