Category: Mephisto

Our setter has decided to emulate Hippocrates and dabble in human biology with three forays into anatomical terminology. Unless you’re very experienced you are unlikely to solve a Mephisto without using Chambers. The idea is … Read more “Mephisto 3028 Don Manley with help from Henry Gray”

Those of you who do not do Mephisto puzzles regularly may get tripped up by one of the differences between the daily puzzles and the specialist puzzles which is not announced. When there is a … Read more “Mephisto 3027 – 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. 4A … Read more “Mephisto 3026 by Tim Moorey with appearances by George and Jim”

I found this one to be a puzzle of two halves – the top half filled in extrmely quickly, with some head-scratching over the bottom half. Don Manley has, as usual, treated us to a … Read more “Mephisto 3025 – 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. 4D … Read more “Mephisto 3024 – by Paul McKenna. Criticize Overall.”

Apologies for the late post, I thought that I put up a placeholder yesterday. I got stuck at a party last night and had plans to play golf early this morning so didn’t get a … Read more “Mephisto 3023 – Tim Moorey”

A trip down memory lane for me caused by 30A. The clue has two possible answers, a simple obvious one and a more difficult one. I wrote in the simple one and then had to … Read more “Mephisto 3022 – Don Manley. Ximenes Remembered.”

The Mephisto is usually a 12×12 grid, but the setters have some leeway with size, as long as the number of cells and number of clues fit within a publishable space. This time we have … Read more “Mephisto 3021 – Paul McKenna”

Last time I wrote one of these blogs George and I were subjected to a rant about how smug and unhelpful we were by an anonymous contributor who was unable to use Chambers to look … Read more “Mephisto 3020 – Tim Moorey and a very helpful non-smug blogger”

I was rather taken with the grid for this puzzle, with the networks of four letters words. For those of you checking in for the first time, or relatively new to the Mephisto, welcome to … Read more “Mephisto 3019 – Don Manley”