Category: Mephisto

I found the left hand side of this an absolute beast! I got kind of caught, being out of town for a while I was only doing the online puzzles and missed that it was … Read more “Mephisto 2555 – Tim Moorey”

A pretty easy Mephisto, taking me about 35 minutes, but with an added bit of fun – the COUNTDOWN answer to 1A is an introduction to the theme – all the numbers from ten down … Read more “Mephisto 2554 – Mike Laws”

I found this relatively easy. For the second week running I wrote 1A straight in and followed it immediately with 6A and 1D. With both 3D and 16A easy to solve the top half was … Read more “Mephisto 2553 Paul McKenna”

Overall, a slightly harder than usual puzzle that was always fair (if you turn a blind eye to the padding at 34A) and maintained interest. When writing the blog more than doing the puzzle I … Read more “Mephisto 2552 Tim Moorey”

I usually find Mike Laws to be the most difficult of the Mephisto setters, but the shape of this grid made it a bit easier. Mike set himself no small task with a 13×11 grid … Read more “Mephisto 2551 – Mike Laws”

I had to admit defeat on this one with two clues unsolved (2 and 21). Speak up if you have the right answers (and possibly the right answers for clues I got wrong elsewhere – … Read more “Mephisto 2550 – Paul McKenna”

This puzzle used a stunt which we’ve seen before – four different clues to the same answer. After periodic attempts to remember the last time, it’s emerged from some corner of my memory just in … Read more “Mephisto 2549 – Tim Moorey – repeated answers stunt repeated”

A relatively easy puzzle with a good number of clues that are no harder than appear every day in the ordinary cryptic. This is particularly true of the initial down clues where I solved the … Read more “Mephisto 2548 (28th June 2009)”

I thought this was going to be on the easy side for a Mephisto with almost two-thirds of the grid going in before having to open a dictionary. But then came a few really tricky … Read more “Mephisto 2547 – Paul McKenna”

Solving time: 58 minutes A quite tricky puzzle where Chambers was needed after something like half the time spent. For all but a couple of clues (2, 23), I managed to record the solving order: … Read more “Mephisto 2546 – Tim Moorey”