Author: vinyl1

Last week’s Mephisto was not terribly tricky, and I finished before going to bed on a Saturday night.    This is the grid where you can really help your solve by getting the long ones around the edges quickly. 

While the puzzle was enjoyable, some of the parsing are a bit obscure – perhaps a commenter will step forward with a clarification or addition.

I didn’t find this too bad, but made very slow progress for a while.   I plodded on from ten until midnight, finishing a few bits here and there.  

I didn’t have much difficulty with this one, although the pun was even more excruciating than usual.     There are a few obscure literals that you have to check in Chambers, but this is scarcely a novelty in Mephisto.

While for the previous Mephisto I barely needed to touch Chambers, this John Grimshaw production will require considerable checking for most solvers.  I had to make a number of guesses, most of which turned out to be correct.