Category: Mephisto

I didn’t find this particularly hard, and I was able to use Paul’s pun  to help me finish.   Once again, the percentage of obscure words in the answers was not that high, although the cryptics were a little tougher.

Greetings barred-grid fans. Since I blog the odd-numbered Mephisto puzzles I rarely get first response on a special puzzle, but in this case I have the pleasure of writing up the 500th and final Tim … Read more “Mephisto 3329 – Take a bow Tim Moorey”

I did not find this too difficult, although I was too tired last Saturday to complete it in one sitting, and in fact the remainder got held over for quite a while.   However, I did manage to complete it before the next one came out.  

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

This one was not too difficult for me, although I didn’t finish in one sitting.    There are a couple of words in here that would be more appropriate for Larousse than Chambers, but they are in fact in Chambers – why, I couldn’t say. 

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

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.   

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”