Crossword Puzzles... you're doing it wrong.

I made a crossword puzzle for my students this week. Although they understand the concept clearly, they sometimes fail terribly when finding the answers to the clues (and when I say fail terribly, I mean that it's worse than Kirstie Alley trying to fit into a size 1 pair of jeans).

One class of students today were particularly lazy and did not feel like doing the puzzle. I looked at my one loud-mouthed student's paper in the back -- it was BLANK. I encouraged him to give it a try. I came back 5 minutes later and I saw that he filled out a couple of answers. I was actually surprised he got one in particular:

Clue 15 Down: The word "ad" is short for _____.

It was a 13-letter clue that I didn't expect the slacker to know. I looked at what he wrote and saw this:

"STEPHEN HAWKIN"

He was referring to the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. I burst out with laughter. The student who wrote it wasn't laughing at all though.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE FAIL.

Other worthy mentions:

Clue 7 Across: Edison made the first light bulb = Edison ____ the light bulb.

8 letters... "CUCUMBER"

Clue 2 Across: The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants are _____.

8 letters... "EHPSWOWO"

Clue 15.5 Down: What is the comparative form of "hot?"

6 letters... "HOTDOG"