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Icy North Started conversation Jun 17, 2015
The Times Crossword is back in the headlines today, after including in its cryptic clues a reader's marriage proposal to his girlfriend:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33163304
The answers are in the linked article, but if you want to solve them first, two of the relevant ones are:
1. Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there (6) - hint: it's his fiancee's name
5. 'Will you marry me', say, that's forward also rude! (8)
His girlfriend eventually accepted the proposal, but, according to that article, she described her fiance as "a smart-arse at the best of times". 
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Bluebottle Posted Jun 17, 2015
It's all the other crossword-completing Welsh girls with that name who know people called Matthew I feel sorry for...
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