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HomeEverything ElseWill ShortzThe New York Times Supersized Book of Sunday Crosswords: 500 Puzzles (New York Times Crossword Puzzles) |
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 Bought this for my Dad who loves doing crossword puzzles Nov 08, 2009
This supersized book of crossword puzzles is great for us people that find it hard to read small print.
great experience Oct 15, 2009
This was a very satisfying experience in that the book was in excellent shape, it was a fabulous value, and I received it in no time. Thanks!
 Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles! Sep 14, 2009
More puzzles than one can possibly do in a year, but too bad the pages are not perforated!
Nice book Aug 27, 2009
Besides a black marker line across the cover, this book was perfect for the price and came promptly!
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 Changing size of grid was a dirty trick Aug 22, 2009
As other have noted, many of these puzzles are difficult because there is no time/date reference. When they ask things about a 'new tv show' or 'latest world series', etc. it is quite a challenge as the dates of these puzzles could be anywhere from 1983 to 1998. The date of publication listed on each page for the crossword would be very helpful.
However I was going along OK even with the lack of time frame of the puzzles until I got to puzzle #56. All of a sudden the grid got very small. For the first 55 puzzles, the grid was 5" x 5". That was fine as there was plenty of room for all the questions and the crossword squares were a good size to write in the answers.
Starting with #56, the grid shrunk to 4" x 4". At first I thought it was just a mistake made on this one puzzle, but upon checking out the rest of the book I saw that all remaining crossword grids were only the small 4 X 4 size. Why in the world did they do this? When the grid was 5 X 5, there was plenty of room for the grid and questions all on the same page. After they made the grid smaller, there was a large amount of blank spaces on the pages as the questions did not take up all the room.
The size of the type of the questions did not get any larger when the grid size was reduced. All that happened was that there were inches and inches of blank spaces on each page. There was no reason for them to make the grid so small when they had plenty of room.
It is not only a strange thing to change the grid size in the middle of this book, but it is not playing fair with the reader/puzzle solver. When you open a book and check it out, you assume the size of the type, size of grid, etc. will remain the same for the entire book.
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