Category: Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans. Ready for some more deep dives into Mephisto? Tim Moorey presented a fun puzzle with some unlikely terms, fortunately the precise wordplay gives a way in to the weirdest entries.  Fewer pop … Read more “Mephisto 3273 – Tim Moorey”

I didn’t find this too bad, but made very slow progress for a while.   I plodded on from ten until midnight, finishing a few bits here and there.  

Greetings, barred-grid fans. I found this one tricky, and definitely a few notches up from the first few Robert Teuton puzzles.  If you trust the wordplay, most of the unusual terms are clear. In Mephisto … Read more “Mephisto 3271 – Robert Teuton”

I didn’t have much difficulty with this one, although the pun was even more excruciating than usual.     There are a few obscure literals that you have to check in Chambers, but this is scarcely a novelty in Mephisto.

Greetings, barred-grid fans. Last Sunday was a busy day for me and I didn’t get around to solving this until Friday late night.  Maybe it was solving Mephisto under different circumstances (wine and cheese instead … Read more “Mephisto 3269 – Tim Moorey”

While for the previous Mephisto I barely needed to touch Chambers, this John Grimshaw production will require considerable checking for most solvers.  I had to make a number of guesses, most of which turned out to be correct.

Greetings, barred-grid fans! This was a pleasant diversion on a wet and miserable Sunday morning for me.  Strangely enough, there were fewer unknown words in this grid than in the daily puzzle I blogged on … Read more “Mephisto 3267 – Robert Teuton”

I didn’t find this one that difficult, although I was a little slow getting started, and had to put off a the left side until the next day.     The pun didn’t help me much, and I ended up having to push through the left from the bottom to the top.

Greetings, barred-grid fans. I remember this being a pretty breezy solve, but I was not sure of some of the wordplay, hopefully a second visit to the clues will sort everything out. In Mephisto puzzles, … Read more “Mephisto 3265 – Tim Moorey”

This one was not too bad, although I gave up after an hour and went to bed.   I finished it off pretty quickly the next morning.