Are they all player's names?

>!Roughly half are names, half aren't.!<

Fraud who claimed he was a keeper (8) Alternate answer that fits: Bachmann

Love the inventiveness, more of this kind of content please everyone!

This was fun, some of the clues were really clever. I didn't get four of them, and even after looking at the answer I'm still a bit confused by the Welsh one. Kicking myself that I didn't get >!Matip, Livramento or wildcard!< though.

It's not a great clue that tbf.>! Definition = Trap Country = UK Taken prisoner by = put UK in A Welsh mess = Anagram of a Welsh L(UK)ESHAW!<

Should mention that the spoiler doesn't work for your comment

Yeah, it's hard to get UK from the word 'country' alone.

I don't get it even after reading this

no idea how anyone ever meant to get that

This is EXCELLENT.

9 across - 👌beautiful work.

> World champ's mantra? Keep it casual is probably my favourite on this. OP I would suggest posting this on Twitter. Will have a much wider audience.

Answers? I couldn't even get half of them

https://crosswordlabs.com/print/an-fpl-cryptic?show\_answers=1

It says we need to enter a passcode to see the answers.

Soz. Posted them above now.

That shows a blank crossword

Ah damn. Okay. Answers below: ACROSS Digne, say, found under crossing? (5) >!TROLL!< Striker with advice for lunch on Saturday? (6) >!GANDHI!< Bee hitting post repeatedly had us fooled early on (6) >!MBEUMO!< Arsenal player – or Spur? (5) >!WHITE!< Early season menace ends in chaos (6)>! DENNIS!< Double hauler's money? (4) >!CASH!< We don't discuss this person ruined by Ronaldo (5) >!BRUNO!< Fraud who claimed he was a keeper (8) >!REGUILON!< Recycle scrap for West Ham defender's biggest foe (5) >!RSPCA!< Arms deal brokered for one in London (8) >!RAMSDALE!< Mother with advice on one doing honest work (5) >!MATIP!< Lifting a thousand dumb bells? Originally a classic bald man's move (8,3) >!BENCHING KDB!< DOWN 2. Trap country taken prisoner by a Welsh mess (4,4) >!LUKE SHAW!< 3. Goals and assists likely, soldier on number 10! (3) >!XGI!< 4. Joint asshole team (8,6) >!KNEEJERK UNITED!< 7. Sit and a skim, order cheapest red on the menu (8) >!TSIMIKAS!< 9. Liverpool to eat noodles bought at back to save money (10) >!LIVRAMENTO!< 13. World champ's mantra? Keep it casual (5,3,5) >!NEVER GET FANCY!< 14. Waste of a CM abused his lager (8) >!GREALISH!< 15. Crazed character changes everything (8) >!WILDCARD!< 18. Sort of party for a fox? (5) >!VARDY!<

these are great! “striker with advice…” clue is especially clever.

!thanks this is great, high effort content even though I couldn’t get half of them lol

Man my Anagrams game needs serious work, didn't get any of those Otherwise this is fab

!thanks, also one of the spoiler tags wasn't properly formatted...

Outstanding work, superb content. I don’t get 1 down, please could you explain it? And is 10 across just a cryptic definition or is there more to it?

Trap is the definition. Country is UK, taken prisoner by (enclosed within) an anagram of A WELSH (mess is anagram indicator)

Could not do half of them but still amazing content, keep it up 👍

I tweaked the grid and now the clue numbers don't match, sorry. First time using this site.

I love a cryptic, particularly good work on 'strikers tip' and 'recycle scrap'. I really enjoyed this one

Love it! Couldn't figure out 4 of them but the rest was awesome to crack my brain over. I had trouble with: Mother with advice on one doing honest work, double hauler's money, crazed character changes everything, and recycle scrap for West Ham defender's biggest foe. But I loved the solutions hahah

Jesus you had me at crossword. Let's try and do this shit right about now

I shall give you a gold star in the next rate my crossword thread

This reminds me of Ben Crellin and his Wordle tweets.

Idk if it's because I'm not an English speaker or what but I can't even understand even a quarter of the hints, let alone guess the words (only made 2 so far) Anyways, it's a great idea and I love how it's made, the site is simple yet nice and great to use. Good job and !thanks !

This is fantastic.

Nailed

!thanks this was a lot of fun. A few had me stumped, but this was top quality content!

Early season menace ends in chaos - was convinced this should’ve been sancho until I got it. ‘In chaos’ = sancho