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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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.

"About" as well as being an anagram indicator can also mean turning the word back to front.This one it transpired, once I’d solved the puzzle, met both these requirements.The former first minister "retained no messages whatsoever", the hearing in Edinburgh was told.A lot of people these days are kicking Richard Masters, the Premier League chief executive, and it’s a wonder that he has become a punchbag everywhere from the backpages to parliament because really he is the winner.Last year The Sunday Telegraph revamped its weekend print package to add what it said was "Britain’s biggest weekly puzzles section", and this week The Telegraph launched a new dedicated puzzles app.

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.


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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."


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.

At the moment I’m on stare – S, T, A, R, E. And it’s quite effective."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."Theoretically, you could do a cryptic without knowing what any of the solutions actually mean just by using the wordplay; equally, if you had an impossible large vocabulary you could do it just using the definitions.

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.


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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.

But Halpern isn’t just content (seven letters, ‘happy’) with people playing his crosswords in the nation’s newspapers.That PH abbreviation is familiar to anyone who has used an Ordnance Survey map.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.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...He does not intend on referring to his illness in future crosswords.

‘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.

Once again there are many indicators such as comprising, concealed, embracing, incorporating, surrounding etc.The puzzle's silhouette has caused a stir on social media, with several prominent Jewish leaders and political figures taking to social media to voice their outrage - especially since it was published on the first night of Hanukkah.On which topic, Press Gazette asked what word Knight, the game master himself, begins his Wordle games with.Married men and women reveal the thrill and the pain, the guilt...The Guardian yesterday announced the launch of Guardian Puzzles – a dedicated app for crosswords and puzzles from The Guardian and The Observer.

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.


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.

"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."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.If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.‘It was quite hard initially as I was trying to think of really cool clues.Ten asterisked clues lack a definition; these each belong to one of two thematic groupings, from which members from one group of four together portrayed the members of the remaining group of six.

A special centenary Merseyside cryptic crossword will be devised by Top News (Tkwebservice.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.


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.