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Author: glh

Times 29236 – Tricky Thursday comes roaring back!

Author   glhPosted on 22nd May 2025 at 12:57 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 10:54. I was held up thinking that this might be a pangram and was hunting for a Q in the last few answers, but it was not to be.

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Mephisto 3375 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on 11th May 2025 at 12:31 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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Times 29224 – Infinite Jest

Author   glhPosted on 8th May 2025 at 1:03 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 7:51. I was pretty quickly on the wavelength of the setter, and the early solvers have some pretty slick times (at the time of starting the blog I’m sitting at #3, that will … Read more “Times 29224 – Infinite Jest”

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Mephisto 3373 – Robert Teuton

Author   glhPosted on 27th April 2025 at 2:50 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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Time 29212. Oh yeah, it’s Tricky Thursday

Author   glhPosted on 24th April 2025 at 12:51 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 13:25

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Mephisto 3371 – John Grimshaw

Author   glhPosted on 13th April 2025 at 12:22 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans

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Times 29200 – Thinky Thursday

Author   glhPosted on 10th April 2025 at 12:54 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 8:03. I thought this was going to be the a lightning round and a biff-fest, but I had to have a couple of passes at some answers in the bottom half.

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Mephisto 3369 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on 30th March 2025 at 12:29 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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Times 29188: The return of Tricky Thursday!

Author   glhPosted on 27th March 2025 at 2:41 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Time taken: 14:23. Kind of relieved for that, as I could not see a solution immediately for an across clue until I hit 22 across. Lots of clues that require a careful consideration.

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Mephisto 3367 – Robert Teuton

Author   glhPosted on 16th March 2025 at 12:55 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Greetings barred-grid fans

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