Category: Mephisto

You wont get many easier Mephisto than this one. A good beginner’s puzzle. Across 1 VISAGIST – VISA-GIST; 6 HEST – HE(I)ST; old word for command=HEST; 10 EATERY – E(AT)ERY; Admin Trainee=AT; 13 PIPELIGHT – … Read more “Mephisto 2712 by Don Manley”

Ooops, just realized it’s my turn to post it and I haven’t even solved it yet, busy week. This should appear late Sunday or Monday. Feel free to discuss, and sorry Paul! Thanks for your … Read more “Mephisto 2711 – Paul McKenna – placeholder”

Good Mephisto of average difficulty. I was intrigued by trigamist, believing wrongly that bigamist applied to any number of multiple marriages – personally I find one wife quite enough to cope with! Also by the … Read more “Mephisto 2710 by Tim Moorey – Meet Alfie at the Ritz”

I was out of town last weekend, so didn’t have my usual dictionary access, and mostly did this in doodle time between presentations (or if I was tuned out, during presentations). I found this one … Read more “Mephisto 2709 – Don Manley”

An interesting puzzle of perhaps slightly higher than average level of difficulty. Paul McKenna is to be congratulated for including a scientific concept that raised the level of science based content above the usual “Newton” … Read more “Mephisto 2708 by Paul McKenna – ET meets Norman Tebbit”

I hope you were all close by a dictionary when you started this. I was a long way from home and didn’t have my Chambers or Bradfords and did not get far at all on … Read more “Mephisto 2707 – Tim Moorey”

Nothing too dificult here with the first two across clues quite easy – which gives the solver a real kickstart. Across 1 CRAVAT – C(RAV)AT; teacher=RAV; as worn by upper class cads like Edward V111; … Read more “Mephisto 2706 by Don Manley – Rioters in Drag and a Crosseyed Lion”

I found this one tricky to get going on – my usual coffee-shop start only got me a half a dozen or so entries. I came back to it on Tuesday afternoon and knocked out … Read more “Mephisto 2705 – Paul McKenna”

On the daily blog I suggested that those who hadn’t tried one should give this Mephisto a try. If they did they found a beginners puzzle that gave them a straightforward start. I would expect … Read more “Mephisto 2704 by Tim Moorey – A Doddle”

It was a strange day on Sunday – I took this and the Azed “Double Trouble” puzzle for coffee in the “morning” and found myself frustrated with one of them very quickly. It wasn’t this … Read more “Mephisto 2703 – Don Manley”