Category: Mephisto

Last weekend, my efforts at solving were really poor. I didn’t complete the Times, took ages over the Indie, and let’s not even go there with Inquisitor, which I have to blog later this week. … Read more “Mephisto 2423/Tim Moorey – Solved like an amateur!!”

Solving time: 50 mins without Chambers, followed by one look-up (7D). Maybe I wasn’t in quite the right mood, but this seemed like one of those times when the setter’s odyssey through the further reaches … Read more “Mephisto 2422 – fairly tough”

Good mix of clues, clean surfaces, slightly easier than I might have expected, what more can I say? Solving time – 20-25 minutes ACROSS 5 A-BR(E)ACT – the “modified” in the clue had me of … Read more “Mephisto 2421 – Chris Feetenby”

Solving time: 21:06 As I have come to expect from Chris Feetenby’s Mephisto puzzles, I was able to complete this puzzle without resorting to Chambers. Any unfamiliar words were able to be worked out from friendly … Read more “Mephisto 2418/Chris Feetenby – Enough Standard Clues to Stop You Lamping!”

Solving time: about 2 hours in two sessions Another puzzle that suffered the Christmas 2006 web-site curse – the preamble was missing until added a day or two later. 18A was INGREDIENTS, and the six … Read more “Mephisto 2417 – Christmas Special”

As has been stated before, Mephisto is an excellent bridge between the more difficult daily puzzles and the barred weekend puzzles such as the Listener. The clues in this one were not particularly difficult, and … Read more “Mephisto 2418/Mike Laws”

Solving time – 25 mins This is my first post in this blog, and I think I struck it lucky. This was a fairly straightforwardMephisto for which I had a slight advantage – a couple … Read more “Mephisto 2414/Tim Moorey – My first Mephisto in a while”

Posting a bit early, but I don’t think anyone’s sad enough to pinch these answers and then go to a PO with an 11 p.m. collection … We’re back round to Chris Feetenby again. I … Read more “Mephisto 2412, weekend round-up”

Solving time: call it 80 minutes Got myself in a real mess with this with a careless entry of ATTAP at 2D, followed by consequent agony trying to find ST?KO at 11 and UP?? at … Read more “Mephisto 2411 – Tim Moorey”

Solving time 41:20 – Chambers used after about 10 minutes. After implying last week that Mephisto was easier than Azed, it was probably inevitable that this week’s puzzle would take over twice as long as … Read more “Mephisto 2410 – Mike Laws, weekend round-up”