Forgot to put a placeholder up earlier, I wasn’t able to get round to the blog yesterday. I seem to recall this one being pretty straightforward, I have about seven question marks on my grid, … Read more “Mephisto 2801 – Paul McKenna”
Author: glh
Times 25781 – anything you can do I can do 7ly
Solving time : 19:49, but with two errors. One I can see immediately as a typo, the other may take a little more finding. This is a tough one, there’s an opera clued by an … Read more “Times 25781 – anything you can do I can do 7ly”
Mephisto 2799 – Don Manley
Most of this went in very quickly, but then I hit a few strange words with general knowledge wordplay, and after finding them from the definition in the dictionary, I had to do a bit … Read more “Mephisto 2799 – Don Manley”
Times 25769: when religion meets maths
Solving time : 15:33, putting me at the top of the Club timer, but I suspect not for long. There’s a few that I was kicking myself for not seeing straight off, so there’s some … Read more “Times 25769: when religion meets maths”
Mephisto 2797 – Tim Moorey
I found the last few of these (particularly the top left) rather difficult, though after ripping through the first half of it without a dictionary, I thought I was going to be in for an … Read more “Mephisto 2797 – Tim Moorey”
Times 25757 – so when is the first qualifying puzzle appearing?
Solving time : 15:26, and I’m currently fourth on the leaderboard, so I think I was just a little off on the wavelength here. Though there’s one that I can’t figure out the wordplay for … Read more “Times 25757 – so when is the first qualifying puzzle appearing?”
Times 25475 – another Thursday Tough one!
Solving time : I started on this one and then a call and a few texts, so I wasn’t completely engaged in it, putting in the last entry at 26:33 on the club timer. I … Read more “Times 25475 – another Thursday Tough one!”
Mephisto 2793 – Don Manley
Hi all – I’m working in Dallas this weekend and am not likely to get a chance to write up this weekend’s Mephisto until Sunday afternoon my time (late Sunday night UK time). So here’s … Read more “Mephisto 2793 – Don Manley”
Times 25733 – bet the easy crossword is going to look dead easy today!
Solving time : 26:45 – which has to rank as one of my slowest solves ever, and I was on the verge of going and leaving this, but I have limited computer batter life and … Read more “Times 25733 – bet the easy crossword is going to look dead easy today!”
Mephisto 2791 – Tim Moorey
And now time for sports – there’s an English cricketer and a soccer player in here, and reading the clues I thought there might have been another cricketer hiding in wordplay (not so but I … Read more “Mephisto 2791 – Tim Moorey”