Greetings, barred-grid fans. I enjoyed this one – Tim Moorey always offers up precise and inventive wordplay and there is a lot of it to enjoy here. A reminder that in Mephisto puzzles, definitions can … Read more “Mephisto 3321 – Tim Moorey”
Author: glh
Times 28900 – real and unreal geography
Time taken: 11:58. I don’t think this is as difficult as I made it out to be, I had two early typos in answers that kept me from completing some pretty obvious cryptics. There’s a … Read more “Times 28900 – real and unreal geography”
Mephisto 3319 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans. Robert Teuton leads us on a merry romp here, I enjoyed a number of clues and I think there are some traps here for the biffers. I hope I didn’t fall into … Read more “Mephisto 3319 – Robert Teuton”
Times 28888 – … and travel
Time taken: 12:11 – and about third of that on the last two answers! I had to piece together the measurement and the war zone, and I was relieved to find that those turned out … Read more “Times 28888 – … and travel”
Mephisto 3317 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans. I was back to my usual Saturday night routine, watching the late horror movie when the Mephisto came out and I solved it over a couple of beers and the 1973 version … Read more “Mephisto 3317 – Tim Moorey”
Times 28876 – around the world
Time taken: 9:48. Early time indications suggest this is a more difficult puzzle. I had a pretty steady solve and was just a scratch outside my average time, though I think the puzzle played better … Read more “Times 28876 – around the world”
Mephisto 3315 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans. This one raised a lot of smiles. The wordplay was challenging, the vocabulary obscure and the surfaces of many of the clues were outstanding. This has been a good week for puzzles! … Read more “Mephisto 3315 – Robert Teuton”
Times 28864 – what the Dickens?
Time taken: 10:11. Most of the early starters found this tough going, I made pretty steady progress until hitting the Dickens reference, which I had to piece together from the anagram with all other checking … Read more “Times 28864 – what the Dickens?”
Mephisto 3313 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans! Tim Moorey brought the challenge last week, with some rather fun surfaces and overall not too difficult a puzzle on the Mephisto scale. I got through this in a single session during … Read more “Mephisto 3313 – Tim Moorey”
Times 28852 – February bonus
I got interrupted while solving this one, so I do not have an accurate time, but I solved it pretty readily, I’d say this is easier than normal. Good thing too, because this has been … Read more “Times 28852 – February bonus”