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	• The New York Times Crosswords to Boost Your Brainpower: 75 Crosswords to Sharpen Your Mind, Improve Your ... The New York Times St. Martin's Griffin, 2003 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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I bought the book and love it! Its great for a novice or experienced crossword puzzle solver. Just have patience, and some quality reference books and you be occupied.

Hints From Will Shortz - Better Than Cheating!

This is a terrific introduction to New York Times crosswords.

The seventy-five daily crosswords here run the gamut of difficulty, beginning with the easiest and going all the way to the tough end-of-the-week puzzles. And for each crossword, there are a few asterisked clues with hints in the back of the book. These hints give us information that most of us had to figure out on our own the hard way, through trial and error (mostly error). For example, Shortz tells us that clues always agree in number and tense. Seems obvious now, but I didn't know that until I'd muscled through some puzzles. A question mark after a clue means a tricky (possibly punny) answer, NYTimes puzzles don't tell you if an answer consists of more than one word, well you get the idea.

Even though New York Times Crosswords to Boost Your Brainpower is an excellent intro to Shortz-era NYTimes puzzles, it is also a lot of fun for old-timers, too.

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What's a 10-letter word for "A way to have fun and sharpen your mind, too?" As recent studies, including one in the Journal of the American Medical Association, have found, one answer to the above clue is "Crosswords." Not only loads of fun, The New York Times crossword puzzles can also stimulate your mind and improve your vocabulary!

- With special hints and tips from Will Shortz to help solvers boost their crossword solving power-and their brainpower as well
- 75 puzzles arranged from easy to hard: a challenge for all puzzlers from novice to advanced
- Edited and with an introduction by crossword great Will Shortz
- Author bylines allows fans to get to know their favorite constructors

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