Category: Mephisto

Rather an easy Mephisto, where I was only held back by not dropping wrong theories quickly enough.   Even the answers were not very startling, although I was a bit taken aback by chapess.   Anta and … Read more “Mephisto 3140 – Parlez-vous francais?”

Fun puzzle with a 90-degree symmetry grid and generous checking letters around. As usual, Don Manley has given precise wordplay for the more unusual words in the grid. Just in case I make any flubs … Read more “Mephisto 3139 – Don Manley”

Here we have another fine Mephisto from Paul McKenna, with the usual groaner across the top line.   This is the first time I ever used one of these atrocious puns to come up with an … Read more “Mephisto 3138 – What the bright dawn scatters”

Vinyl1 posted after last week’s puzzle that he had a few questions over this one. I didn’t fare too badly, though there was one abbreviation that I didn’t find in Chambers and had to look … Read more “Mephisto 3137 – Tim Moorey”

This Mephisto was pretty easy for a Don Manley, with a good number of the clues having a somewhat obvious answer.  I think I did about two-thirds of it without even opening Chambers.   The vocabulary … Read more “Mephisto 3136 – Old quarterback’s quandary?”

I remember doing this on Sunday afternoon on a pretty glorious day, but don’t remember that much about the solving process. Chalk that up to a round of golf the previous day where I took … Read more “Mephisto 3135 – Paul McKenna”

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”