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”
Author: glh
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”
Times 27592 – Putin on the 15
Time taken: 10:32. A deliberate solve – very few fell into place immediately, but I wasn’t really slowed down as I solved, it was just a little bit of thinking was required to piece together … Read more “Times 27592 – Putin on the 15”
Mephisto 3101 – Tim Moorey
I found the definitions more straightforward than the wordplay in this puzzle, which is the opposite of my usual experience with the Mephisto where I work on the wordplay first and then confirm the definition. … Read more “Mephisto 3101 – Tim Moorey”
Times 27580 – I’m not loving it
Solving time: 15:29, but with one silly typo. I’ve been a bit under the weather lately and I have been making more of these typo errors – according to the Times Club leaderboard, 13 of … Read more “Times 27580 – I’m not loving it”
Mephisto 3099 – Paul McKenna
I hope this will get posted, I am fighting spotty internet connectivity in a rather cavernous hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. I thought this was a step up in difficulty from recent Mephisto puzzles. Paul McKenna … Read more “Mephisto 3099 – Paul McKenna”
Times 27568 – time to get on the case
Solving time: 16:20, but with one incorrect. Not a typo, not a brain fart, one that I am still pretty stumped on but it is rather late in the puzzle so maybe something will come … Read more “Times 27568 – time to get on the case”