The utter delight that accompanies that moment is the answer to a much more sensible question than “are crosswords a kind of Alzheimer’s prophylactic?” The question: is it a good thing to solve puzzles?
This is the kind of answer you hear only from people who have a product named something like Your Daily Brain Workout App (first week free).
Or: doing puzzles might make you better at something, but that something could be limited to the doing of puzzles.
PS in our cluing conference for WHIPS, the runners-up are KenJam’s charming “Cats like what chef does with cream” and GappyTooth’s stark “Those who give discipline to politicians in leathers”; the winner is the raucous “These cats know how to organise a party!” Kludos to Peshwari.
It’s the wrong question It’s time to stop pussyfooting over any link between puzzles and dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and all the rest.
