Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

Chapter 1: Completing the Grid: How to Solve a Crossword 15 With your pencil in hand, read through the clues and see whether any ...

16 Part I: Crossword Strategies and Brain Benefits If you’ve made it this far and still have lots of blank boxes staring you in ...

Chapter 2 Staying Sharp: Giving Your Brain a Workout In This Chapter ▶ Realizing why brain fitness matters ▶ Being mentally acti ...

18 Part I: Crossword Strategies and Brain Benefits An ever-growing body of scientific research demonstrates that what our brains ...

Chapter 2: Staying Sharp: Giving Your Brain a Workout 19 Looking at recent research In the late 1980s, a study published in the ...

20 Part I: Crossword Strategies and Brain Benefits Creating a New Health Routine The way I see it, there are two broad categorie ...

Chapter 2: Staying Sharp: Giving Your Brain a Workout 21 Early diagnosis and tight control of these conditions may help prevent ...

22 Part I: Crossword Strategies and Brain Benefits Come armed with questions to ask about current events, politics, movies, book ...

Chapter 2: Staying Sharp: Giving Your Brain a Workout 23 Demanding discipline Most crossword puzzles require at least an hour to ...

24 Part I: Crossword Strategies and Brain Benefits Finding Out More about Brain Fitness: Key Resources This chapter barely scrat ...

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In this part... G ot your pencil ready? Good. Ready for a mental workout? Terrific. In this part, you can choose whatever level ...

Chapter 3 Tackling the Puzzles P lease be aware that not all crosswords are created equal. Puzzle con- structors aim to please, ...

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