Salon 45
11 November, 2013
GAMES magazine is another indulgence of mine. This puzzle periodical, first appearing back in 1977, has given me untold inspiration and anguish, a bi/monthly that promised outre ideas, inventive formats, game-play history and talk of frontier software. Before the net, GAMES embodied the puzzle community.
I own about 120 of the 200 issues (and desperately seek to fill the gaps). The title is still around, though in shadow form, often reproducing old articles and puzzles.
This year, I tracked down three issues from the first year. And the earliest, Nov/Dec 1977, has a neat game we could well extend. If a logger comedian is Lumberjack Benny, and a typical governess is a Customary Poppins, then who are these people:
- Spectral Scientologist (7,6)
- Smoothie chemist (10,5)
- Clone actress (9,9)
- Nomadic Irish singer (7,8)
- Horn-blowing quickie (9,6)
- Undecided actress (7,6)
Blab your answers in the Comments. And set us your own examples, using byline and number. (And don’t forget to share the peaks and gullies of the week’s crossword landscape. Have a wordy week.)
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