acrostic fame

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 20, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Allison Murie wrote:

>> 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."
>>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> I wonder how she'd rank the old ones in SRL.

very highly.

she's been doing double-crostics since, oh, 1960.  it was partly my
doing.

arnold