I mentioned yesterday that there should be an abbreviation hint for ATF (21A: Booze, butts and bullets bureau) in Barry Silk's "Score" puzzle. It turned out that his original clue is "Justice Dept. agency".
Here are some more of his originals:
36A: California Congresswoman Lofgren: ZOE. Unknown to me. See this picture. The lady on ZOE Lofgren's left is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Arnold's tie has strange combination of colors.
37A: Took sides?: ATE. Great clue.
60A: Philadelphia had the first one in the United States: ZOO. Nice trivia.
44A: Jimmy Rollins in 2007: MVP. Barry is a Philly fan.
69A: Yamaha competitor: SONY. See? I was right in saying that "Vaio maker" is not his original clue.
1D: Dizzy Gillespie's jazz: BEBOP. Clear Ayes mentioned that "Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were early bebop musicians" yesterday.
10D: B sharp equivalents: C-FLATS. Any comment, Barry G, KittyB and all your music experts? Our editor changed the clue to "Some major scales".
42D: NASA acceleration unit: ONE G. Yesterday's clues is "NASA unit".
Barry has submitted over 20 puzzles to TMS, but has not heard from our editor since Nov 1 when Tribune announced the bankruptcy. He is not optimistic that his puzzles will be published. Everything seems so uncertain with Tribune right now.
He has decided to make one of the puzzles available to readers of this blog. It has a great sports theme. If you want to solve the puzzle, please email me at crosswordc@gmail.com. And don't throw away the puzzle once you are done. I will blog about it next Tuesday or Wednesday and I want to hear your views about his grid.
I sure hope we will see more Barry Silk puzzle in the near future. What a classy guy he is.
C.C.
Here are some more of his originals:
36A: California Congresswoman Lofgren: ZOE. Unknown to me. See this picture. The lady on ZOE Lofgren's left is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Arnold's tie has strange combination of colors.
37A: Took sides?: ATE. Great clue.
60A: Philadelphia had the first one in the United States: ZOO. Nice trivia.
44A: Jimmy Rollins in 2007: MVP. Barry is a Philly fan.
69A: Yamaha competitor: SONY. See? I was right in saying that "Vaio maker" is not his original clue.
1D: Dizzy Gillespie's jazz: BEBOP. Clear Ayes mentioned that "Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were early bebop musicians" yesterday.
10D: B sharp equivalents: C-FLATS. Any comment, Barry G, KittyB and all your music experts? Our editor changed the clue to "Some major scales".
42D: NASA acceleration unit: ONE G. Yesterday's clues is "NASA unit".
Barry has submitted over 20 puzzles to TMS, but has not heard from our editor since Nov 1 when Tribune announced the bankruptcy. He is not optimistic that his puzzles will be published. Everything seems so uncertain with Tribune right now.
He has decided to make one of the puzzles available to readers of this blog. It has a great sports theme. If you want to solve the puzzle, please email me at crosswordc@gmail.com. And don't throw away the puzzle once you are done. I will blog about it next Tuesday or Wednesday and I want to hear your views about his grid.
I sure hope we will see more Barry Silk puzzle in the near future. What a classy guy he is.
C.C.
