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Times 29356 – maybe Tricky Thursday?

Author   glhPosted on 9th October 2025 at 1:41 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 7:54 – but looking at the early solving times I must have been way on the setter’s wavelength or I knew the references quickly, because my time is better than the solvers I … Read more “Times 29356 – maybe Tricky Thursday?”

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Mephisto 3395 – John Grimshaw

Author   glhPosted on 28th September 2025 at 1:32 AMCategories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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Times 29344 – sinking to the bottom

Author   glhPosted on 25th September 2025 at 2:18 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 12:38. Not quite ready to declare this Tricky Thursday yet, as some of the early times are very fast indeed.

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Mephisto 3393 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on 14th September 2025 at 12:10 AM12 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings barred-grid fans

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Times 29332 – Tricky Thursday, country subtraction edition

Author   glhPosted on 11th September 2025 at 1:58 AMCategories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 11:41. Ground to a halt for a while and had to bring out some paper to work on some longer answers and anagrams.

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Mephisto 3391 – Robert Teuton

Author   glhPosted on 31st August 2025 at 5:35 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings barred-grid fans, and apologies for the late post.

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Times 29320 – Tricky Thursday, American edition

Author   glhPosted on 28th August 2025 at 12:50 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 10:00 on the dot! Although there are a few Americanisms in the grid, I was not on the wavelength of my adopted country.

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Mephisto 3389 – John Grimshaw

Author   glhPosted on 17th August 2025 at 1:23 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings barred-grid fans. I had no internet connection to my laptop on Saturday, so this is a late blog and a few of the trickier clues have already been discussed in the comments. I found … Read more “Mephisto 3389 – John Grimshaw”

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Times 29308 – Tricky Thursday rides again!

Author   glhPosted on 14th August 2025 at 3:44 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 12:55, but at least I got everything correct, having fallen into two extremely obvious traps earlier in the week.

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Mephisto 3387 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on 3rd August 2025 at 12:58 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans!

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