The New York Times Crosswords to Boost Your Brainpower: 75 Crosswords to Sharpen Your Mind, Improve Your Crossword Skills, and Increase Your Vocabular

by The New York Times

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312320337
• ISBN13: 9780312320331
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Perfect for New Puzzle Solvers

Great for newer puzzle fans. There's helpful clues about clues, how they're written and how to interpret them. Of course, there are plenty of the great NYT puzzles, too.

Bought it and tried it

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.