Category: Mephisto

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”

A puzzle on the easy side of average I would say. A great deal of it will be very familiar to experienced solvers who will barely have needed Chambers. Across 1 CLIO – C-(OIL reversed); … Read more “Mephisto 2632 by Mike Laws”

I found this on the easier side of Mephistos right until the very end, where I got stuck in the Texas corner for a while. Eventually figuring out the problem had to be TESTON (TES … Read more “Mephisto 2631 – Paul McKenna”

An essentially easy Mephisto with a smaller than usual quota of obscure words solved in 40 minutes with almost no need to reference Chambers. It is frustrating therefore to report that I have been unable … Read more “Mephisto 2630 by Tim Moorey”

OK, after the disaster of two weeks ago I’m pretty sure I have the right puzzle sitting in front of me. I found this one pretty straightforward for a Mephisto, though several of the clues … Read more “Mephisto 2629 – Mike Laws”