Crossword blog: Meet the Setter – Styx

Next up in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers is David Stickley, AKA Styx

The name Styx might be familiar to long-time solvers of the Financial Times; it can also be found weekly in the Australian Financial Review (AFR). The setter is David Stickley, who is also the creator of the Stickler Weekly, which he describes as “an international cryptic”. So, let’s meet the setter.

Powerful American cult mostly occupying ruin (8)

Putting experience and energy, captured by film, in broadcast (4-4)

He took two tablets, dropping ecstasy and stuff in bog (4)

Cut by mouth is painful (4)

Service provided by royal household, largely with ill feeling (7)

Stock sleep in one (3,4)