The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 3: The World’s Most Challenging Cryptic Crossword - Softcover
This supremely fiendish collection contains 35 jumbo-sized cryptic puzzles conceived to vex your wits and baffle your brain.
The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 3 is a reissue of The Third Book of Times Jumbo Crosswords, originally published in 1996.
The Times Jumbo Crossword was invented in 1970 by Edmund Akenhead, and his son, David, originally put this third collection together. Initially published just four times a year on bank holidays, since 1997 the crossword has appeared on a weekly basis.
Each crossword is based on a 27 by 27 square grid, complete with over 70 fiendish cryptic clues, and solutions which take the form of single words and whole phrases, some of them filling the entire width or height of the grid.
Test your linguistic prowess to its limit and give your brain the workout it has been waiting for.
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'The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 3' is a reissue of 'The Times Book of Jumbo Crosswords', originally published in 1985.
'The Times' Jumbo Crossword was invented in 1970 by Edmund Akenhead, who put together this first compilation of over 50 crosswords. Initially published just four times a year on bank holidays, since 1997 the crossword has appeared on a weekly basis.
Each crossword is based on a 27 by 27 square grid, complete with over 70 fiendish cryptic clues, and solutions which take the form of single words and whole phrases, some of them filling the entire width or height of the grid.
'The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 3' is being reissued at the same time as Books 1 and 2, as well as the brand-new 'The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 4', providing a published record of every jumbo crossword printed in 'The Times'.
A reissue of the third "Times" jumbo crossword book, originally published in 1996 and including over 30 puzzles. Initially published just four times a year on bank holidays, since 1997 the crossword has appeared on a weekly basis. Each crossword is based on a 27 by 27 square grid, complete with over 70 fiendish cryptic clues, and solutions which take the form of single words and whole phrases, some of them filling the entire width or height of the grid.
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- PublisherTimes Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0007144814
- ISBN 13 9780007144815
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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