Category: Mephisto

This was a really classic Don Manley puzzle, with the wordplay from words you know yielding answers that you probably don’t know.    This, for me, is the chief pleasure in solving these things, although as … Read more “Mephisto 3154 – I would have said Jeff…”

Greetings barred-grid fans!  I thought this was a step up in difficulty from the last two weeks… probably going back to the last Paul McKenna puzzle. I worked pretty steadily around the grid, and I … Read more “Mephisto 3153 – Paul McKenna”

This one seemed only moderately difficult, but there was a bit of a sting in in tail.   The cryptics were pretty clear, but some of the literals made no sense – until I looked in … Read more “Mephisto 3152 – A George Martin Production!”

Greetings barred-grid fans. I did this one in a single setting, and didnt have to look that many up, though it was more wordplay I was checking into than answers, there are fewer obscure words … Read more “Mephisto 3151 – Don Manley”

I found this Mephisto quite difficult, and was stuck for a long while with only about 1/3 of it done.  I really needed to grind to get going again, and even then each answer had … Read more “Mephisto 3150 – Double your words, double your fun!”

Well we have often told you that you need Chambers to complete Mephisto (or at least to verify definitions), but in this case it is true four times over. There have been a few puzzles … Read more “Mephisto 3149 – Tim Moorey”

I didn’t find this terribly hard, and finished in one sitting on a Saturday night – yes, midnight in the UK is 7 PM in Connecticut.   I didn’t understand one of the answers, but fortunately … Read more “Mephisto 3148 – Take your shoes off, ladies!”

I think this was one of the most difficult Mephistos of the year, there are not a lot of familiar words, and many obscure uses of common terms through the grid. I spent quite a … Read more “Mephisto 3147 – Paul McKenna”

I didn’t get on that well in this one, as there were a few clues that gave me a lot of difficulty – and in fact, there are one or two I still can’t explain.  … Read more “Mephisto 3146 – He’s ready for take-off….”

I don’t have any scribbles or question marks on my grid, so this must have been on the easier side of Mephistos. I did have to look up a few in Chambers after figuring out … Read more “Mephisto 3145 – Don Manley”