====== Amalgam ======

===== Recruitment =====

While working cryptic crosswords in a collection, I was continually struck by the ingeniousness of the clues in 
puzzles by Rebecca Kornbluh ([[Arachne]]) and Henri Picciotto ([[Hot]]).  I googled those names and found [[Hot|Hot's]] 
[[http://www.picciotto.org/hot/|puzzle page]].  I wrote him a fan e-mail (fanny-mail?) wherein I asked for advice 
for a novice cryptic constructor.  His reply: [[:Join|Join NPL!]]

//First Issue//: May 2003

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===== Nom =====

The path to "Amalgam" is rather tortuous.....  My initials are EGB.  I 
am a professional musician.  In music, the notes E-G-B spell an e-minor 
triad.  In German (a language I studied), e minor would be "e-moll," for 
which "a mal" is an approximate homophone.  Add "gam," short for "games" 
(a nod to NPL), and combine the elements to get "amalgam," one of whose 
definitions in 10C is "a mixture of different elements."  (Which I guess 
describes me as well.)

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