Quigley’s Quaint Quintet
American crossword maestro, Brendan Emmett Quigley is evasively wriggly when it comes to themes. In a recent puzzle, published within the spoof rag The Onion, BEQ featured the following key entries:
Ada Lovelace – reputedly the world’s first computer programmer
Lady Di
Ex-Ford exec, Lee Iacocca
Slavic Laker star, Vlade Divac
and civil rights activist Malcolm X
So what connects the quintet? I’ll let you muse for a day, and then add a little more to the picture.