Category: Mephisto

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”

Good middle of the road puzzle with one quirk – the use of the abbreviation UPS to mean United Parcel Service in the same way that RR stands for Rolls Royce. Both abbreviations are in … Read more “Mephisto 2702 by Paul McKenna – UP Who?”

My printer made a meal of this one, I think in a desperate plea to tell me to buy a new ink cartridge (which I did the next day) there’s a few blank lines. Fortunately … Read more “Mephisto 2701 – Tim Moorey”

What do AZED 2065, Mephisto 2698 and this puzzle have in common? They all contain that well known family of beetles “dermestidae” as an answer. As the odds of this happening by chance are infinitely … Read more “Mephisto 2700 by Don Manley – Beetle Mania”

This was one of the most complicated Mephistos for me in recent history. There’s some very odd language in here, and a number of wordplay elements that are either new to me or I don’t … Read more “Mephisto 2699 – Paul McKenna”