Mindel’s response was identical to the answer to 57-Down: “Yes. “I just kissed her and said, ‘Will you marry me?”’ Gottlieb picked up the story: “Four letters from being done, her voice is sort of quivering and she says, ‘This puzzle …’ “In the back of my mind, I thought this has to be for me, but it can’t be,” she said. Many a New York Times puzzle solver had his or her vocabulary expanded during the Maleska years, and his legions of fans still appreciate his legacy. Maleska, the third crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times, held the position from 1977 to 1993. Gottlieb’s first name (14-Across: Microsoft chief, to some) and the three long answers that provided the puzzle’s theme: “Modest Proposal” (20-Across: 1729 Jonathan Swift pamphlet, with “A”) “This Diamond Ring” (38-Across: 1965 Gary Lewis and the Playboys hit) and “Will You Marry Me” (56-Across: 1992 Paula Abdul hit, with Stevie Wonder on harmonica). Will Weng was the crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times from 1969 to 1977. Mindel solved the puzzle constructed by Bob Klahn, she found her first name (18-Across: poet Dickinson), Mr. I was an editor (and then the editor in chief) of Games magazine when Eugene T. With help from the crossword editor Will Shortz, Bill Gottlieb, a 27-year-old lawyer, proposed to his girlfriend, Emily Mindel, a 24-year-old law student, over brunch at a Manhattan restaurant in 1998. Maleska receives a puzzle from math professor and. Maleska to get both their names, “proposes,” “marriage,” and “I do” into the crossword. Earlier that year, the office of the New York Times puzzle editor: New York Times puzzle editor Eugene T. proposed to Peter Sherman in the Septempuzzle, after working with then-editor Eugene T. We know of two that ran in The New York Times. Solving with a loved one is a popular pastime, and sometimes those collaborations lead to marriage proposals.
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