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Who Landed the Lunker?

A Five-Way Tangle for the Patient Solver

Constructed by Mrs. Eunice Tarrant · Puzzle Editor since 1949

Pour yourself a second cup before you start in — this one took me three evenings at the kitchen table, and I test-solved it twice on Friday before sending it down to composing. Click each cell to cycle through your marks: a green check for YES, a red X for NO, blank for not-yet-decided. Each row gets exactly one check on the fly side and one on the weight side, and the same holds for each column. Mind that a clue or two work backward — they tell you who DIDN'T tie on a particular fly, which is just as good. Best of Sunday to you. — E.T.

The Field of Five · Lake Sandusky Pier-and-Fly Invitational, Fifth Annual

Our five rod-and-reel men, lined up at the municipal pier at sunrise this past cold gray Saturday: Mr. Hollenbeck of the Sandusky Plumbers' Local 235, Mr. Beauchamp who keeps the barbershop on Vermilion Avenue, Mr. Czerwinski who teaches seventh-grade arithmetic at St. Stanislaus, Mr. Pike at the B&O rail-yard freight desk (and yes, that is genuinely his given name), and Mr. Quill the funeral-home organist. Each tied on exactly one hand-tied fly — Royal Coachman, Quill Gordon, Adams, Hendrickson, or Light Cahill — and brought up exactly one lake trout of distinct weight: three, five, seven, nine, or eleven pounds, weighed at noon by the umpire from the Vermilion Rotary.

The Fly He Tied On

Weight at the Noon Scale

The Six Interlocking Clues

Mr. Hollenbeck will not, under any condition, tie on a fly that calls for feathers off a rooster — he picked it up from his father, who picked it up from his father, and on Lake Erie water he holds the line.
The angler who fished the Royal Coachman pulled in his catch a full four pounds heavier than the man who tied on the Adams.
Cold gray pier at dawn — Mr. Quill ties his namesake — three pounds bend his rod.
Mr. Pike, who works the freight desk at the B&O yard, weighed in a fish exactly four pounds heavier than the seventh-grade arithmetic teacher's.
Mr. Beauchamp, the Vermilion Avenue barber, would not lower himself to a Hendrickson — beneath his standards, he tells anyone who will listen, on account of the dun hackle going limp by ten.
Among the four anglers still on the dock after Mr. Quill's catch came off the scale, the man who teaches arithmetic at St. Stanislaus brought up the lightest fish of that remaining bunch — and the Hendrickson angler weighed in at exactly seven pounds, no more, no less.

A small solver's word from E.T. — keep a sharp pencil at the ready, and don't be shy with the cross-outs. Half the work in a five-by-five is in deciding firmly what a fellow didn't do. Solution to last Sunday's puzzle (the Hadley Hollow scarecrow contest) appears on Page 11; the solution to this Sunday's puzzle runs in next Sunday's Comics Section, printed upside-down so the children can't peek over breakfast.

The Five of Them, on the Pier, at the Noon Weigh-In

— inked Friday afternoon at the bullpen by Hal Voss, staff cartoonist; pulls double duty on Brenda Starr panels Tuesdays and Thursdays —

Solution Printed for Next Sunday's Page

Mr. Hollenbeck	Hendrickson	7 lb
Mr. Beauchamp	Light Cahill	11 lb
Mr. Czerwinski	Adams	5 lb
Mr. Pike	Royal Coachman	9 lb
Mr. Quill	Quill Gordon	3 lb

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