{"id":13352,"date":"2018-12-21T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2018-12-21T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:00:02","slug":"crossword-puzzle-day-21st-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13352","title":{"rendered":"Crossword Puzzle Day 21st December"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Crossword Puzzle Day<\/h2>\n<p>This is your opportunity to start sharpening your pencil and get sharpening your brain.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate Crossword Puzzle Day, try solving a crossword or creating a crossword puzzle of your own.\u00a0Varieties include acrostic, arroword, and skeleton crosswords, as well as straight and cryptic crossword.<\/p>\n<h2>Elizabeth Kingsley<\/h2>\n<p>The first double-crostic puzzle was published in the\u00a0Saturday Review in 1934. It was created by Elizabeth Kingsley. She\u00a0went on to write puzzles for the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0between May 9, 1943 and December 28, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_media-163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-media-163\" style=\"width: 1880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13353\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/newspaper-news-media-spectacles-53209.jpeg\" alt=\"frame less eyeglasses on newspaper\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-media-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Pixabay on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/frame-less-eyeglasses-on-newspaper-53209\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"page-title\">Can crossword puzzles keep your brain young?<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainhq.com\/brain-resources\/brain-facts-myths\/brain-mythology\/brain-myth-doing-crossword-puzzles-can-keep-your-brain-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BrainHQ<\/a>\u00a0 this is a myth. While they may improve your ability to find words, they don&#8217;t help your brain&#8217;s overall cognition or memory.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can make them more challenging and push your brain to the next level. To do this set a time limit and see how fast you can complete the crossword. Or, try solving a puzzle that&#8217;s harder than you normally try.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossword Puzzle Day This is your opportunity to start sharpening your pencil and get sharpening your brain. To celebrate Crossword Puzzle Day, try solving a crossword or creating a crossword puzzle of your own.\u00a0Varieties include acrostic, arroword, and skeleton crosswords, as well as straight and cryptic crossword. Elizabeth Kingsley The first double-crostic puzzle was published &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13352\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crossword Puzzle Day 21st December<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,29,641],"tags":[737,738,739],"class_list":["post-13352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-games","category-puzzles","tag-crossword-puzzle-day-21st-december","tag-crossword-puzzles","tag-elizabeth-kingsley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crossword Puzzle Day 21st December - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13352\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crossword Puzzle Day 21st December - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Crossword Puzzle Day This is your opportunity to start sharpening your pencil and get sharpening your brain. 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