Category: Mephisto

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”

Solving time: 37:04 I found this a lot tougher than normal for a Chris Feetenby Mephisto.  After 23 minutes I noted that I had only entered 16 answers along with a few parts of wordplay … Read more “Mephisto 2424/Chris Feetenby – An excuse for an old (bad) gag”

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”