TRP on the front page ... (spoliers alert!)

[Richard Ryan]

Ok - so I've identified the bird as a Eurasian Jay
(doesn't look at all like our North American variety,
but that's part of the challenge I suppose):

So (3) is Jay or "J." + ? + ? 

I'm obviously getting way too absorbed in this.  There
was no reason to spend my Sunday learning that British
steam rollers were still in use in the 60s (part of
the M1 apparently was paved using steam rollers - who
knew?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamroller

--- Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Cute.
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> The clue "They all had books out this year" - hard
> to read but there at
> the top of the page - is not so helpful to us Yanks,
> since with the
> exception of OBA these writers appear to be Brits. 
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> Still, I was able to get all but one:
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> 1.  To pat + a barking creature = Pat Barker
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> 2.  Grey + ham + swift (the bird) = Graham Swift
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> 3.  ?
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> 4.  E + hen + banks (of a river)= Iain Banks
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> 5.  Dick (as in a detective) + France + S = Dick
> Francis
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> 6.  Tom  (male cat) + Ass + to pinch + N = Thomas
> Pynchon  
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> 3 has me stumped.  There's a bird that I can't
> identify; a Spanish
> cleric (Dom?), and then an antique steam roller
> moving forward (to
> roll? to flattern? to pave?)
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2007 5:22:40 AM
> Subject: TRP on the front page of Saturday Times
> book section
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> Foax:
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> A couple of pics (sorry, I don't have a scanner) of
> the front page of the Saturday Times Books section
> featuring some Simon Drew puzzles. The last caught
> my attention.
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> http://www.the-mice.co.uk/TRP-Times/TRP-Times1.jpg
> http://www.the-mice.co.uk/TRP-Times/TRP-Times2.jpg
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