Crosswords and Coffee

When you can't be bothered to go to the gym on a lazy Sunday, the least you can do is engage in some mental gymnastics with your morning newspaper's crossword page. From the rainy-day melancholy of Elliott Smith's “Waltz, No. 2 (XO)” to Cat Power's beautifully spare cover of The Velvet Underground's “I Found a Reason,” here are some tastefully unobtrusive but intellectually stimulating indie-pop tunes to inspire your inner word-nerd.