Category: Mephisto

This one was rather straightforward, and didn’t take long.   The pun is worse than usual, and wasn’t of any help in solving.

Greetings, barred-grid fans

…you might do well.   But I found this one rather chewy.   While there are a few easy clues to get you started, there is some difficult vocabulary and some tough parsing here.

Greetings barred-grid fans

This puzzle was surprisingly mild for a John Grimshaw, and was able to answer a number of the clues without consulting my Chambers.

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

As often happens, a Paul McKenna puzzle which is not particularly difficult but provided several hours of pleasure.    A relatively high percentage of the answer words are not obscure, which helps the solver get enough crossing letters to finish off the more difficult clues.

Greetings barred-grid fans

Robert Teuton has provided us with a middle level puzzle with a few clues requiring a bit of special knowledge, but nothing that is too hard to figure out. 

Greetings, barred-grid fans.