People assigned to do crossword puzzles showed typical cognitive one-year declines, Dr. Wolinsky said.
Atchison, Hefner and Rice all started with crossword puzzles mostly just to fight off boredom.
"Our whole thing is so 'rock': we do crossword puzzles, " she says.
Former Yankees pitcher (and Stanford grad) Mike Mussina got so good at them that he appeared in "Wordplay, " a 2006 documentary about crossword puzzles.
On a folding wooden chair next to her cot sits a can of sunflower seeds and a stack of crossword puzzles from a local Russian-language newspaper.
Three hours, two crossword puzzles and half a novel about a juicy divorce later, we hovered over a paradise of crisp white sand and sparkling turquoise water.
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The connection between baseball and crossword puzzles goes back generations.
Mets legend Tom Seaver did crossword puzzles during his career.
The best way to prevent dementia is to keep the mind active, whether it's by reading books, doing crossword puzzles, playing sudoku, or participating in other creative endeavors, says Kennedy.
During her years at Marian, where she majored in theology, it became clear to her that she was doing more than just exercising her brain, as she might with crossword puzzles.
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Mr Graham, who has been writing crossword puzzles for more than 50 years, told the paper he did not plan to make any future reference to his illness in other puzzles.
Ruma knew that the house, with the rooms her mother had decorated and the bed in which she liked to sit up doing crossword puzzles and the stove on which she'd cooked, was too big for her father now.
His mother, who loved books so much that when she was asked to name 100 favorites she could only narrow the list to 165, was suddenly veering from being able to do crossword puzzles one moment to being unable to remember what she had just said.
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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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One of Britain's most celebrated crossword setters has used one of his own puzzles to announce he is dying of cancer.
The three Met crossword enthusiasts all said that wherever they go, they meet at least one or two players who also enjoy puzzles.
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