Category: Mephisto

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

I have to admit, this wasn’t easy.   I spent all week, as time was available, adding an answer or two.     Even when I finished, there were many questions, and I had to do a fair amount of research to write the blog.

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

I solved this one more by instinct than by analyzing the clues; experienced solvers just get a feel for what the answers are going to be.   A half-remembered fragment of a Greek or Germanic root is often enough to point the mind in the right direction. 

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

This was not very difficult, although I had a hard time getting started, and had to open up operations in the southeast corner of the grid.    But as usually happens in Mephisto,  once you have a few crossing letters, more answers become obvious and you can expand around the grid.

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

I found this surprisingly easy for a Robert Teuton, but I was still left with a few to finish up the next day.  For one, there were a surprising number of answers that I had heard of, which is always helpful.

Greetings, barred-grid fans.

I thought this was rather mild for John Grimshaw, as there were a number of answers I actually knew.