Greetings, barred-grid fans. I found this one tricky, and definitely a few notches up from the first few Robert Teuton puzzles. If you trust the wordplay, most of the unusual terms are clear. In Mephisto … Read more “Mephisto 3271 – Robert Teuton”
Author: glh
Times 28600: Painted into a corner
Time taken: 10:10, with about a third of that on the bottom left corner, where all the unusual words and traps lay. If you are confident of some of the spellings of the foreign terms … Read more “Times 28600: Painted into a corner”
Times 28594 – the leader of the Archies?
Time taken: 13:39, but with a very silly typo in 1 down. I don’t think this was as difficult as I made it out to be, many clues took me a number of readings before … Read more “Times 28594 – the leader of the Archies?”
Mephisto 3269 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans. Last Sunday was a busy day for me and I didn’t get around to solving this until Friday late night. Maybe it was solving Mephisto under different circumstances (wine and cheese instead … Read more “Mephisto 3269 – Tim Moorey”
Times 28588 – I hope you didn’t get a 10
Time taken: 11:18, with a brief interruption when a friend asked me if I was doing the crossword and didn’t want to be interrupted. Doesn’t it always happen that way? Even though I took a … Read more “Times 28588 – I hope you didn’t get a 10”
Times 28582 – was there an oldgate?
Time taken: 6:50. Apart from a few double takes, and one answer I had to piece together before I saw the literal, everything went in at a first or second glance, so I expect this … Read more “Times 28582 – was there an oldgate?”
Mephisto 3267 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans! This was a pleasant diversion on a wet and miserable Sunday morning for me. Strangely enough, there were fewer unknown words in this grid than in the daily puzzle I blogged on … Read more “Mephisto 3267 – Robert Teuton”
Times 28576 – you are a fluke of the universe
Time taken: 9:27. This one was right up my alley, with a lot of crafty wordplay, some of which might be visiting us from Mephistoland. There were several answers where I had to trust the … Read more “Times 28576 – you are a fluke of the universe”
Times 28570 – did it 25?
Time taken: 9:53 I’m curious to see what commenters make of this one – I think there’s some crafty wordplay and some obscure words and phrases. If you trust the wordplay it should come together … Read more “Times 28570 – did it 25?”
Mephisto 3265 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans. I remember this being a pretty breezy solve, but I was not sure of some of the wordplay, hopefully a second visit to the clues will sort everything out. In Mephisto puzzles, … Read more “Mephisto 3265 – Tim Moorey”