Category: Mephisto

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”

Solving time 21:15 – Chambers used for last word (17A) As this is our first posting on Mephisto, here’s some brief information about the puzzle. Mephisto is a puzzle in the “advanced cryptic” tradition of … Read more “Mephisto 2409 – Chris Feetenby (+weekend round-up)”