the shortwave numbers mystery

the shortwave numbers mystery (thanks, Ivor!)

Also: this creepy archive of mysterious shortwave broadcasts, with banner reading

Have you ever listened to your short wave radio and heard a strange voice repeating numbers or letters ?? You may have stumbled across something they call a NUMBERS STATION

2000 BC

Neolithic carved stone polyhedra

From today's NYT crossword

Returns from Venus, say (7): VOLLEYS

I'm not sure why the "say" needs to be there. I like the clue better without it.

A suspicious NYT correction

This is from the 16 Nov 2004 New York Times:

A picture caption on Saturday with a film review about "Veer-Zaara" misidentified the actress shown. She is Preity Zinta, not Veer Zaara.

This has got to be a secret message to spies behind the lines, picking up their instructions in the newspaper. Or something like that.

But I can't figure out what it means.

I've tried saying this out loud:

"veer zaara, it's preity zinta."

hmmm...