Category: Mephisto

Another unusual grid with only 15 across clues but 21 downs – it’s almost four little puzzles bolted together. Not an indirect anagram in sight in a pleasant middle of the road offering. Across 1 … Read more “Mephisto 2850 by Don Manley”

Despite a generous grid (look at those fully-checked three letter lights and all the six-letter lights with only one unchecked letter), I made a real mess of this one and it took a lot of … Read more “Mephisto 2849 – Paul McKenna”

A slightly strange grid with 20 across clues and only 16 down and hence quite a number of 4 letter words. This puzzle appeared on 29th March which was Ximenes’ birthday and I have two … Read more “Mephisto 2848 by Tim Moorey – Happy Birthday Macnutt”

Found this one a bit trickier than the last few, particularly the top right hand corner which was the last one to fall. In the end everything makes perfect sense with tricky and clear wordplay. … Read more “Mephisto 2847 – Don Manley”

I’ve solved it but I’m too tired to write a coherent blog and I think one or two of you might notice the difference. I’ll get this up tomorrow sometime. And now it is tomorow … Read more “Mephisto 2845 – Tim Moorey”

By far the easiest Mephisto I’ve done for quite some time – mostly simple constructions with signposted definitions. Perhaps Don was intent upon helping our friends in Iceland who celebrated Beer Day on 1st March … Read more “Mephisto 2844 by Don Manley – Minn er a hálfpottur”

Once upon a time I complained that the Mephisto introduced me to utterly-disgusting sounding foods (often with similarly unappealing names) on a weekly basis. This week we are introduced to cattle diarrhoea. Wheeee! At least … Read more “Mephisto 2843 – Paul McKenna”

Enjoyable middle of the road puzzle Across 1 SCHOOLE – SCHOOL-(barg)E; Waggledagger for shoal; 7 FEHM – FE(H)M; Henry=H (physics); FEM=femme=homosexual partner; medieval German court; 10 LOOED – LOO-(th)E-D; to forfeited in game of loo; … Read more “Mephisto 2842 by Tim Moorey”

I made heavy weather of the left hand side of this mostly because of two references that I had to look up – one I think at the end I had heard of (Marie Stopes), … Read more “Mephisto 2841 – Don Manley”

There’s a rather old fashioned feel to this puzzle with references to Frank Buchman, bits of Latin, women waiting for a given time to propose and a defunct TV detective series amongst other features. Nothing … Read more “Mephisto 2840 by Paul McKenna – quid sit bisextilis babe?”