The Boston Globe's Crossword Editor Has a Dirty Mind

Bostonist reader Matthew Fleischer discovered what was either the funniest joke in today's Boston Globe or the Freudianist of slips. On the crossword page. Fleischer writes: "And so it was with great joy today that I stumbled across the work of Leonard Gravis in the Boston Globe['s crossword page]. It only took one clue for Mr. Gravis to reel me in. 'The ___ mightier than the sword.'" Can you fill in the blank? Yes, the answer to clue 69 across was "penis." [True Slant]

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  • cheap_robv



    I knew I heard about something similar before...

    from BANNED CROSSWORDS:

    Why are crosswords one of the last bastions of Victorian Age public morality?

    Why does ASS have to be clued as "Balaam's beast," PENIS as "The ___ mightier than the sword," or ANAL as "Freud's study: Abbr."?

    Is it those blue-nosed editors? Not really. Editors are pretty open-minded people; they don those blinkers and blue noses so as not to shock that hypothetical average solver.


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