Solving time: 15:32. It has been rather an odd week, since I breezed through yesterdays while many found it difficult, and I found this one tricky, but there were already three much better times than … Read more “Times 27652 – don’t 6, 7, take it 20 at a time”
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Mephisto 3111 – Paul McKenna
Greetings all, I hope you are staying safe and sane! Tricky workout this time around from Paul McKenna (I don’t know enough Latin to do the O Tempora crossword but I see it was his … Read more “Mephisto 3111 – Paul McKenna”
Times 27640 – let ‘er 24
Time taken: 11:14 Not sure what to say about this one – there’s a lot of phrases in the grid that I wouldn’t use, and most of them have wordplay that helps you to get … Read more “Times 27640 – let ‘er 24”
Mephisto 3109 – Don Manley
Greetings all. Hope everyone is safe and well! It seems interest in the Mephisto has been picking up over the last few weeks which is awesome, it is definitely a puzzle that takes longer to … Read more “Mephisto 3109 – Don Manley”
Times 27628 – in which I do not advance
Well I am well and truly beaten! After about 20 minutes, I gave up and bunged in answers for the two that I could not make head or tail of, and hit submit. One of … Read more “Times 27628 – in which I do not advance”
Mephisto 3107 – Tim Moorey
Greetings all Tricky puzzle from Tim Moorey this time, but a good one for fans of wordplay, there were a lot of clues where I pieced together the wordplay and then checked in on the … Read more “Mephisto 3107 – Tim Moorey”
Times 27616 – one for you to 10 before it 15 you
Solving time: 8:54. A little faster than my usual, but I think I might have just been on the wavelength here, as there are some unusual phrases and entries where the wordplay came quickly to … Read more “Times 27616 – one for you to 10 before it 15 you”
Mephisto 3105 – Paul McKenna
Greetings all, Thanks for everyone who helped me with not being able to use the blog generator template – it turned out that something had changed in copying and pasting from the website where … Read more “Mephisto 3105 – Paul McKenna”
Times 27604 – let’s get retro!
Solving time : 12:40. Struggled a little here especially near the end where I was trawling the alphabet for likely candidates for the last few entries. For the past few years I have been using … Read more “Times 27604 – let’s get retro!”
Mephisto 3103 – Don Manley
Fun puzzle this one, with some juicy wordplay. My favorite part of Mephisto is finding new words from clever wordplay, and this puzzle had a lot of that. 9 down took me back, with the … Read more “Mephisto 3103 – Don Manley”