Category: Mephisto

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”

After about half an hour, with only a third of the grid filled in, I realized I’d have to bring  in Chambers fairly early on.   There is some tricky stuff here, and some obscure words … Read more “Mephisto 3124 – One for the books”

A step up in difficulty this week, it took me two sessions to put everything together.  The pun in the top row was helpful (especially so since one of the words is not in Chambers), … Read more “Mephisto 3123 – Paul McKenna”

I found this one rather difficult, and needed considerable help from Chambers after filling in about 80% of the entries using only what I know.   Some of the literals were a little tricky, although I … Read more “Mephisto 3122 – And not just any island….”

If you do the Mephisto and the Listener, you gor a double dose of Don Manley last weekend – I found the Listener enjoyable as well (and if you are looking to try out the … Read more “Mephisto 3121 – Don Manley”