In other words, a crossword puzzle may be a good remedy for an ailing attention span.
In the film's second half, the focus shifts to the Annual Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, Conn.
She aims to play an eccentric crossword puzzle fan who becomes fixated on a cameraman for CNN.
She is the first person I would ask if I was having trouble finishing a crossword puzzle or Sudoku.
In 1942 the school placed an anonymous letter in the Daily Telegraph to recruit people who were crossword puzzle experts.
"A crossword puzzle also narrows your focus for a while, " Murray said.
By 10 a.m. on this summer day, without any orders called in for his execution, Lavender passes the time with a crossword puzzle.
To help stave off the cognitive decline of aging, you might want to drop the crossword puzzle and head out for a brisk walk or a bike ride.
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Faces buried in a newspaper, pens in hand, Scott Atchison, Jeremy Hefner and Scott Rice spend their mornings racing to finish the daily crossword puzzle before first pitch.
Murray said the "narrow, external focus" used in pitching is not unlike the sort of focus required to solve a crossword puzzle, likening it, in some respect, to an activity like meditation.
In the first two frames, the southpaw Guerrero enjoyed some success with his straight left hand, but as always Mayweather calmly figured out his foe as though he were solving a crossword puzzle.
You keep your head low and you walk around the corner 300 yards to what is quite called with accuracy exquisite the Local Bar with a Guardian crossword puzzle curled under your arm.
Especially when it comes to security breaches done through fake quick response codes, or QR codes (crossword puzzle looking bar code scan-able by some smart phones), the iPhone is a lot safer, he says.
Bell, who has been a crossword puzzle buff since he was 10, and a team of five or six other wordsmiths (the puns in the office, Bell says, are frequent and frequently bad) come up with an initial list of as many as 1, 000 names.
He also said he was "very touched" by the reaction to the crossword, which first appeared in the puzzle magazine 1 Across.
However, unless you are possessed of a decent puzzle-solving intellect (and like crossword puzzles adventure games get easier to work out the more one plays them) or have a very high tolerance for trial and error, you may find that occasionally consulting an online walkthrough will ease frustration.
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