====== Kea ======

===== Recruitment =====

It was at a Listener Crossword setters' dinner in Leeds, I think. During preprandial milling-about [[Arepo]] took me aside, 
made me test-solve one of his crosswords, and then showed me this grubby little organ full of cabalistic symbols and usages. 

//First Issue//: Aug 1993

===== Recruits =====

None.

===== Nom =====


I'm from New Zealand myself, so when I started setting Listener crosswords, I wanted something antipodean for my
pseudonym. Chambers' definition (until 1988) of KEA was "a New Zealand parrot which sometimes kills sheep". I thought
this was admirable, and appropriate, in the sense that I felt I was copying the efforts of the masters, but I hoped that my
puzzles might catch the unwary by surprise.


==== Combinoms ====

  * Keown: Kea/[[100down|100 Down]]
  * Luke: [[lunchboy|Lunch Boy]]/Kea
  * Xema: [[xemu|Xemu]]/Kea

===== Offices =====

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