Author: vinyl1

The puzzle itself was of moderate difficulty, and I solved it over a couple of days.    Somehow, the answers kept coming to me, and I was able to parse them all without calling for assistance. 

There was nothing very difficult for hardened Mephisto solvers here, although I was a bit slow on finishing owing to other activities.   

I realized today that due to the press of business in one of my unpaid jobs, I had not finished this puzzle, so I had to sit down at 7 to polish it off and do the blog.   It was not very difficult, but some of the wordplay relies on quite obscure meanings of words you probably know in another context.

I was surprised to find this puzzle relatively approachable, as Robert Teuton has given me considerable trouble in the past.    But I was able to solve a fair number of clues without cracking Chambers.

I sometimes have trouble with Grimshaw puzzles, but this one was not particularly difficult.    There are definitely a few easy ones to get you started, and for once one across was a write-in.