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The Christmas break allows British families time for play, which some may choose to spend around a board game; others turn to the fiesta of puzzles in their newspaper. ‘I tend to wander down the street and start playing with road signs and things like that, jumbling the words up and seeing words backwards and finding hidden things or anagrams – I’ve done it ever since I was a kid,’ he said. Playing puzzles is a great way of saying failure is okay actually, failure is just the next step on the way to success and you’re not stupid and you are completely capable.


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"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."A Reddit user called Thunder_Child_209 noticed that the Guardian ran a crossword set my Sphinx – the name of a compiler Pemberton played Inside No 9, which contained a hidden message relevant to the show.Halpern, 46, from Sussex, caught the crossword bug in his early 20s.The publisher Simon & Schuster began by selling the first crossword book in 1924.The team at the University of Exeter Medical School and Kings College London asked participants how frequently they played word puzzles such as crosswords.

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That PH abbreviation is familiar to anyone who has used an Ordnance Survey map.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.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...

A newborn baby girl was found in a shopping bag by a dog walker in -1C temperatures, police said. The girl had been wrapped in a towel and was discovered in Newham, east London, at about 9pm on Thursday. The dog walker alerted emergency services and kept the baby warm until paramedics arrived.

This one it transpired, once I’d solved the puzzle, met both these requirements.However, it is...Humza Yousaf has cooled on an offer from the Turkish president for news a bilateral meeting after opposition from within the SNP.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.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."About" as well as being an anagram indicator can also mean turning the word back to front.

A special centenary Merseyside cryptic crossword will be devised by top 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.


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.


When Rachael solved the final clue Edward whipped out a ring and proposed. Sociologist Edward sat down with teacher Rachael to complete their weekly puzzle together. The crossword was printed in the Eastern Daily Press on the couple’s seven-year anniversary. The first stage of Emma Raducanu’s comeback came to a dramatic end in the second round of the Australian Open.


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.



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.


I’ll be downloading and printing out the crosswords from The Times’ website – and making sure they’re ones I haven’t seen before. "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. As more than one of you said in your comments, this instruction was a difficult one to fully comprehend. Incidentally, I digress, these rubrics are tricky things to write requiring as they do total accuracy and a pithy presentation.


Other minority time courses include French and Spanish cinema, football coaching, science fiction, astronomy, car ownership or community action. Cruciverbalism is part of a programme of `minority-time' courses at the school. Halpern is also on something of a crusade to bring the puzzles to a new generation.


In this clue the definition is ‘agree’ and the indicator is ‘reportedly’. Women comprise only 26 per of Britain’s technology workforce, but Nicola Hodson has made it to the very top. The...Women comprise only 26 per of Britain’s technology workforce, but Nicola Hodson has made it to the very top. The chief executive of IBM UK and Ireland and deputy president of techUK spent 14 years in senior roles at Microsoft and holds an MBA and a PhD in engineering. This...Women comprise only 26 per of Britain’s technology workforce, but Nicola Hodson has made it to the very top. 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.



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.


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.


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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To celebrate the Oxford Student’s new cryptic, here’s a guide to the basics.He admitted that terminating his short-lived...Jürgen Klopp has mounted a staunch defence of Jordan Henderson and said the rush to judge the former Liverpool captain over his career moves is wrong.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.

These types of clues are the holy grail of the crossword enthusiast, requiring exceptional craftiness from the setter. A Reddit user called Thunder_Child_209 noticed that the Guardian ran a crossword set my Sphinx – the name of a compiler Pemberton played Inside No 9, which contained a hidden message relevant to the show. For another thing, solvers are helped by knowing that there may well be lots of Christmas-themed clues. Or a more elaborate puzzle might have a line from a well-known carol around its outer edge, giving an aid to completion, once this has been understood. "Some of the best Christmas crossword clues are like Christmas cracker riddles," says Phil McNeill, the Telegraph's crossword editor, "except hopefully not quite as corny."


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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."