Greetings barred-grid fans! I had a few struggles with this one, particularly in the bottom right hand corner, where I think I was looking too hard for a pop culture or sport reference that Tim … Read more “Mephisto 3221 – Tim Moorey”
Author: glh
Times 28300 – general knowledge abounds!
Time taken: 8:11 I got off to a slow start with this one, but once I got into it, the answers came pretty quickly.
Mephisto 3219 – Paul McKenna
Greetings barred-grid fans, and welcome to The New Place! Hope you are enjoying it so far.
Times 28288 – all welly, no wanging
Time taken: 8:59. Parts of this were tricky, and there were two that I had my fingers crossed for when I hit submit, but they both turned out to be OK.
Mephisto 3217 – Don Manley
Greetings barred-grid fans! I found this week’s offering a little trickier than Don Manley’s recent Mephisto puzzles, though I was not helped by confidently putting TOOTS in at 16 across, and another typo in an early down that held up the top half for a long time.
Times 28276 – looky looky here.
Time taken: 10:02. I thought I was going to be around 8 minutes but I drew a blank on 14 across for quite a while, even though the answer was not too difficult, just had … Read more “Times 28276 – looky looky here.”
Mephisto 3215 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans! My greatest difficulties in this puzzle were in the top left, having a strong conviction that “park” in the clue was going to lead to P. I think near the end I … Read more “Mephisto 3215 – Tim Moorey”
Times 28264 – some self-assembly required
Time taken: 7:52 I found this one pretty breezy, though I had a bit of a leg-up with one of the trickier answers being a word used commonly in my field. Of the early solvers, … Read more “Times 28264 – some self-assembly required”
Mephisto 3213 – Paul McKenna
Welcome barred-grid fans! A change is as good as a holiday, so I am always happy when there is something a little different about the grid. Paul McKenna has given us an 11×13 grid anchored … Read more “Mephisto 3213 – Paul McKenna”
Times 28252 – check your submissions well!
Time taken: 9:55, but with one error. Own silly fault – I had an entry that I knew was incorrect because I had to change a crossing letter, but didn’t fix it up right away, … Read more “Times 28252 – check your submissions well!”