Tim Moorey has taken a break from the Sunday Times rotation (I guess we will find out next week who the replacement is), but I was relieved to find out he was going to continue … Read more “Mephisto 2887 – Tim Moorey”
Author: glh
Times 26296 – last typo of the year!
Solving time : 13:30, but the club timer is telling me I have two wrong, which usually means a silly typo in crossing entries. And there it is in la femme best known for visiting … Read more “Times 26296 – last typo of the year!”
Times 26284 – I dreamed I was eating a giant 1AC and then I woke up choking on my pillow
Solving time : 7:57, which at about an hour and a half after the puzzle appeared is good enough for the top of the leaderboard, though I suspect not for long. I don’t know if … Read more “Times 26284 – I dreamed I was eating a giant 1AC and then I woke up choking on my pillow”
Mephisto 2883 – Don Manley
Only had a few question marks on this one at the first pass through, so the wordplay was pretty solid for a number of unfamiliar words. Wishing I could have been in NYC or London … Read more “Mephisto 2883 – Don Manley”
Times 26272 – and now we are eight
Solving time : 10:20 for what I found to be a pretty strange puzzle. I made steady progress through and then reached a bank of answers where I thought “is that really what is going … Read more “Times 26272 – and now we are eight”
Mephisto 2881 – Tim Moorey
I got held up a bit in the top right and the middle left, and have one or two wordplay quibbles, which the hive mind may be able to help out with. In case I … Read more “Mephisto 2881 – Tim Moorey”
Times 26260 – a puzzle for after the championship, maybe?
Solving time : 10:57 on the club timer for a puzzle which seems to have a mini-theme of failure, which makes it all the more remarkable that I managed to get a correct entry. There’s … Read more “Times 26260 – a puzzle for after the championship, maybe?”
Mephisto 2879 – Paul McKenna
It was pointed out last week that there had been three rather straightforward Mephistos in a row. I think this one breaks the run, and I can see two reasons why. – the grid construction … Read more “Mephisto 2879 – Paul McKenna”
Times 26248 – a self-referential pangram
Solving time : 10:32, but a lazy typo is keeping me off the leaderboard. Interesting puzzle this one, it is not too difficult, and I expect a lot of the longer answers will be susceptible … Read more “Times 26248 – a self-referential pangram”
Mephisto 2877 – Don Manley
On the gentler end of the Mephisto scale this week, I thought – I managed to get all but a bit of the right hand side out without needing to check in on the dictionary … Read more “Mephisto 2877 – Don Manley”