What is the best way to start the week? Well, for me it is a strong black coffee but I heard that some couldn’t wait any longer for MOO thrilling cryptic questions, so here is the first one…
Nick Puts it Together
As Ray and I went over what we knew about the case–including the new detail that our client, Mary, wore a wig to cover up her blonde hair–Nick was busy writing on a piece of paper. We were used to this, so we ignored him and kept talking it out. We figured the whole thing revolved around Moo and Richard Moross. Suddenly, “Brothers,” Nick said, “look at this!”
Nick held out a scrap of paper with a bunch of names, including all three of ours, scrawled criss-cross on its surface. “What do you notice about these names?”
Ray said, “Well I notice that you don’t quite have all of our ursine friends’ names right. But she does cook apple pie, so she probably won’t mind the abbreviation.”
“Never mind that, ” Nick said, “what names are missing? What names didn’t fit?”
We scanned the 13 names on the paper and suddenly Ray sat down abruptly, “Oh my goodness.”
Then I saw it too. Every name we we’d become familiar with over the last few weeks–from friends to clients to enemies, from recent graduates to established professionals–were on the list. All of them, that is, except two.
“I’d better alert Junior and his folks,” I said as I picked up the phone and called.

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Mary and Goldilocks
1: Blaise
2: Poppa
3: Guin
4: Baby OR Mary
5A: Sus
5D: Sam
6: Erin
7: Grant
8: Ray
9: Mom
10: Twingor
11: Nick
12: Rod
pick me! pick me! i am product of the 80′s and used to record myself on the tape deck singing to kajagoogoo and thompson twins. i have since “upgraded”. i love USB. i even know what it stands for without wiki-ing it!!! pick me!
Mary and Goldilocks are missing.
Goldilocks is missing. 4 Down ends in a Y, which can either be Baby or Mary… but since it seems Mary may in fact be Goldilocks, I’ll go with Baby as the second missing name.
Richard and Goldilocks
it´s Baby bear and Goldilocks missing
Mary and Goldilocks (they are one and the same).
1 Blaise, 2 Poppa, 3 Guin, 4 Baby, 5A Sus, 5D Sam, 6 Erin, 7 Grant, 8 Ray, 9 Mom, 10 Twingor, 11 Nick 12 Rod
Goldilocks and Baby bear are missing.