Experts analysed data from more than 17,000 healthy people aged 50 and over submitted in an online trial. The team at the University of Exeter Medical School and Kings College London asked participants how frequently they played word puzzles such as crosswords. Those readers of U Magazine who keenly look forward to its crossword puzzle will be noticing, in the current issue, that the grid does not match the clues. Cracking it involves spotting which part of the phrase gives a straightforward definition of the answer. The rest gives you another chance to grasp the solution, in the form of wordplay - an anagram, perhaps, or a string of abbreviations which combine to give the word or words to write in the grid - see examples, right. Guy is taking it upon himself, and with your kind generosity, to try and complete 2,000 crossword clues in 15 hours using unseen Times puzzles.

‘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.

• 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.
• By the time he died, in 1963, Dawe had produced more than 5,000 puzzles.
• The anthology series is set to come to an end after the forthcoming ninth season.
• The warehouse owners regularly drill into the other side of...Q.
• If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

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.

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
to play with friends, time their game, share their scores socially, and
play offline.

Here we have an anagram (from "confused") of "ad man" with the first letters of "goes left east" (indicated by "initially"), followed by another word for school, giving us one part of the University, MAGDALEN COLLEGE. 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. Willan narrated Channel 4’s The Circle and her acting credits include Still Open All Hours and BBC One prison drama Time, where she played Maeve in last year’s second series. The line-up has been announced for the 17th series of Taskmaster tonight, following the completion of the third Champion of Champions special. But if you haven't lived in the UK, that wordplay may prove a little challenging.

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.

• "On the other hand, you can sit staring at a word or words that you want to write a clue for and take 30 or 40 minutes, which includes 10 minutes of wandering around scratching your head, getting a cup of tea and suddenly something will happen.
• But one person who understands cryptic crosswords inside-out is Sarah Hayes, a Burnage grandma-of-two who creates them for national newspapers including The Guardian.
• We were told that this puzzle marks the 70th anniversary of the first appearance of what was to become the 25ac, 27to.

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.

• According to the publishers, the Guardian Puzzles app is the next step in
  the Guardian’s strategy to attract two million supporters by 2022.
• People who do daily crosswords or other puzzles have sharper brains in old age, a study suggests.
• The number of migrants smuggled into Britain in lorries has spiked after bad weather and a crackdown by French authorities last year prevented many small boat crossings, The Times can reveal.
• On Friday, June 3, a service of thanksgiving will be held at St Paul's Cathedral, which the 96-year-old monarch plans to attend, although special arrangements have been made as the Queen has mobility issues.

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. "At the moment, we’re pretty focused on driving people to create New York Times accounts so that they can capture their stats and streaks," Knight said. The puzzle was quickly acquired by the NYT for a price "in the low seven figures", becoming the ninth game in the paper’s stable. Like the Times’ Mini Crossword and Spelling Bee puzzles, Wordle does not require a Times subscription to access.

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The NYT’s games have long had a following, with a crossword-only subscription first launching in 1997. But its website added tens of millions of users all at once when, in January 2021, it bought Wordle. But it’s more complicated than sticking a sudoku on the website. The NYT has editors exclusively assigned to curating its game offering, and the publication puts great effort into keeping its community socially engaged with the puzzles.

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.

• The first stage of Emma Raducanu’s comeback came to a dramatic end in the second round of the Australian Open.
• Usually larger, and often with a theme, Christmas cryptics demand more time, possibly a few sessions over the holiday, and those who create them know that any member of the family may be called on to work on individual clues.
• But, in the end, it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence — a complete fluke,' he later recalled.

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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.

THE Campaign for Real Ale has come under fire after its Derby branch published a crossword clue with the word ‘negro’. In August 1942, Lord Tweedsmuir (the son of novelist John Buchan, who worked in Canadian intelligence) had led an inquiry into how 'Dieppe' had appeared as an answer in the Telegraph crossword the day before a disastrous Allied raid on the French port. All of which explains the panic that broke out when senior MI5 officers realised that codenames for several of the beaches in Normandy where troops would go ashore had begun cropping up in Dawe's crosswords. However, within a few weeks the original name of "word-cross" was transposed to "cross-word" and then to "crossword" for future puzzles.

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."

A special centenary Merseyside cryptic crossword will be devised by top news (fintnews.com) 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.

It’s a local charity and one of the hospices which we raised money for in memory of our friend Charlie two years ago. A lot of the income for St Christopher’s Hospice comes from the local charity shops, and during this crisis they are crying out for assistance. And he does try his best to make sure and sneak a few Northern Ireland clues in. "Performance was consistently better in those who reported engaging in puzzles, and generally improved incrementally with the frequency of puzzle use.