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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: 2004-09-04

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50 great New York Times crosswords that will make you chuckle, chortle, groan, or moan!As regular puzzlers know well, crossword puzzles can be funny, full of wordplay, puns, jokes, and verbal trickery of all kinds. Under the editorship of crossword legend Will Shortz, The New York Times has become particularly renowned for its fun-filled, pun-oriented puzzles.Now Will Shortz has chosen 50 of his top picks for the most side-splitting puzzles from the pages of the The New York Times and collected them all in this volume. Once you start these crosswords, you won't be able to stop (laughing, that is)!* Special introduction by Will Shortz* Puzzles chosen by Will Shortz for their inventive themes, featuring jokes, puns, and all sorts of word-related fun* Spiral binding lets pages lie flat for easy puzzling

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Summary: A Pet Peeve
Comment: I enjoy puzzles with a funny or punny theme, but many, many of these puzzles contain a pet peeve of mine. I much prefer that the longer theme answers be self-contained to give a decent chance of solving them; in this book, however, the theme answers are all part of a single quote, or even worse, a made-up quip. Half the fun of solving a themed puzzle is figuring out what the theme IS, then solving each clue. I would say about half of these puzzles have clues that consist of "Quip, part 1" or whatever. Boring!

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Summary: The cover is the funniest part of this book.
Comment: I did not find these puzzles either challenging or amusing - would have been better off just to buy a penny press book off the grocery store shelf.

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Summary: The New York Times Will Shortz's Funniest Crossword Puzzles
Comment: The crossword puzzle is great. It is fun to work and gives me quite a few challenges. It is a great mind stimulant.

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Summary: Not So Hot
Comment: I didn't like these puzzles much. They had some amusement value, but my chief complaint was that they were too easy. Maybe even easier than the Monday New York Times puzzle.

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Summary: Funny but disappointing
Comment: This is a nice selection of fun crosswords, but they are too easy.

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