I helped John Cleese with a crossword puzzle

I helped John Cleese with a crossword puzzle on a plane when I was 5. He was sitting near us and kept saying to himself, "A five letter word that means, 'drill'." Now I had just started watching a buttload of these videos about drills and cranes and machinery ("Hardhat Harry" if anyone is interested) and so I told him the answer: "Auger." I didn't know who he was, but my mom realized it was him when the plane landed and she saw someone holding a sign that said, "Cleese." The sign didn't really say this, it just had his name written on it. Sorry if I may have caused any misconceptions.