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Day: 7th May 2023

Mephisto 3270 – The terminal puzzle?

Author   vinyl1Posted on 7th May 2023 at 1:14 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

I didn’t have much difficulty with this one, although the pun was even more excruciating than usual.     There are a few obscure literals that you have to check in Chambers, but this is scarcely a novelty in Mephisto.

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Sunday Times Cryptic No 5057 by David McLean — Whoa… what was in that one?!

Author   Guy du SablePosted on 7th May 2023 at 12:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

I found this rather discombobulating. Did finish in one go, but it took a while. Several answers seemed quite obvious, but the parsing was not.

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