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The New York Times Tough Crossword Puzzles Volume 11: 100 of the Most Challenging Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

 
 
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The New York Times Tough Crossword Puzzles Volume 11: 100 of the Most Challenging Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

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Challenge your mind with the toughest crosswords in the universe!

Millions of fans know that the New York Times crosswords are the best puzzles in the world. Under the leadership of editor Will Shortz, the puzzles have featured increased wordplay and a hip, contemporary attitude. Shortz has also expanded the difficulty spectrum of the puzzles by making the easy ones easier and the tough ones tougher—so these 100 puzzles are some of the most difficult ever to be published.

-100 mind-bending crosswords from Friday and Saturday editions of the New York Times
- Appearing for the first time in book form

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Product Details:
Author: The New York Times
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: June 20, 2003
Language: English
ISBN: 0312314566
Package Length: 10.7 inches
Package Width: 8.3 inches
Package Height: 0.3 inches
Package Weight: 0.55 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 5 reviews
 
 

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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:

5The Best and Toughest American Crosswords  Jan 14, 2005
By J Scott Morrison
Ever since Will Shortz took over the New York Times Crossword puzzles they have gotten harder, mostly because he and his constructors have an almost inhuman ability to come up with wickedly misleading (and often funny) clues. And the themes they come up with for their puzzles are often the sort that stump you until you finally make a breakthrough and then you chortle in delight (or groan loudly if it involves a pun). But that's OK. I'm at an age that I figure if I can continue to do the toughest Times puzzles I'm holding Alzheimer's at bay.

Times puzzles get harder as you progress from Monday through Saturday. In this book are the tough Friday and Saturday puzzles. A lot of people think the Sunday puzzle would be the hardest, but it's not. It's simply larger than the daily puzzles.

The pages are about 8.5 X 11 inches. What I tend to do is tear a page out (with a puzzle both front and back) and affix it to a clipboard so I can do them with a sharp pencil and not have the underlying pages make it too soft for a crisp pencil mark. But one can simply do them in the book.

These are definitely the best classic American-style crossword puzzles available.

Scott Morrison

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

5Crossword puzzle review  Mar 19, 2006
By H. D. Youngpeter "DY"
Challenging crossword puzzles are hard to find anywhere but at Amazon.com. I am a third-generation puzzle solver, and now I understand my Grandmother asking for puzzles "the harder, the better".

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

5New York Times Tough Crossword Puzzles Volume 11  Mar 09, 2006
By J. Gates "puzzle lover"
This is an excellent puzzle book. The puzzles are extremely challenging but not impossible to do. A lot of fun.

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5NY Times tough crosswords  Mar 09, 2008
By Robert W. Kinzer "martini"
Excellent puzzle book. This is the third one I've used. Only for the serious crossword worker!

5Tough Puzzles  Sep 07, 2009
By Patricia Hepley "Pat"
These are very good, tough crossword puzzles. If you want something that makes you think, this is the ticket.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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