# Crossword help again **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339 "2016-06-02T20:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Willowcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Willowcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willowcat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/1 "2016-06-02T20:56:35Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/2 "2016-06-02T21:07:43Z")
Meaning it’s a really good story that will hang around for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Willowcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Willowcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willowcat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/3 "2016-06-02T21:38:27Z")
:smack:Wow, that was quick, thanks ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/4 "2016-06-03T07:31:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/5 "2016-06-03T14:23:12Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/6 "2016-06-03T14:28:39Z")
I haven’t heard about that one, but [the new york times](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/clinton-1996-election-nyt-crossword-gif/) did something similar for the 1996 election. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/7 "2016-06-03T16:06:01Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > 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 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. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/8 "2016-06-03T16:18:33Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > 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. 😕 See the link that **Inner Stickler** posted. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/9 "2016-06-06T00:30:59Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-help-again/756339/10 "2016-06-08T20:54:30Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > 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. 😕 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.