Category: Mephisto

Most of this puzzle fell into place, but it would have helped if I could have worked out the wordplay for 1ac, as I originally had CANNABIS in and that held up my progress on … Read more “Mephisto 2499-Mike Laws”

Sorry, late again. Solving time: 19:05 without C, one mistake – 22D, where I didn’t understand the wordplay and the floor is open. After really struggling with my last blogged Mephisto, this was much easier … Read more “Mephisto 2448 – Chris Feetenby”

Solving time: about 2 hours with C used from the start This will teach me to leave Mephistos unstarted on the Sunday! It turned out to be very tough, with lots of stuff that was … Read more “Mephisto 2446”

Did this a week ago, but have only now gotten round to writing the blog – don’t remember there being anything contentious or overly difficult in this puzzle, but as I write this, I may … Read more “Mephisto 2,445 – Chris Feetenby”

Not terribly difficult by Mephisto standards, I solved most of this within 40 minutes without resorting to dictionaries. After Chambers was called on, the rest fell into place, although the wordplay has me beat on … Read more “Mephisto 2443 – Mike Laws – who he?”

(don’t comment on this – it’s just a pointer that will be deleted in a day or two).

I read somewhere that the most doodled word in the English language is HELP. My print-out of this puzzle has several masterpeices, all centred around that word! Since coming back from my holidays, I have … Read more “Mephisto 2,441 – Tim Moorey/ Help!!”

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”