Category: Mephisto

An excellent puzzle that I failed to finish in one sitting. After an hour I had nearly all the LHS and a smattering on the RHS. I took a break and when I returned finished … Read more “Mephisto 2604 by Paul McKenna – who’s the babbo?”

The first piece of difficulty came when I woke up last Sunday, went to download the Mephisto and the crossword club was down, denying me both the Sunday Times and the Mephisto. So I couldn’t … Read more “Mephisto 2603: Tim Moorey”

An interesting puzzle of average difficulty graced by no less than two famous scientists and a well known catalyst. I’m really starting to believe that setters of both these and the daily puzzles are exploring … Read more “Mephisto 2602 by Mike Laws”

Much of this puzzle was fairly easy by Mephisto standards – I had all but 7 A/D, 12, 15, 1D, 22, 29, 32 and 26 filled in after about 80 minutes. But this set defeated … Read more “Mephisto 2601 – Paul McKenna”

I wondered if puzzle number 2,600 would give rise to something a little out of the ordinary and sure enough four clues contain an unclued letter in the cryptic part of the clue but with … Read more “Mephisto 2,600 by Tim Moorey”

Well it looks like both the online and Paper Times had a pretty decent bungle. Printed this off and thought it was still last weeks when I saw “by Paul McKenna”. Looked at the clues, … Read more “Mephisto 2599: Not Paul McKenna, nor Pual McKenna but Mike Laws”

There’s not a lot to say about this puzzle. It’s of average difficulty with a straightforward, completely fair, set of clues. I solved top to bottom, left to right, in just under the hour. Across … Read more “Mephisto 2598 Paul McKenna”

This took me about two and a half hours – I made a meal of the top half, wanting Derby in 1A to be a race or hat, and not seeing P,((c)ORRECT) for ages, even … Read more “Mephisto 2597 – Tim Moorey”

I found this the easiest Mephisto for some time, the down clues in particular with all but 5D of 1d to 9D read and written straight in.The AZED on the same day was even easier. … Read more “Mephisto 2596 Mike Laws”

Well last weekend was a little bit of a Paul McKenna overload, with a new Auctor Listener puzzle, he also sent me an upcoming Mephisto to test-solve and this one. Head-spinning time. I found this … Read more “Mephisto 2592: Paul McKenna”