Stanley Newman's Movie Mania Crosswords: The '90s »

Stanley Newman has created or edited thousands of puzzles and scores of puzzle books and has regularly contributed original puzzles to numerous publications, including the New York Times. He is the crossword editor for the New York newspaper Newsday, whose puzzles are syndicated throughout the United States. He hosts puzzle cruises and lectures at the Smithsonian. His most recent book of original puzzles is the Random House Puzzles & Games title Stanley Newman's American Originals Crosswords (on sale 11/6/05). Stan's 100th book, Stanley Newman's Opus 100 Crosswords, was published in June 2005.

As a puzzle solver, Stan holds the world's record, set in 1996 under Guinness Book conditions, for the fastest completion of a New York Times crossword: 2 minutes, 14 seconds.

Film buffs will love Stanley Newman's newest volume of original, themed crosswords which focuses on "new classics." Like the previous titles in this pop culture collection, Movie Mania: The '90s is more than a puzzle book. Highlights include:

• 50 brand-new crosswords, each about a blockbuster film
• Films representing a wide variety of genres and subjects—from Saving Private Ryan to Ghost and from Shakespeare in Love to There's Something About Mary
• A quote from each movie
• Interesting factoids about each movie
• Hundreds of film-related clues

Every movie-going puzzler will discover some favorite films in this volume, which is an ideal companion to Screen Legend Crosswords and the original Movie Mania Crosswords.

[PuzzleMeter: Difficulty—Medium;
Style—Contemporary]