[About the construction of a NYT crossword puzzle that had Stevie Nicks as the answer. Hey, Lindsey does crossword puzzles. I wonder if he knew the answer]
Don’t Quit Your Day Job By Deb Amlen November 15, 2014 6:00 NYT Blog
http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-day-job/?_r=0
Today’s puzzle takes a list of celebrities or people of note and clues their names in punny ways. If that was it for the theme, it would be a fun yet simple exercise in figuring out the pun and solving one’s way to the finish line. But because Mr. Ries wants you to have more fun than that, he has taken the last names of these people and clued them as if those last names were indicative of jobs at which they would be really bad.
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For the STEVIE NICKS clue, I gave the option of using mohel or barber. I preferred mohel for the humor (which is why I put it at the end, a page out of the Merl Reagle textbook). Honestly, I thought that the safer barber choice would be used, so I’m pleasantly surprised that mohel “made the cut” (pun intended).