Category: Mephisto

This was not too tricky, and I finished all but a few in about an hour.   I was about to go to bed and mop up in the morning, but I was texting with Jeremy … Read more “Mephisto 3174 – Let’s keep those birds rare!”

Greetings barred-grid fans This is a classic Tim Moorey puzzle, a few cultural references, crafty wordplay and some fun surfaces. I did find this a little more difficult than the previous few weeks, not helping … Read more “Mephisto 3173 – Tim Moorey”

I didn’t find this terribly difficult, and finished most of it before going to bed.   Don Manley’s cluing is very precise, and if you just trust the cryptics completely you will get the answers.   The … Read more “Mephisto 3172 – Tall tales? Not here!”

Greetingd barred-grid fans. Paul McKenna sometimes experiments with grids other than 12×12, and this is an example of an 11×13 grid.  With there being one long vertical entry, the grid design breaks it up almost … Read more “Mephisto 3171 – Paul McKenna”

Although I made fairly good progress at first, there was some tough stuff here.   After two hours I had all but one, and decided to go to bed.   In the morning, the phrase ‘ledger beam’ … Read more “Mephisto 3170 – The evangelical bloc!”

Greetings barred-grid fans, Don Manley has treated us to another grid of obscure words clued with immaculate wordplay.  I cannot say much else other than that this would be an excellent puzzle for setters who … Read more “Mephisto 3169 – Don Manley”

I found this one very tricky.   It was easy enough to get started, and to find Paul’s usual outrageous pun, but actually chasing down the last few was pretty tough.   Once found, they were not … Read more “Mephisto 3168 – Neil Young plays a Gibson, but Eric Clapton….”

Greetings barred-grid fans. I did pretty well with this one – Tim Moorey often puts in a few pop culture or sports references and I think I was familar with most of them this time … Read more “Mephisto 3167 – Tim Moorey”

You can’t really say that a Mephisto is easy, or that the answers should be obvious, but of the three setters I find that it is the puzzles of Don Manley where many answers do … Read more “Mephisto 3166 – Oh, what a feeling!”

Greetings barred-grid fans. This is a tricky puzzle for wordplay, though there are not that many unusual entries in the grid. I filed out the bottom half first and worked my way up to the … Read more “Mephisto 3165 – Paul McKenna”