Three Dollar Quill

I've got stuff to do for pip, but for today, I took care of some more urgent things, and then just took it easy for a bit. I'm working on the latest puzzle hunt from Cracking the Cryptic. I'm kind of wondering what the proper way to solve the first part was, because I honestly ended up guessing and checking.

In any case, I'm going to have to step things up to finish by the end of the month. The other parts seem pretty tricky.

Going to call things here because I don't think I can spin anything I did today into a longer entry, and it doesn't make sense to try.

Good night.