Category: Mephisto

Generally speaking, this was not that difficult a Mephisto.   Most of the answers are not obscure, allowing a certain amount of biffing once you get a few crossing letters. But there is a bit of … Read more “Mephisto 3134 – Citizen Furball”

Oh dear, I appear to have been migrated to a new posting system, which removes the colours and the spacing of the automated blog poster that I have been using. I hope it is still … Read more “Mephisto 3133: Don Manley”

I thought parts of this were pretty chewy, with some rather fancy cryptics.   One or two still elude me, but I’m sure my fellow Mephisto solvers will have the explanation.   It is very helpful it … Read more “Mephisto 3132 – The crystal ball is dark”

I didn’t get to this until after I blogged Thursday’s daily puzzle, and it seems it was my week as there was quite a bit of chemistry spread between these two!  My particular expertise in … Read more “Mephisto 3131 – Tim Moorey”

When I generated the blog skeleton and pasted it into Live Journal, I had a moment of panic – I don’t remember any of these answers!   Is this the right puzzle?   Yes, it is, and … Read more “Mephisto 3130 – India, not Africa!”

Fun puzzle, this one – you can trust the wordplay to get the large number of unusual terms in the grid. Another grid with 90-degree symmetry, it seems we are getting more of these lately. … Read more “Mephisto 3129 – Paul McKenna”

This one was pretty easy for the most part, although teasing out the last few was a little tricky.    Every crazy-seeming word derived from the cryptics turned out to be in Chambers, and I made … Read more “Mephisto 3128 – Do you remember July 24, 1983?”

Greetings all – this was a rather fun puzzle from Don Manley, and I can only see a little bit of scribble in my grid where I had an original incorrect answer at 5 down … Read more “Mephisto 3127 – Don Manley”

I was able to do most of this without using Chambers, but in the end I came up against a few words I didn’t know.   I was able to derive most of these from the … Read more “Mephisto 3126 – Not so harcane….”

It’s your weekly dose of barred-grid, this time with Tim Moorey and a puzzle that I found pretty straightforward – usually Tim throws in a few cultural references that are not in my wheelhouse, but … Read more “Mephisto 3125 – Tim Moorey”