Category: Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans. This week Robert Teuton has given us a good puzzle for wordplay, lots of unusual-looking words with clearly-indicated wordplay elements, a good Sunday morning work out (I was back to my usual … Read more “Mephisto 3279 – Robert Teuton”

I did solve this puzzle, but I would be the first to admit I don’t quite get some of the trickier cryptics.    Careful research as turned up some of the parsings, but not all of them.  

Greetings barred-grid fans. I enjoyed this challenge, as to be expected from Tim Moorey some quirky but exact wordplay.  Completed over two short stints later in the day, I was not able to do my … Read more “Mephisto 3277 – Tim Moorey”

Last week’s Mephisto was not terribly tricky, and I finished before going to bed on a Saturday night.    This is the grid where you can really help your solve by getting the long ones around the edges quickly. 

Greetings, barred-grid fans! I don’t remember having too much difficulty with this puzzle, but there were plenty of smiles to be had, as I was familiar with a few of the odder entries, particularly the … Read more “Mephisto 3275 – Robert Teuton”

While the puzzle was enjoyable, some of the parsing are a bit obscure – perhaps a commenter will step forward with a clarification or addition.

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.