Category: Mephisto

I made good progress for a while, but then had trouble finishing.   I picked away at the more difficult answers for a couple of days, but in the end I was most thoroughly stuck.     Consulting … Read more “Mephisto 3164 – Donovan, my Ninja Turtle”

Greetings barred-grid fans. At risk of being smacked down like I was last time, I thought this was definitely on the gentler side of Mephisto puzzles, with the usual clear Don Manley wordplay for obscure … Read more “Mephisto 3163 – Don Manley”

This puzzle turned into a lengthy struggle that spanned the week, as I slowly reduced the stubborn areas.    While I did come up with a correct and complete solution, I still cannot parse some of … Read more “Mephisto 3162 – Paul’s right, it’s wrong!”

Greetings barred-grid fans. I’m writing from my deck looking down at a bumper crop of poorly-masked tourists, it being school holidays and Easter weekend. I will hopefully feel less bitter about my fellow Americans soon, … Read more “Mephisto 3161 – Tim Moorey”

Well, here’s one for Mephisto beginners – I’ve actually got a time, 48 minutes.   I mostly just filled in the obvious answers, glancing at Chambers every once in a while, until I had only a … Read more “Mephisto 3160 – The Hight Report”

Greetings barred-grid fans. I had quite a few question marks around my grid, usually meaning wordplay or definition I had to look up. I didn’t start this until fairly late in the week so I … Read more “Mephisto 3159 – Paul McKenna”

I found this one rather tough.   The grid is very unfriendly to the solver, as eight of the answers have an unchecked first letter, and there are two entries where more than half of the … Read more “Mephisto 3158 – The Earl of Rochester, for example”

Greetings barred-grid fans. This was a rather fun Mephisto with one term in particular that has always tickled me finding its way into the right hand side of the grid.  I first heard it as … Read more “Mephisto 3157 – Don Manley”

I found this one a bit on the tough side.   It’s not that there were no easy clues,  but they seemed to all be located on the right side of the grid.   This made for … Read more “Mephisto 3156 – Persistence? Determination? Resolve?”

Greetings barred-grid fans. I’m writing this up having just learned of the passing of Jim Biggin. Jim and I started blogging the daily puzzle the same week in 2007, and in May 2008 Jim started … Read more “Mephisto 3155 – Tim Moorey”