{"id":66125,"date":"2014-02-04T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=66125"},"modified":"2014-02-04T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:14:10","slug":"five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"TPR<\/a>

Photo: Martin Huber<\/p><\/div>\n

There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times <\/em>Sunday crossword. In which case, we\u2019ve made it. The Times<\/em> may direct its complimentary jeroboam of Dom Perignon to 544 West 27th Street, New York, NY, 10001.<\/p>\n

The clue is \u201cContributors to The Paris Review<\/em>, e.g.\u201d The answer is eight letters. Take your best guess.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday crossword. In which case, we\u2019ve made it. The Times may direct its complimentary jeroboam of Dom Perignon to 544 West 27th Street, New York, NY, 10001. The clue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[2550,12775,12776,282],"class_list":["post-66125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-champagne","tag-crossword-puzzles","tag-fame","tag-the-new-york-times"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWe\u2019re in the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H! by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"478\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"198\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H!\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"champagne\",\"crossword puzzles\",\"fame\",\"The New York Times\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Look\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\",\"name\":\"We\u2019re in the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\",\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dan Piepenbring\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"We\u2019re in the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle","description":"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H! by Dan Piepenbring","og_description":"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":478,"height":198,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dan Piepenbring","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dan Piepenbring"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/"},"author":{"name":"Dan Piepenbring","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8"},"headline":"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H!","datePublished":"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/"},"wordCount":88,"commentCount":6,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg","keywords":["champagne","crossword puzzles","fame","The New York Times"],"articleSection":["Look"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/","name":"We\u2019re in the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg","datePublished":"2014-02-04T19:15:40+00:00","description":"February 4, 2014 \u2013 There are many yardsticks for fame and influence, but by my lights, you haven\u2019t really \u201cmade it\u201d until you\u2019ve appeared in a clue for the Times Sunday","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TPR-crossword-2.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/five-down-o-o-h-y-e-a-h\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Five Down: O-O-H Y-E-A-H!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8","name":"Dan Piepenbring","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dan Piepenbring"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66135,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66125\/revisions\/66135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}