Possible Clues:

• In any way possible
• In any manner necessary
• Somehow
• Having determination to show authorship rests between pirate and criminal (2,4,2,2,5)
• Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters
• Using any means
• Whatever it takes
• In whatever way possible
• No matter what
• New York hobo and Cork boy connected somehow (2,4,2,2,5)