The New York Times Tough Crossword Puzzle Omnibus: 200 Challenging Puzzles from the New York Times

by The New York Times

A Challenge That's Tough to Resist!

For fans who want a puzzling experience that will test their abilities to the utmost comes this giant collection of 200 of the toughest crosswords ever presented by The New York Times and editor Will Shortz. These Friday and Saturday puzzles feature some of the most virtuoso constructions, with few black squares and as many clusters of long words as possible. And under Shortz, the puzzles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312324413
• ISBN13: 9780312324414
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Planning a long vacation?

This collection will keep you busy scratching your head for weeks (months?). I prefer the larger puzzles with more clues/answers and smaller squares, so was a little disappointed in the size of each puzzle on first inspection. These are, however, very tough little puzzles and I'm sure will provide a challenge to most every crossword fanatic.

200 NYT Friday and Saturday puzzles from 1996-1998

This volume collects 200 consecutive Friday and Saturday New York Times crosswords originally published between October 25, 1996 and September 25, 1998. Anyone that can power through these challenging puzzles is truly a top solver. With one puzzle to a page both the grid and clues are pleasantly large. At a cost of less than a nickel per puzzle, this 'omnibus' edition offers great value with twice the content of a normal 'NYT Tough' collection.

Hard ones

Bored with doing the Friday crosswords in ink? try these. Use a pencil. They made me think.