Category: Mephisto

Happy New Year to all. Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then … Read more “Mephisto 3044 – Tim Moorey. Not a creature was stirring….”

Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then verify in the dictionary. 2D … Read more “Mephisto 3042 by Paul McKenna – Multilingual Edition”

I seem to recall getting through this pretty easily last Sunday with a few head-scratching moments which I hope I can work out over the next few minutes, though there is one that completely eludes … Read more “Mephisto 3041 – Tim Moorey”

Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then verify in the dictionary. 1A … Read more “Mephisto 3040 by Don Manley”

Odd-numbered Mephisto time! The grid has 90-degree symmetry with four clues running all the way across the 12×12 grid to stop it from separating into four mini-puzzles. All good fin. I however made a real … Read more “Mephisto 3039 – Paul McKenna”

Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then verify in the dictionary. 9A … Read more “Mephisto 3038 – Tim Moorey. Inland from Oban again.”

I was a long way away from the wordplay in many clues, and so found this one very difficult. First definitions are underlined in the clues. Somehow an incomplete blog got posted intitially, I have … Read more “Mephisto 3037 – Don Manley”

Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then verify in the dictionary. 19A … Read more “Mephisto 3036 Paul McKenna”

Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is that you use the precise wordplay to derive an answer that you then verify in the dictionary. 1A … Read more “Mephisto 3034 – Don Manley”

I found the bottom half of this one went in very quickly, but had a bit more fiddling around to do in the top half. I am a little lost on one piece of wordplay, … Read more “Mephisto 3033 – Paul McKenna”