A marriage proposal by crossword clue

Jennie Bass regularly does the Boston Globe magazine crossword, and sat down with her boyfriend, Aric Egmont, to do Sunday's puzzle. She had no idea, until she came to the clue for 111 across, "Generic proposal", that there was anything odd about it. But as she worked out the answer - "Will you marry me" - Egmont suddenly produced a ring, got down on one knee and proposed. He had colluded with the Globe's crossword compilers to have the clue inserted. She said "yes", by the way. (Via Boston Globe)