Category: Mephisto

Another in a growing line of good quality puzzles of average difficulty. If one could devise a level of difficulty index its standard deviation over recent weeks would be very small. There are no queries, … Read more “Mephisto 2642 by Paul McKenna”

Took me a while to make inroads on this one, had most of the right hand side filled, but only a few scattered answers on the left. 1 and 35 across fell at almost the … Read more “Mephisto 2641 – Tim Moorey”

Another very enjoyable, standard puzzle of average difficulty. No particular talking points. I have a minor query at 17A EGRET whilst at 21A I discovered yet another way to mishit a golf ball – not … Read more “Mephisto 2640 by Mike Laws”

I’ve already printed out this week’s Mephisto and noticed there’s a little bit of a change – there appears to be an email for entries. I assume they’ll take a scanned grid, since they’ve taken … Read more “Mephisto 2639 – Paul McKenna”

Another excellent puzzle that would have been harder if 1A SUPPRESSING hadn’t been rather easy. That opened up the top half making the whole thing no more than of average difficulty. It is distinguished by … Read more “Mephisto 2638 by Tim Moorey”

I don’t know if this one was as hard as I made it out to be, but I wasn’t helped by confidently writing the utterly wrong HORSED as an answer for 6 down and then … Read more “Mephisto 2637: Mike Laws”

A fun puzzle that manages to get Buzz Aldrin, Marilyn Munroe and Calvin Klein tittupping together, so to speak, with a Pearly and a bottle of port. It’s not often one gets to write sentences … Read more “Mephisto 2636 by Paul McKenna”

Not sure if there’s some Mephisto funny business going on, but 2633 was a Tim Moorey puzzle, so either Mike Laws is taking a break or something is out of whack. I found this one … Read more “Mephisto 2635 – Tim Moorey?”

The second puzzle in a row to be on the hard side of average without being fiendish. I thoroughly enjoyed wrestling with it. Oddly I was off to a good start with the first three … Read more “Mephisto 2634 by Paul McKenna”

Well the difficulty appears to have been ramped up a bit here, I found this one a real struggle to get going on, but once a few key answers fell into place ((13 and 16 … Read more “Mephisto 2633 – Tim Moorey”