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Man slips marriage proposal into newspaper crossword puzzle

Man slips marriage proposal into newspaper crossword puzzle

Talk about reading in between the lines.

Crossword-loving lawyer, Matthew Dick, decided to take an unconventional route and hide his marriage proposal in a newspaper’s daily puzzle after persuading London’s The Times to let him, Metro News reports.

The crossword opened with one across: “Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there.”

The answer? His girlfriend’s name, “Delyth,” of course.

Dick, 38, told The Times that he showed his girlfriend the crossword during breakfast, with some choice words and phrases underlined. Then, he “reached into [his] pocket to reveal a ring.”

“She looked so surprised and didn’t say anything for about 30 seconds, before then saying ‘No,’ which she thought was hilarious,” he said. “But she did then say ‘Yes’ and I had to tell her this was the real Times crossword, not something I had printed out myself.”

Delyth said that she was “dumbfounded that he’d gone to such lengths.”

But, because Delyth knows the man that she’s going to marry, she said that it was “also bloody typical, as he’s a smart-arse at the best times.”

“I’ve heard all of the engagement stories,” she said. “But this one trumps them all.”

“It’s so special and such a geeky way of doing it.”

The Times’ crossword editor, Richard Rogan, said that he believed that this was the very first time the newspaper has hidden a marriage proposal within one of the puzzles. He said it was “a one-off” that would not be repeated.

However, we have to wonder just how many crossword enthusiasts, who look forward to solving The Times’ puzzle of the day, were driven mad by not being able to get past the first clue.