In The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch's Turing sets a national crossword competition to find the best team for Bletchley.
Although he once won a Leica camera in a crossword competition aged 18, his mother wouldn't let him accept it, saying they were too poor to pay for the film to be developed.
The sun emblazoned the white houses skirting the Moorish castle, and Janet and I toyed with a crossword while enjoying an aperitif.
"When I show people that video, I tell people to not envision themselves with their foot hovering over the brake or with their white knuckles on the steering wheel, but rather they're in the back seat with the windows dark, doing a crossword puzzle or reading the newspaper, talking to family or whatever," he says.
Herzl, after all, had just been trying to negotiate that very thing with the Turks.A Jewish land, or just a land of Jews?In this section For old heads on young shoulders Christmas prize crossword Who wants to live for ever?
The tyranny of time Messages from the Hall of Tortured Souls This wooden O Cracking open the eggs Snow Whites and snake charmers CROSSWORD Freaks under pressure The foresight saga Rethinking thinking We woz wrong Lost in cyberspace Living la vida loca ReprintsIndeed in some sports it is the small who seem to triumph most.
It's Everton!"What he had found, after a long search, was the answer to the final clue in the first Guardian crossword puzzle that he had managed to complete.
The chart also reveals some broader trends.In this section The price of age Gerontological incertitude Tall ships, young crews One small boy The inevitable hour Fairly holy innocents New kicks on the block Playing with fire Hope for the no-hopers Dreaming of Altneuland Today, son*, all this is yours For old heads on young shoulders Christmas prize crossword Who wants to live for ever?
And they are even doing pretty well at crossword puzzles.
He is a crossword puzzle constructor, regularly selling his work to Will Shortz, the New York Times editor, who also directs the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, at which Dr Fill will debut on March 16th.Dr Ginsberg gave himself an additional constraint in building his solver: that it fit on a laptop.
