Crossword help again

Once again I just don’t get it:confused:, the solution makes no sense to me. What wine or a newspaper article may have, four letters. Okay I get the wine clue, but newspaper article? Please explain. Thank you.

legs

Meaning it’s a really good story that will hang around for a while.

:smack:Wow, that was quick, thanks

Heh, on just reading the clue I thought the answer was “body” - wine is described as having body, and articles can be “body text”. I don’t think I was aware of “wine legs” until I looked it up.

I remember hearing about this from my 10-Letter crossword pals at The Local Bar. On the Eve of the 2000 presidential election, the NY Times crossword had a clue that read “Winner of the 2000 Presidential Election”. It was 4 letters across. The presidential nominees were Bush and Gore and either name entered would have solved the puzzle.

  • Anyone remember this?

I haven’t heard about that one, but the new york times did something similar for the 1996 election.

I don’t remember it, but am scratching my head trying to determine how either of those two names would work, since they do not share a common letter. :confused:

See the link that Inner Stickler posted.

I didn’t see the puzzle, but I did hear Will Shortz talk about it in an interview a month or two later. He said he got blasted from both sides.

Why would they need to share a common letter? As long as you can come up with a set of clues that have two plausible answers for each letter in both names, you’re fine. Okay, that is a big “as long as you can come up with,” but it’s certainly doable: the 1996 one was even more impressive, using two seven letter names: CLINTON and BOBDOLE, so there were seven orthogonal clues that had two answers that worked.