Look closely at today’s #SquareRoutes in #TheTimes and you'll see someone holding the key to a significant step in this week’s puzzle - not one to be lightly swept under the carpet. If that rings a distant bell, it might give you a plan of attack for today's grid - happy solving!

🎶It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it’s time to grab a pencil and enjoy #SquareRoutes tonight.🎶 On Frank Oz's 80th birthday #TheTimes invites you to use Fozzie logic on its most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational teaser.🎂

Today’s #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes ought to be a key ingredient on the breakfast table, to be enjoyed along with cereal and tea or coffee perhaps. But beware about overdosing on good things - too much CHOCOLATE PUDDING can make a MAN STOUT. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Looking for some swift tailor-made entertainment this weekend? Today's #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes is graded Easy, so shouldn't take too long. Bonus question for music fans: Which song, related to today’s theme, was at the top of the UK singles chart 50 years ago today?

Square Routes can played interactively free this weekend, and can be found under the "Word Puzzles" tab at the link Mick has provided.

On #GlobalWindDay if puzzling's your BAG then have a BREAK and let #SquareRoutes in #TheTimes put you through the MILL. But don't be a CHEATER: with brain POWER and TUNNEL vision the solution should FALL into place and you'll SURF on a wave of victory.

Spotting the theme of the #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes is a good way of staying mentally fit, so here’s a helpful reminder for today - exercise COSTS NOWT. Bonus question: Which colour is most often associated with the thematic GARNET in today’s list: Red, Amber or Green?

Pucker up for today’s #SquareRoutes in #TheTimes which marks #InternationalKissingDay with some notably smoochy screen pairings. But which 1934 film, starring THREE of the below, was the kiss of death for gangster John Dillinger, shot by FBI agents immediately after seeing it? 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

It’s Saturday again, time to make order out of chaos and face up to the twists and turns of the #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes. How long will it take you to solve? Let us know if you can finish it in less than 3.13 seconds! Have a good weekend, everyone!

Check carefully and you should see TWO relevant men in today’s #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes - they’re there in black and white. It’s an Easy puzzle, so should appeal to rank and file solvers who shouldn’t need to sacrifice too much time to discover the ending. Happy solving!

#SquareRoutes in #TheTimes today marks both the 100th anniversary of an ending *and* a new beginning this weekend in the same location. Games experts should run rings round both the puzzle and this extra clue to its theme: Imagine each sport simply thrills here (3,7,5,2,5).🥇

#SquareRoutes in #TheTimes marks the centenary today of the death of a literary giant with a medium-strength puzzle that offers a good Chance of Victory. To those who fear the horror! the horror! of failure, just remember: it’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. 📚

On #WorldLionDay cool cats who take pride in their solving will purr at today’s #SquareRoutes in #TheTimes. The mane thing is not to be Cowardly, a Drooper or a Cross-Eyed Clarence or Elsa mental Scar could result – show a Brave Heart and you’ll soon be king of the jungle. 🦁

We bring you a TRAVEL ALERT courtesy of today’s #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes - join us on a mystery tour for wordplay fans round British towns and villages. If you complete this Hard puzzle, reward yourself with some REAL ALE or a LATE TEA! Have a good weekend, everyone!

Today’s #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes might appeal to solvers with a HANDY LARGE BRAIN or fans of HEDONISM. Whether you're a a PSALTERIAN PRUDE, a fingernail BITER or GNAWER, or a SLOTH, this puzzle could be for you. But please, no WHINGERS today! Happy solving, everyone!

Feeling a bit flat? Compose yourself for today’s #SquareRoutes puzzle in #TheTimes, a key part of the Mindgames canon. Note that it’s pitched at Medium on the difficulty scale, so if you’re sharp and puzzles are your forte, hey presto, you’ll get to the solution. Happy solving!

If #SquareRoutes is your weekly VICE then take a seat and ARM yourself with #TheTimes and a pencil. It’s an EASY puzzle today so there’s a HIGH chance it won’t drive you POTTY, make your HEAD SWIVEL or cause you to give it the PUSH and take an early BATH. Good luck! 🪑

Put down your GAMING CONSOLE, pick up a WRITING implement and prove your mind’s OPERATING properly by doing #SquareRoutes – our OCCASIONAL puzzle in #TheTimes - over your BREAKFAST COFFEE. If you’re a sure CARD and not a BIRD brain you might just scoop the POOL. Good luck!