The Random House Guide to Cryptic Crosswords - Softcover

Cox, Emily; Rathvon, Henry

9780812935455: The Random House Guide to Cryptic Crosswords

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812935454 ISBN 13: 9780812935455

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Solving cryptics is a challenge; creating them is a bigger one. In this delightful how-to book, cryptic crossword doyens Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon demystify it all. They explain, in detail, how cryptic clues work in a step-by-step tutorial--enhanced by 65 of their puzzles, 50 of them from The Atlantic Monthly.

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About the Author:

EMILY COX & HENRY RATHVON create half of the Sunday crosswords for The Boston Globe (alternating with Henry Hook) and all of the acrostics for The New York Times.

From the Inside Flap:

ive "how-to" manual to introduce beginners to the world of cryptic crosswords, as well as a collection of the best of Cox & Rathvon's puzzles from Atlantic Monthly -- published here in book form for the first time.

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