Category: Mephisto

Greetings barred-grid fans

Here we have a puzzle from the milder end of the Mephisto spectrum.    The average cryptic solver might not do so well, but hardened Mephisto enthusiasts will not have much difficulty. 

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

The puzzle itself was of moderate difficulty, and I solved it over a couple of days.    Somehow, the answers kept coming to me, and I was able to parse them all without calling for assistance. 

Greetings barred-grid fans

There was nothing very difficult for hardened Mephisto solvers here, although I was a bit slow on finishing owing to other activities.   

Greetings barred-grid fans, and apologies for the late post.

I realized today that due to the press of business in one of my unpaid jobs, I had not finished this puzzle, so I had to sit down at 7 to polish it off and do the blog.   It was not very difficult, but some of the wordplay relies on quite obscure meanings of words you probably know in another context.

Greetings barred-grid fans. I had no internet connection to my laptop on Saturday, so this is a late blog and a few of the trickier clues have already been discussed in the comments. I found … Read more “Mephisto 3389 – John Grimshaw”

I was surprised to find this puzzle relatively approachable, as Robert Teuton has given me considerable trouble in the past.    But I was able to solve a fair number of clues without cracking Chambers.