Ever since I signed myself up as a Mephisto blogger in 2020, I have completed Mephisto every week. Once in a while, I may have been off by a letter or two, but the grid has always been filled. The main reason I can do this is that I always have a few checking letters to get a foothold.
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Mephisto 3323 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans.
Mephisto 3322 – Tilting at windmills?
I didn’t find this one particularly difficult, but since I was rather tired I quit for the evening with a couple unsolved. I finished them off in the morning.
Mephisto 3321 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans. I enjoyed this one – Tim Moorey always offers up precise and inventive wordplay and there is a lot of it to enjoy here. A reminder that in Mephisto puzzles, definitions can … Read more “Mephisto 3321 – Tim Moorey”
Mephisto 3320 – Buck Mulligan’s Ninja Turtle
I started off as I usually start off in Mephisto, despairing of getting a single answer, only to be reviewing a completed grid in less than 90 minutes. Mephisto is like that.
Mephisto 3319 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans. Robert Teuton leads us on a merry romp here, I enjoyed a number of clues and I think there are some traps here for the biffers. I hope I didn’t fall into … Read more “Mephisto 3319 – Robert Teuton”
Mephisto 3318 – As a matter of fact, I can!
I don’t usually find the Paul McKenna puzzles too difficult, and I got through this one in about 90 minutes.
Mephisto 3317 – Tim Moorey
Greetings, barred-grid fans. I was back to my usual Saturday night routine, watching the late horror movie when the Mephisto came out and I solved it over a couple of beers and the 1973 version … Read more “Mephisto 3317 – Tim Moorey”
Mephisto 3316 – No, no, no, no; no biffing at all!
This one was a bit of a step-up from the easier Mephistos we’ve been seeing lately – John Grimshaw has provided a tougher challenge, with a number of cleverly-set traps for the unwary solver. I noted them on my copy as I solved, meaning that I wasn’t fooled.
Mephisto 3315 – Robert Teuton
Greetings, barred-grid fans. This one raised a lot of smiles. The wordplay was challenging, the vocabulary obscure and the surfaces of many of the clues were outstanding. This has been a good week for puzzles! … Read more “Mephisto 3315 – Robert Teuton”