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”
Author: glh
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”
Mephisto 3311 – Robert Teuton
Greeting, barred-grid fans. I remember polishing this one off fairly quickly, though was thinking some of the clever clues may turn out tricky to write up. Let’s see how it all settles together. A reminder … Read more “Mephisto 3311 – Robert Teuton”
Times 28840 – spelling agitation
Time taken: 10:47. Was relieved that this came back all-correct, but now I need to research a few pieces of parsing. Hopefully it will all make sense, I relied on wordplay a lot more than … Read more “Times 28840 – spelling agitation”
Mephisto 3309 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans! I remember having a lot of fun solving this one over a few shots of rum while waiting for the Saturday night classic horror movie to start – The Evil Of Frankenstein … Read more “Mephisto 3309 – Tim Moorey”
Times 28828 – a well hidden puzzle
After the first three puzzles this week were pretty easy, I figured I was going to get the stinker. What I didn’t expect was that the link from the Crossword Club did not go to … Read more “Times 28828 – a well hidden puzzle”