acrostic fame

[sagehen]

>an informant -- my daughter's godmother -- tells me that yesterday's
>NYT double-crostic puzzle was a quotation from geoff nunberg's Going
>Nucular, on retronyms.  she goes on, "I have often mused that having
>one's work rendered in a NYTimes double-crostic would be the ultimate
>literary accolade."
>
>arnold
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I wonder how she'd rank the old ones in SRL.  This happened to my
mother-in-law.  She'd known nothing about it until it began to come clear
in the weekly gathering of a small group of friends who met for the purpose
of doing the puzzle together.  As I remember, the quotation was from /Two
in the Far North./
A. Murie

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