Category: Mephisto

Have now solved this puzzle which I might have done before my holidays if it had been on the Times club site in time. Solving time: say 2 hours, with Chamber used for the last … Read more “At last the Mephisto 2438 show”

Solving time approx. 40 mins (without Chambers) I solved this at work last Monday actually, although I did check a couple of answers online (3dn, 12dn). Across 6 SI,ROC (“cor is” rev) – I didn’t … Read more “Mephisto 2437”

Solving time: about 45 mins, with C used for 2D and a daft blind spot on 21A. One or two hazy areas below where others may be able to improve on my understanding. Across 9 … Read more “Mephisto 2436 / Chris Feetenby”

Solving time: 2h Haven’t done one of these for a while – and I had to resort to Chambers fairly quickly. The usual smattering (flood?) of archaisms and Scots and a couple of murky wordplays. … Read more “Mephisto 2435/give me a breek”

Solving time – 33 minutes, without Chambers Mephisto puzzles by Mike Laws can be tricky, but this one was fairly straightforward. One or two points of detail mentioned below where you may be able to … Read more “Mephisto 2434 – Mike Laws”

Solving time: 27 mins without Chambers, but one mistake (20A) At least on the Times club site, this puzzle was spoiled by the truncation of four clues. Here they are in full, as the site … Read more “Mephisto 2433 – Chris Feetenby”

This was the toughest Mephisto that I have had to blog – I’m not sure why.  Sometimes I just seem to struggle for no apparent reason, and this was the case here.  70-80% of the … Read more “Mephisto 2432/Tim Moorey – just glad to get it finished!”

Maphisto 2431 – Mike Laws Solving time: say 75 mins Had a disjointed experience of this. Solved about half to two-thirds on paper when visiting relatives last Sunday – between playing football with one nephew … Read more “Mephisto 2431 – Mike Laws”

Solving time – about 32 minutes, with fairly extensive use of Chambers. One of the rules of crossword grid construction observed almost everywhere is “no duplicated entries”. This puzzle throws the rule in the bin … Read more “Mephisto 2429 / Tim Moorey – Carnifex!”

Solving time: 37:33 None too easy again this week.  No major problems, just a fair deal of devious wordplay to unravel.  An unusual Amount of “misleading” capitalization Too – no less than 6 counts, 3 … Read more “Mephisto 2426/Tim Moorey – A Capital Puzzle”