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By Amy Oliver for The Mail on SundayUpdated: 07:51 BST, 19 April 2011

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As alliance proposals go it absolutely wasn't the best acceptable approach.

But aback Marlowe Epstein helped her admirer complete a crossword alone to acknowledge the words 'will you ally me' she realised she was assimilate a winner.

And luckily for Corey Newman - Miss Epstein's admirer of one year - the 31-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, said yes there and again rather than accomplish him delay for a adverse crossword of his own.

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Cute couple: Marlowe Epstein couldn't absolutely accept it aback her admirer Corey Newman proposed via a custom-built crossword puzzle

Mr Newman, 28, an accident planner, had been acute his angle for months afterwards chief he capital to accomplish it added special.

So with the advice of Bob Klahn, veteran crossword architect for The Washington Post, he began accumulation his clues.

Miss Epstein told the Washington Post Saturday morning had seemed 'like business as accepted to me.'

Give us a clue: Mr Newman tricked Miss Epstein into allowance him with the crossword which spelled out the proposal

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She had woken up to a cup of coffee and had afterwards acclimatized bottomward on the daybed with Mr Newman and the crossword afterwards he'd craftily asked for her help.

Thirty-seven beyond had the clue: Shakespeare in Adulation role. The answer? Marlowe.39 beyond was: Casablanca biographer Julius or Philip' - answer, Epstein.

'Am I accident my mind?' Miss Epstein said afore advancing to the aftermost - and best important - clue.

Pay 'em later: Mr Newman, left, swipes a archetype of the cardboard with the angle crossword in it from an appointment doorway, but did say he would balance them

Fifty-one across: 'Words with a assertive arena to them.'

'Will you ally me?' she appropriate to Mr Newman who again proceeded to aftermath a design ring, get bottomward on one knee and pop the question.

'I was array of absolute away,' Miss Epstein said later. 'I was so afflicted that he managed to cull that off!'

Honey, can you advice me? Miss Epstein helps out Mr Newman on some basic crossword clues afterwards he pretends to be stuck

Hang on a minute...Mr Newman's absolute intentions become bright as he produces a design arena and gets bottomward on one knee to propose

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Three little letters: Miss Epstein says yes as the cat looks on non-plussed by the activity alteration event

Mr Newman had originally planned to adduce on Sunday, but a scavenger coursing the brace had planned to go on was afflicted to that day, so he absitively to do it last-minute on Saturday.

An aboriginal accession of the Washington Post was out, but try as he ability Mr Newman couldn't acquisition a boutique that awash it.

In the end he 'borrowed' one from an appointment doorstep, adage he would go aback the abutting day and accord them a brace of dollars.

'I charge this paper,' he joked.

The approaching Mr and Mrs Newman: Miss Epstein said she had no abstraction her admirer of a year was about to propose

Bemused Post readers may accept been hardly puzzled by the benefit crossword, but adeptness ones will accept best up on the affair as there were abounding references to weddings nestled within.

And there were additionally added claimed ones for Miss Epstein, including Aiken - her home boondocks in South Carolina and 'Corey' - Mr Newman's aboriginal name.

Mr Newman met his wife to be in January aftermost year at an Irish Pub in Alexandria. He says it was adulation at aboriginal afterimage for him and the brace started chatting.

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Two weeks afterwards and Miss Epstein, who works in communications, arrive Mr Newman and some accompany over to her place.

The brace concluded up chatting until morning, but hadn't accounted for the blast that had been bawl alfresco all night.

Mr Newman was abandoned and had to break at Miss Epstein's abode for four days.

Their meet-ups again became approved and afore continued they were active calm and talking bender marriage.

'I’m aloof amazed,' Miss Epstein said about the proposal. 'I did not see it advancing at all.'

'I’ve been cogent her always that she was special,' Mr Newman added. 'And I capital to do article so she would apperceive that I meant it.'

In a alive web babble today Mr Newman appear he had not yet gone aback to the appointment area he 'borrowed' the cardboard to accord them some money, but did affiance to do so.

He additionally said that Bob Klahn had let him off his fee for the addle and that it hadn't been the aboriginal time the quiz adept had aggregate such a crossword (he had done one that angled as a alliance angle for the New York Times in 1998. The woman had agreed that time too.).

Mr Newman paid accolade to Miss Epstein accommodation for crosswords adage she had got him into the hobby.

'I was absolutely never a crossword addle guy afore I met her but it was article that she was actual into and I approved to get into it so we could do it together,' he said.

'I'm into it now but she's actual abundant bigger than I am.'

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