The Times Crossword Masterclass: 28 February 2025

** TODAY'S PUZZLE ** After last week's brutal workout, today's Friday puzzle from ‪@TheTimes‬ is a gentler offering but still contains some lovely clues and some unusual vocabulary. Here we try and explain how to solve it :) (If you do enjoy these crossword videos, please do try and leave a "like" or "subscribe"; we would really appreciate it and hopefully other people who get recommended the video will come to love these puzzles as much as we all do.) The puzzle is available to play on The Times crossword club website (which is behind their paywall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/puzzleclub... Simon & Mark will be doing a live edition of the crossword Masterclass at this conference in March: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/word-puz... ** NEW CONTENT ON PATREON ** Joining us on Patreon costs as little as $2 a month and includes Mark's solve of The Times' Club Monthly special - a vicious cryptic!!   / crackingthecryptic   ** ORDER OUR BOOK HERE ** https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... ▶ Contact Us ◀ Twitter: @Cracking The Cryptic email: [email protected] Our PO Box address: Simon Anthony & Mark Goodliffe Box 102 56 Gloucester Road London SW7 4UB #crossword #puzzle #cryptic