Crossword puzzle every day 'keeps brains sharper in old age'

Her TV credits include Channel 4's The Big Fat Quiz of Everything and the Republic Of Telly, a show she co-hosted on Ireland’s RTE2. If your family is going to complete the grid, you'd hope to have one member who can pick out a piece of cricket terminology - "caught", say (C), or "not out" (NO) - and another with a grasp of the UK armed forces ("Jolly", slang for a Royal Marine may indicate RM. "Pub", for example, is often an indication that the word contains an "PH", as in public house - and the same goes for "local", "boozer", or any other word used in the UK to describe an ale-house.



While at the university, Kate and William spoke with students about mental health and wellbeing, with their visit taking place during Mental Health Awareness Week. She managed to complete the crossword (she’s had plenty of practice), figured out was happening, and was overjoyed. ‘It was quite hard initially as I was trying to think of really cool clues.


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He said there is no better way to forget a bad day than by sitting down to do a crossword. In The Daily Telegraph, the name Dada is inspired partly by the Dada art movement and partly by the fact that Halpern was trying to become a father when he started compiling puzzles for the paper. If you are done with the 11 January 2024 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword Puzzle and are looking for older puzzles then we recommend you to visit the archive page. He does not intend on referring to his illness in future crosswords.

If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us."As I sometimes discuss crosswords on the internet, John Halpern contacted me to say he was doing a 10-venue national tour to celebrate the centenary and we agreed to set up the Liverpool event," said Alan, a retired civil servant.‘It was quite hard initially as I was trying to think of really cool clues.But Halpern isn’t just content (seven letters, ‘happy’) with people playing his crosswords in the nation’s newspapers.

A special centenary Merseyside cryptic crossword will be devised by Top news newspaper expert compiler John Halpern tonight at the Belvedere pub, off Falkner Street, Liverpool. Crossword fan Kate Middleton showed off her deduction skills yesterday when she helped a Scottish university student work out the answer to a clue about the Daily Mail. The Duchess of Cambridge was reportedly 'thrilled' to get the crossword answer right during a visit to Glasgow with Prince William, according to the Daily Mail. The answer is NERO; it’s hidden inside "insaNE ROman" (indicated by "some"), while the whole clue describes the solution.

The site already has a forum for Spelling Bee, which Knight said gets "over 1,000 comments a day" and is one of the most-trafficked pages on The New York Times’ website.Up to 2,800 jobs are set to be lost in south Wales after Tata Steel confirmed to workers that it would press ahead with the closure of both of its blast furnaces at Port Talbot.Jonathan Knight has an unusual background for a New York Times executive.

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Indeed, such was its success that (while other compilers also played their part), Dawe is regarded to this day as the man who popularised what we now call 'cryptic crosswords'.The Guardian yesterday announced the launch of Guardian Puzzles – a dedicated app for crosswords and puzzles from The Guardian and The Observer.On which topic, Press Gazette asked what word Knight, the game master himself, begins his Wordle games with.

The 91-year-old said he was touched by the reaction to his crossword, which first appeared in the 1 Across puzzle magazine in December. Duggie knows that plenty of people now enjoy Sudoku but for him the crossword will always be king. "It's nice to get a local reference in. The very word Ulster being an anagram of result was quite good last year because we got results didn't we? A result of a kind - a good clue for Ulster."



Then came a puzzle with the answer 'Neptune', which was what the Allies were calling the naval assault phase of D-Day. Indeed, so paranoid were Allied commanders about details leaking that a new level of classification, called 'BIGOT', was used. The Liverpool crossword event is being organised by enthusiasts Alan Maycock, of Toxteth, and Sue Taylor, of Sefton Park. It appeared in the New York World newspaper and embodied most of the features we recognise today. The outlet went on to ask its 38,000 followers if they thought the disturbing imagery was intentional or not. The paper did not immediately respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment Saturday evening when poised the same question.

He does not intend on referring to his illness in future crosswords.Its intuitive gameplay, combined with a mechanism that let users share their performance on social media without spoiling the answer, helped Wordle to viral fame at the end of 2021.That PH abbreviation is familiar to anyone who has used an Ordnance Survey map.Even locals rarely reach the gaudy, stone-clad house at number 55L...Tourists in Rome wanting to see the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain rarely venture out as far as...Tourists in Rome wanting to see the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain rarely venture out as far as...The compiler will often try to throw you off the scent (after all, that’s his job in a cryptic crossword) so you may see a word such as number, which may mean 1, 2, 3 etc but may mean more numb, or anaesthetic (because they make you numb!).And to ensure that members don’t miss the chance to take part, we’re presenting the correct grid here, with the clues – for you to print out, complete and send in.

Wordle is a simple puzzle game that gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word which changes each day. Its intuitive gameplay, combined with a mechanism that let users share their performance on social media without spoiling the answer, helped Wordle to viral fame at the end of 2021. There were some easy clues in the NW corner to get me off to a confident start but I hit some problems along the way with several unknown words that had to be constructed from wordplay, and a couple of definitions I didn’t find exactly helpful. "Then it’s the interesting bit where you make up clues for each word – you have to be as original and witty as possible. Sometimes I can stay up half the night working on it – but it’s great fun and I still love it." Nicola Sturgeon deleted all her WhatsApp messages during the pandemic, the UK Covid inquiry has heard. The former first minister "retained no messages whatsoever", the hearing in Edinburgh was told.


People waiting we’re told for a signal is the crossword clue of the shortest answer. "Sudoku does represent quite an expansion in puzzles and people do enjoy them but, as a colleague of mine once said, he never learnt anything by doing Sudoku but he always learns a lot every time he does a crossword." That's an incredible number of downs and acrosses, but, as Duggie admits, he has several computer programmes to help him design the crosswords. The study, one of the largest of its kind, used tests from the CogTrackTM and Protect online cognitive test systems to assess core aspects of brain function. They found that the more regularly participants engaged with word puzzles, the better they performed on tasks assessing attention, reasoning and memory. The app has special features including a two-player mode allowing readers
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No broadcast date has yet been announced for the 17th series of Taskmaster, but the show typically launches in March and September. Pemberton  is best known for creating and starring in Inside No 9 with Reece Shearsmith, the pair having initially been part of The League Of Gentlemen with Mark Gatiss and writer Jeremy Dyson. The anthology series is set to come to an end after the forthcoming ninth season. Live he performs as the enthusiastic but irritating Mr. Swallow,   a character who has played the West End and also made several appearances on 8 Out Of 10 Cats Do Countdown. Irish comedian, known for her long-running Prosecco Express stand-up tour and for co-hosting the podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me with model Vogue Williams.


‘I just guided her around a bit before that and made sure she didn’t spend too long on that side of the crossword. He reached out to his local Eastern Daily Press to craft coded clues all based on facts about Rachael and references to their relationship. If you don’t have a printer, we’re happy for you to simply write out the solution (as 1 down, 7 across, etc…) and send that instead.


Crossword compilers regularly send messages in their work – at the beginning of this year, Rev Graham, 92, used his own Guardian crossword to reveal he has cancer. In one of his own crosswords, Halpern wished his mother a happy 80th birthday. People who do daily crosswords or other puzzles have sharper brains in old age, a study suggests. Solving the undefined asterisked clues was helped enormously from being of an age that tuned into the Goons on the wireless (there’s a word now little used but back then pervasive) in my youth.