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====== Hot ====== [[http://www.picciotto.org/hot/|{{krewe:noms:its-hot.gif}}]] ===== Recruitment ===== Howard Bergerson's //Palindromes and Anagrams// ---> Hot //First Issue//: Dec 1985 ===== Recruits ===== [[Alice]], Amalgam, [[Banterweight]], [[Cat]], [[Dandr]], [[Daz]], [[Elfman]], [[Grams]], [[Iolanthe]], [[Kool]], [[Plaid]], [[thefoole|The Foole]], [[Tilegod]], [[Trazom]], [[wildknight|Wild (K)night]]. ===== Nom ===== I joined and recruited [[Grams]] (Greg Williams, who only stayed in the League for a few years) at the same time. Originally, I was planning on being "Rip" (end of my first name and beginning of my last name). We thought "Rip Grams" made a nice sounding combinom. However, in the end I didn't like the brutal and Anglo-Saxon sound of "Rip", and decided to connect the H of Henri with the last two letters of Picciotto in reverse order, to get Hot, which is more in keeping with my Mediterranean temperament. At my first con (a sweltering weekend in [[cons:1986:photos|Cambridge]]), I introduced myself by saying "I'm Hot" and dozens of Krewe responded "so are we!". My main combinom is Harth, with [[Arachne]]. [[Arachne]] suggested the combinom, which was inspired by a character in Ursula K. LeGuin's novel //The Left Hand of Darkness//. Harth, like the other inhabitants of Winter (a planet somewhere in the Milky Way), is sometimes male and sometimes female. His/her name includes letters from both Hot and [[Arachne]]. Our combi-city, of course, is Winter, MW. Another character in the same book is named Ai -- quite appropriate since our first co-solving effort was a wonderful puzzle of [[Ai]]'s at the Charlottesville con. At first, only [[Sibyl]] knew who Harth was. We revealed our identity at the [[cons:1989:photos|Cleveland con]], in a cryptic crossword-cryptogram competition (there's an adapted version of that puzzle [[puzzles:cryptic:conventional_wisdom|here]]). ==== Combinoms ==== * Harth: Hot/[[Arachne]] * Height: Hot/[[Banterweight]] * Honny: Hot/[[Uncanny]] * Hooker:Hot/[[Joker]] * Hot Ice:Hot/[[Alice]] * Hozom or Hot-to-Trazom:Hot/[[Trazom]] * Hopi (Hot/[[loquacious|Okapi]]) * Ho-Hum (Hot/[[Ucaoimhu]]) * Hot Tin Roof -- with [[Tinhorn]] ===== Offices ===== * 2nd Vice President (1989) * Cryptic crosswords coeditor (1995 - present) * Picture puzzle editor (1999 - 2002) * Coeditor of //National Puzzlers’ League Cryptic Crosswords// (2005)