[SPOILERS GALORE!] [NYT CROSSWORD SPOILERS! ENDING OF JANE EYRE SPOILERS!]
The New York Times crossword had a clue sometime this past week, something like “Literary heroine’s name that describes her appearance and the end of the book.”
Other letters left no choice other than Jane Eyre.
“Huh. Okay, Jane, Plain Jane, kind of a stretch but … the end of the book? Eyre? Air? Because she hears his voice in the air?” And then, “Oooohhhh, ‘heir’. That’s amazing.”
Was it deliberate? Opinions are mixed. But at least it must be a subliminal pun.
2 responses to “TWIL: Something new about my favorite book”
Ooh, Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books, too.
Does the crossword clue mean that Jane is the “heir apparent”?
CHM – apparently!