| Illegible handwriting |
The Times Concise |
09 Oct 2025 |
| Sloppy penmanship |
Universal |
04 Oct 2025 |
| Doctor's writing, perhaps |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Last of letters written by creep with bad handwriting (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Write sloppily |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Chicken scratch |
USA Today |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Poor writing |
Puzzler Backwords |
11 Jul 2025 |
| Second to get on hands and knees and write badly (6) |
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| A poor fist made of swimmer's initial stroke (6) |
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| Dash off from small creep (6) |
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| Start to see stroke in poor piece of writing (6) |
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| Awkwardly write small stroke (6) |
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| Last of letters written by creep with bad handwriting (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
31 May 2025 |
| Write "September first"; after that, make slow progress (6) |
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| Sloppy writing |
Thomas Joseph |
03 May 2025 |
| Hasty note from last of swimmers on his stroke (6) |
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| Carl was upset losing a form of hurried handwriting (6) |
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| Hurried handwriting (6) |
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| Sign hurriedly |
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| Slapdash writing |
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| Write carelessly |
Mirror Tea Time |
03 Apr 2025 |
| Untidy piece of handwriting (6) |
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| Write untidily (6) |
Puzzler |
21 Mar 2025 |
| Quickly write introduction of symphony's slow movement |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Write badly, but son has swimming style (6) |
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| Write quickly and untidily |
Puzzler |
21 Feb 2025 |
| Poor writing |
Puzzler Backwords |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Scribble at school, and swim (6) |
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| Careless writing or drawing (6) |
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| Sloppy writing |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Bad writing consists of initial serif and a stroke (6) |
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| Write "Trapped right in the awful claws" |
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| Scribble end of lines, creep (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Write badly (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Many a doctor's handwriting |
Universal |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Small stroke in poor handwriting (6) |
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| Write illegibly |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Dec 2024 |
| Careless writing (6) |
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| Last of letters written by creep with bad handwriting (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 Dec 2024 |
| Write illegibly (6) |
Puzzler |
09 Dec 2024 |
| Bad writing of laws given little credit (6) |
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| Bad handwriting |
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| Write of some miscreants breaking the law? (6) |
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| A bad hand |
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| Start from word Carl's playing in Scrabble (6) |
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| Poor writing |
Puzzler Backwords |
03 Jun 2024 |
| Untidy writing goes from speedy start to go-slow (6) |
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| Crawls around looking for Squiggle (6) |
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| Point to creep doing graffiti (6) |
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| Not what one expects from a good writer (6) |
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| Small creep's untidy writing (6) |
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| Small stroke producing messy handwriting |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Poorly transcribe the second slow movement (6) |
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| Ill-formed handwriting (6) |
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| Messy handwriting |
Commuter |
17 Feb 2024 |
| Scribbled writing makes school's head cringe (6) |
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| It's sometimes hard to interpret small stroke (6) |
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| Hasty untidy writing (6) |
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| Ultimately careless stroke - that's hard to read (6) |
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| Dash off, seeing son move slowly |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Jan 2024 |
| Dash off, seeing son move slowly (6) |
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| Bad handwriting style succeeded first (6) |
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| Messy handwriting |
LA Times Daily |
24 Dec 2023 |
| An instance of hurried or careless writing (6) |
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| Write hastily |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Dec 2023 |
| Scribble end of lines, creep (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Nov 2023 |
| Messy handwriting |
The Times Concise |
22 Nov 2023 |
| Barely legible handwriting |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Untidy handwriting |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Aug 2023 |
| Write illegibly |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2023 |
| Write illegibly |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Feb 2023 |
| Beginning to sign, go very slowly — it’s illegible |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Second toady produces pen, hastily |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Oct 2022 |
| Chicken scratch |
New York Times |
09 Oct 2022 |
| Handwriting on a prescription, perhaps |
New York Times |
04 Oct 2022 |
| Write illegibly |
USA Today |
24 Sep 2022 |
| Bad writing |
The Guardian Quick |
23 Jul 2022 |
| Poorly written words |
New York Times |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Edison leaving out of cowardliness is hard to read |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Mar 2022 |
| Poor handwriting |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Feb 2022 |
| Primarily scruffy stroke in such handwriting? |
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| Untidy handwriting |
The Guardian Speedy |
23 Jan 2022 |
| Untidy handwriting |
The Guardian Speedy |
28 Nov 2021 |
| Son caught naked left barely legible note |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Nov 2021 |
| For some, it passes as a signature |
Family Time |
10 Oct 2021 |
| Write untidily |
The Guardian Quick |
06 Oct 2021 |
| Dash off to see son perform in pool? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Sep 2021 |
| Quickly write section on swimming stroke |
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| Creeps cycle and dash off |
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| Write illegibly |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2021 |
| Edison leaving out of cowardliness is hard to read |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 May 2021 |
| Write badly with small stroke |
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| Squirm after son's bad handwriting |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Apr 2021 |
| Write carelessly |
The Times Concise |
07 Apr 2021 |
| Prescription, to a layperson? |
The Washington Post |
31 Mar 2021 |
| Prescription, to a layperson? |
LA Times Daily |
31 Mar 2021 |
| Careless, hasty writing |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
14 Mar 2021 |
| Letters you can't read |
The Washington Post Sunday |
20 Dec 2020 |
| Untidy writing |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Oct 2020 |
| Write illegibly as a result of s-stroke |
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| It may be difficult to make out Schubert's original slow movement |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 May 2020 |
| Last to come to the fore, is obsequious – that's hard to make out |
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| Illegible writing |
New York Times |
23 Mar 2020 |
| Poor penmanship |
Newsday |
27 Feb 2020 |
| Write quickly seeing son move like a baby |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Oct 2019 |
| Hard-to-read writing |
USA Today |
10 Aug 2019 |
| Untidy drawing |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Aug 2019 |
| Messy drawing, possibly small fawn? |
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| Scribble on sheet's top inch |
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| Hard-to-read writing |
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| Scribble |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Dec 2018 |
| It's hard to read Edison leaving out of cowardliness |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 Dec 2018 |
| Crab on Skegness beach is near place for lobsters |
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| It's poorly written |
Newsday |
24 Nov 2018 |
| Hard-to-read signature |
Universal |
27 Sep 2018 |
| Small stroke – or some wiggly ones? |
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| Unreadable stuff from singular creep |
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| Scribble second slow movement |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jul 2018 |
| Illegible script |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jul 2018 |
| Tough-to-read writing |
Universal |
07 Jul 2018 |
| Illegible handwriting |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Jun 2018 |
| Bad handwriting of son to be all over |
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| Write illegibly |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Mar 2018 |
| Scribble second letter principally about crop |
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| Tough-to-read writing |
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| Hard-to-read signature |
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| Mark with tool, not a scratch |
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| Poor handwriting |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
24 Dec 2017 |
| Write carelessly |
Irish Times Simplex |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Sloppy writing |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Nov 2017 |
| Second stroke results in untidy writing |
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| It's poorly written |
New York Times |
29 Apr 2017 |
| School won't make progress very fast with this manoeuvre and how is one expected to read that? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Feb 2017 |
| It's poorly written |
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| Many a signature |
LA Times Daily |
21 Aug 2016 |
| Opposite of fine print? |
New York Times |
05 Aug 2016 |
| Prescription writing, stereotypically |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jul 2016 |
| Illegible writing |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2016 |
| Slow progress by son — handwriting not very good |
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| Second stroke in poor handwriting |
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| Write carelessly |
The Guardian Speedy |
17 Apr 2016 |
| Write illegibly |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Mar 2016 |
| Opposite of fine print? |
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| Many a signature |
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| Second slow movement that may be hard to interpret |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Nov 2015 |
| Rough hand putting son over edge |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Sep 2015 |
| Son's slow speed in writing |
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| Many a prescription? |
New York Times |
17 May 2015 |
| Union of creep and premier of supermodels – that's hard to understand |
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| Prescription, often |
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| Many a prescription? |
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| Write carelessly |
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| Doctor's penmanship, stereotypically |
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| Rough writer's output |
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| Poor penmanship |
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| A Welsh lecturer visiting senior common room produces illegible writing |
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| Write quickly and illegibly |
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| Impenetrable script |
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| Illegible writing |
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| Scribble |
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| Dash off a note |
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| Write illegibly |
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| Hard-to-read handwriting |
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| Hardly elegant writing |
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| Write messily |
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| Hard-to-read writing |
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| Hard-to-read writing |
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| Hardly elegant writing |
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| Doctor's note? |
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| Example of poor penmanship |
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| Signature, perhaps |
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| It's hard to read |
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| Illegible signature |
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| It's hard to read |
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| Write quickly and illegibly |
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| Messy handwriting |
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| Write badly |
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| Doctor's note? |
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| Hen tracks on paper |
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| Hen tracks on a page |
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| Type of handwriting. |
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| Cacography. |
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| Write hastily. |
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| Write, in a way. |
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| Scribble. |
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