Category: Mephisto

This is a very straightforward puzzle that barely required a Chambers for solving. Today The Times carries a tribute to Mike Laws. There are three of his old puzzles plus a special tribute puzzle composed … Read more “Mephisto 2648 by Paul McKenna”

I found this one hard to get started on, and the grid ended up filling from the bottom up, though I’m not sure why, on a second or third read through a lot more of … Read more “Mephisto 2647 – Tim Moorey”

After this puzzle was printed we learned the sad news that Mike Laws had died. Our thoughts are with his family at this painful time. I never met Mike but I have solved all of … Read more “Mephisto 2646 Mike Laws’ Swan Song”

I overestimated my ability to download and print on my recent trip and only just got the last two Mephistos yesterday. So feel free to discuss, and I’ll be back with a write up hopefully … Read more “Mephisto 2645 – Paul McKenna”

I found this a little on the difficult side and particularly the SW corner where I took a while to see how SAICS worked and to remember that ACRE was a port, something I verified … Read more “Mephisto 2644 by Tim Moorey”

I find Mike Laws the hardest of the Mephisto team, and this was one where I made a fast start, but a painfully slow finish. A lot of the holdup was in 26 across, which … Read more “Mephisto 2643 – Mike Laws”

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”