Thursday August 19, 2021 Tomas Spiers
Follow the Money Tomas Spiers , our constructor today, invites us to do what all the solvers in the mystery shows do, that is "Follow the Money!". I tried tracking down Tomas on the Net, but as he doesn't leave a trace, this could be his debut puzzle, for the LAT at least. Perhaps Lemony or HG could weigh in on that. Tomas gives us 4 themers for "Money", all filled with common synonyms or slang for " Legal Tender for all debts, public or private ". 20A. Money for a visit to the Colonel?: CHICKEN TENDER . "the Colonel" is of course a reference to Colonel Harlan Sanders , the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain. But if you want really TENDER chickens you need to get them from a TOUGH man, like Frank Perdue . Perdue raises his own breed of chickens on on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay: Some people contend that the run off from poultry farms on the shore have made it T...