28 Down: Jesus’ Wife?

I work the crossword puzzles from the daily paper each weekday at work. Sometimes the clients do as well. They kid me when I make a mistake and often ask my help with clues.

The other day, just after 6:30 am wake-up, one of the clients said, “We needed your help last night. We were working one of the crossword puzzles and we needed to know the answer … Who was Jesus’ wife?”

Both Huw and I stared at him for a second, looked at each other, back to him, and in tandem, with grimace, said: “Jesus’ wife?”

“Yeah,” he said, “the clue was, ‘Who was Jesus’ wife?’ The answer’s ‘Mary’ right? Is that right? Mary? Jesus’ wife?”

Another mutual glance between Huw & I.

I mean, I’m aware of confusion caused by “The DaVinci Code” and other Gnostic stuff floating around. But the newspaper?

“No. No. Was this in the newspaper?” I asked.

“Yeah! Right, guys?” He got nods of verification from several others.

Back to Huw; then I stared out into space for a second. “You know,” I said, “I bet they mean ‘Hay-sues’ … you know, Spanish … like ‘Who was Hay-sues’ wife?’ … and the answer was ‘Seniorita’ or something.”

“Nope. I think the answer began with an ‘L’ … four letters. But I’m pretty sure it was talking about the Lord.” (Quick glance at Huw. “The Lord?” Back to the clients). “Isn’t that right guys? Wasn’t it talking about the Lord?” he asked.

Yup. They all agreed.

Dang.

“I dunno,” I said. We all went about our business for the next 10 minutes or so when …

Huw piped up: “Lady!”

Wha?

“Lady. The Lord’s wife … Lady.”

Ha! It took a little explaining to the clients but, for two guys, it was a hoot.