Possible Clues:

• 1,000, vis-à-vis 10
• 27, 216 or 2197
• Block inexperienced reporter heading east
• Shape made of six equal squares
• Ice tray unit
• Young European, perhaps twenty-seven
• 1,000 or 1,000,000
• Hint about bishop, a solid figure
• Little creature with face of eight or nine?
• 8, vis-à-vis 2