Category: Mephisto

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”

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”