List Books » New York Times Will Shortz's Funniest Crossword Puzzles: From the Pages of The New York Times
Authors: Will Shortz, New York Times Staff
ISBN-13: 9780312324896, ISBN-10: 0312324898
Format: Other Format
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: REV
Will Shortz has been crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
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
"The prince of crossword puzzlers."