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Lifestyle - Sunday, May 17, 2026
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Lifestyle headlines for Sunday, May 17, 2026
Lifestyle headlines for 2026-05-17 focused on 3 major developments: 1) Sudoku 7,316 easy (The Guardian Lifestyle) 2) Quick crossword No 17,482 (The Guardian Lifestyle) 3) Cryptic crossword No 30,009 (The Guardian Lifestyle) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance. Together they provide a representative view of the day in lifestyle news before diving into each full report.
Why it matters: This snapshot shows where lifestyle attention concentrated on 2026-05-17, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.
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Sudoku 7,316 easy
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Quick crossword No 17,482
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Cryptic crossword No 30,009
Sources: #3 The Guardian Lifestyle
Top 10 Stories
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#1 Score 77Sudoku 7,316 easyClick here to access the print version. Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
- #2 Score 70Quick crossword No 17,482
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- #3 Score 63Cryptic crossword No 30,009
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- #4 Score 51Does it matter how you prepare garlic for a recipe? A reader wants to know.
How you cut (or don’t cut) and cook the cloves can affect the pungency of the garlic — and the flavor of the dish you're cooking.
- #5 Score 41Solution to Evan Birnholz’s May 17 crossword, ‘Play Ball’
A puzzle that keeps you in the loop about the acting world.
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#6 Score 39The Only Memorial Day Recipes You’ll Need This YearJuicy watermelon, smoky flavors, and frozen desserts. The post Prepare the Grill—27 Memorial Day Recipes to Make for Your Next BBQ appeared first on Camille Styles .
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#7 Score 32Readers reply: Which organisms are most beneficial to humans without us realising?The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: You’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud? I was recently beset by a plague of clothes moths. After hours of research, I discovered the miracle that is the parasitic wasp, or Trichogramma evanescens – near-microscopic beasts that you can order online (in sachets of 2,000 wasps!), the life’s calling of which is to destroy clothes moth eggs. It made me wonder: is there anything else in our daily lives that is so beneficial to us, but which few of us have heard of – or realise is there? John Forward, Brixton Continue reading...
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#8 Score 30Ellie Simmonds looks back: ‘Without swimming, my mum says I would probably have ended up in jail!’The Paralympic swimmer on being a teenage champion, seeking her birth mother, and the joy of retirement Born in Walsall in 1994, Ellie Simmonds is a retired Paralympic swimmer and TV presenter. She moved to Swansea when she was 11 to train with the GB squad and at 13 was the youngest member of the British team at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, winning two gold medals. She won two further golds at London 2012, breaking two world records, and a fifth gold at Rio 2016. Since retiring in 2021, she has presented for BBC Sport, and her documentaries include A World Without Dwarfism? and Finding My Secret Family . Along with Stephen Fry and Mo Farah, she takes part in Celebration Day on 25 May, to honour those who are no longer with us. This is me in my grandma’s garden in Walsall. I have happy memories of being there – we would bake cakes or play outside all day. It’s a typical image of me aged four – energetic, non-stop and vibrant. Mum says I was never one to sit inside and watch TV, despite her efforts to occasionally get me to chill out on the sofa. Screen time wasn’t for me. Continue reading...
- #9 Score 23The do’s and don’ts of having an enviable bed
Expert tips on how to pick the right pillows, sheets and mattress, and how to make your bed more inviting.
- #10 Score 6Carolyn Hax: Husband abandoned their family but wants control of the narrative
Husband calls leaving their family and moving away “far more complicated” than the letter writer has explained to others.