Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as you might go for a walk to exercise your heart and lungs, you can do activities to exercise your brain. Doing word games ...

When I — a crossword beginner — do the Aug. 14 puzzle on Blackcrossword.com, I briefly fumble on one clue: “Turner from Tennessee.” The four-letter (and now obvious) answer is Tina. Later, when I ...

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This past December, I threw a party to celebrate a major milestone in my life: the 1,000th day of my New York Times crossword-solving streak. My friends, none of them fellow cruciverbalists, poured in ...