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”
Author: glh
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”
Times 26236 – in “good” company
Solving time : I got a few texts during this so the puzzle didn’t have my full and undivided attention, but when I hit the submit button at 17:36, I’m showing as one incorrect. I … Read more “Times 26236 – in “good” company”
Mephisto 2875 – Tim Moorey
Hmmm – well my greatest challenge here was the number of names of people, living or dead (and one where if you looked at a recent photograph, you’d be hard pressed to tell) that were … Read more “Mephisto 2875 – Tim Moorey”
Times 26224 – 1 across makes perfect (and if not you can visit a 10 across)
Solving time : 12:51 on the club timer, but apparently I have one incorrect. Now that I have looked up some of the answers I seem to have found my error and it is a … Read more “Times 26224 – 1 across makes perfect (and if not you can visit a 10 across)”
Mephisto 2873 – Paul McKenna
This one wasn’t as tricky as it look at a first glance – I think on a first reading of the across clues I was only able to get three of them, but slowly the … Read more “Mephisto 2873 – Paul McKenna”
Times 26212: need your vocab chords stretched?
Solving time : 18:18, which is on the higher end of my solving times, so I was finding this one a challenge. I see on the Crossword Club timer that there is an 8 minute … Read more “Times 26212: need your vocab chords stretched?”