Crossword composer going strong at 100

Name: Crossword composer going strong at 100
Uploaded: 2014-04-14T20:22:55Z
Duration: 2 min 20 s
Description: At 100 years old, Bernice Gordon is still composing crossword puzzles and testing the brains of younger people.

At 100 years old, Bernice Gordon is still composing crossword puzzles and testing the brains of younger people.

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There are some who attribute a long and happy life to never having tackled a crossword. There is at least one American lady who says otherwise. Still going strong at 100 years old, Bernice Gordon is possibly the world’s oldest crossword-puzzle composer.

In our continuing series called Going Strong, Al Jazeera has been visiting centenarians – people who have reached the age of 100.

Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports from Washington DC.