Category: Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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.

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”

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.

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”

I don’t usually find the Paul McKenna puzzles too difficult, and I got through this one in about 90 minutes. 

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”

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.

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”

I didn’t have much difficulty solving this one, and I finished in my Saturday night session – although I nearly hit Sunday.    Getting the answers was only part of it, though, as I had to do a bit of research in order to be able to blog the wordplay.