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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

J.K. Rowling

-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 2, 2007 2:44 PM
>To: Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: TRP on the front page ... (spoliers alert!)
>
>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
>> 
>> 
>> 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?)
>> 
>> ----- 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
>> 
>> 
>> Foax:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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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