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.
‘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.
A special centenary Merseyside cryptic crossword will be devised by top news (https://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.
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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.
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.
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."
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- But few have caused as much head-scratching as a series that hit newsstands at the height of World War II.
- He came up with a distinctive variant of the puzzle, which revolved around in-jokes and subtle wordplay.
- Other minority time courses include French and Spanish cinema, football coaching, science fiction, astronomy, car ownership or community action.
- A national newspaper crossword setter has used one of his own puzzles to reveal that he is dying of cancer.
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.
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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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.
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.