Category: Mephisto

I’m standing in for Peter, who is on holiday. This is yet another in a growing line of easier puzzles. There is really very little to say about it except I was grateful that the … Read more “Mephisto 2566 by Mike Laws”

I’m pleased to say that this puzzle was harder than its predecessor. Having said that, it wasn’t particularly difficult either (and neither is today’s). Three of the long 12 letter lights were very straightforward. 27A … Read more “Mephisto 2565 by Paul McKenna”

Easy Peasy Again I thought that Mephisto 2560 was easy but this was even simpler. The across clues in particular are mostly so obvious that the answers to many of the down clues are in … Read more “Mephisto 2564 Tim Moorey”

I usually find Mike Laws the most difficult of the Mephisto setting team, but there were not all that many unusual words, and some of the odder ones had some easy wordplay and generous checking … Read more “Mephisto 2563 – Mike Laws”

Not too difficult – finished in 43:25, with Chambers used for about the last dozen answers, which I think were – 1A, 21, 10, 14, 6, 29, 23, 22, 27, 24, 32 (correcting the last … Read more “Mephisto 2562 – Paul McKenna”

Back to average standard after last week’s puzzle. Old hands will have had an advantage because we know all the common abbreviations such as ‘ll=will – and there seemed to be a lot of them … Read more “Mephisto 2561 by Tim Moorey”

A short while ago we had a brief discussion about whether Mephisto is being dumbed down. If we had seen this puzzle at that time we might have reached a different conclusion. This is indeed … Read more “Mephisto 2560 Mike Laws”

Funny coincidence that it’s my turn to blog this week, since Paul McKenna sent me this crossword a few months ago to test solve. I don’t have the original email but I have the “before” … Read more “Mephisto 2559 – Paul McKenna”

The first thing I noticed about this puzzle is the 13×11 grid rather than the 12×12 we are used to. During the week we learned that there are new grids for the Times daily so … Read more “Mephisto 2557 by Tim Moorey”

A couple of weeks ago an anonymous blogger asked if we thought Mephisto was being dumbed down. We said we didn’t think so but to try to get a feel for the situation I timed … Read more “Mephisto 2556 Paul McKenna”