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?”
Author: glh
Mephisto 3395 – John Grimshaw
Greetings, barred-grid fans.
Times 29344 – sinking to the bottom
Time taken: 12:38. Not quite ready to declare this Tricky Thursday yet, as some of the early times are very fast indeed.
Mephisto 3393 – Paul McKenna
Greetings barred-grid fans
Times 29332 – Tricky Thursday, country subtraction edition
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.
Mephisto 3391 – Robert Teuton
Greetings barred-grid fans, and apologies for the late post.
Times 29320 – Tricky Thursday, American edition
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.
Mephisto 3389 – John Grimshaw
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”
Times 29308 – Tricky Thursday rides again!
Time taken: 12:55, but at least I got everything correct, having fallen into two extremely obvious traps earlier in the week.
Mephisto 3387 – Paul McKenna
Greetings, barred-grid fans!