In last week’s Mephisto blog, Peter suggested Mike Laws as the most difficult of Mephisto setters. I beg to differ, I find Tim Moorey with his mixture of particularly obscure words and forays into the … Read more “Mephisto 2507 – Tim Moorey”
Author: glh
Times 24016 – so how’s your spelling?
Solving time : 16 minutes. Got a fast start on this and filled in a lot of the grid, then got held up on some very silly spelling mistakes – a pheromonic application and an … Read more “Times 24016 – so how’s your spelling?”
Mephisto 2503 – Mike Laws
I started this on a plane, and had most of the right-hand side filled in without much trouble. The left side ended up being a disaster for a long time, with two rather silly guesses … Read more “Mephisto 2503 – Mike Laws”
23998 – under construction
Solving time : 26 minutes. Time should have been a lot faster, but I was doing this online from a hotel that allegedly has high-speed internet. It has unreliable internet that can be pilfered from … Read more “23998 – under construction”
Times 23992 – beating the Plantagenets at the rat-race
Solving time : 29 minutes. I did myself in by initially getting 18 wrong (there’s a lot of 7-letter Republics that come close to fitting the wordplay). Nothing too too obscure for this puzzle, but … Read more “Times 23992 – beating the Plantagenets at the rat-race”
Times 23980 – I should have known
Solving time : After 35 minutes and with an embarrassingly small amount filled out, I resorted to the aids, crawled home(I hope) in 49 minutes, one guess and a few peeks at Bradfords. There’ll probably … Read more “Times 23980 – I should have known”
Mephisto 2499 – Paul McKenna
Paul McKenna’s puzzles are falling into a pattern – plenty of starter words to get things going, and just when you think you’re going to race through the grid, there are some really obscure tough … Read more “Mephisto 2499 – Paul McKenna”
Times 23968 – together we can take over the world
Solving time : 22 minutes. A tale of two halves, the bottom half took me very little time, and I was left with a mostly empty top half. Some guesswork here that I had to … Read more “Times 23968 – together we can take over the world”
Times 23956 – pick your poison
Solving time : 15 minutes The setter seems to have damage on the mind – you can kill yourself with 4D, face madame 11A, or just after a 5D get 19A until a 16D. 1A … Read more “Times 23956 – pick your poison”
Mephisto 2495 – Tim Moorey
I usually find that Tim Moorey pulls out obscure biological terminology, but this one just has a random assortment of obscure words. The right half was considerably easier than the left half, and there are … Read more “Mephisto 2495 – Tim Moorey”