Author: The SunPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008404222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Sun Two-Speed Crossword
Author: The SunPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008312770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Sun presents a cracking collection of its unique two-speed crossword puzzle. With 160 quick and cryptic style crosswords, you have everything you need for a word workout in this fantastic crossword puzzle.The two-speed crossword puzzles appear daily in The Sun, Britain's bestselling daily newspaper.Providing a unique challenge amongst crosswords, each puzzle has a set of cryptic and coffee-time (definition-style) clues, so that you can choose either to take your time, or to head for the speedy conclusion, with both sets of clues leading to the same answer.These crosswords do not rely on topical knowledge and can be enjoyed at any time, any place. This collection of 160 crosswords will appeal to anyone seeking a fun and informative break from everyday life.
Author: National Puzzlers' League Cryptic Crosswords
Author: Joshua KosmanPublisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
ISBN: 9780812936605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The National Puzzlers' League (NPL) was founded in 1883 and is the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world. For over 100 years, crosswords and other word puzzles that appear in the NPL's monthly magazine, The Enigma, could be enjoyed only by NPL members. Now, for the first time, a selection of the league's favorite cryptic crosswords is available in book form for puzzle fans everywhere to enjoy. Unlike regular crossword puzzles, each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts--one that's straightforward and one that involves one or more types of wordplay--and part of the fun is determining which part is which and what type of wordplay is involved. For example, Shoestring allowances lead to tears (11) is a cryptic clue for LACERATIONS. The straightforward part of the clue is tears, which is a definition for LACERATIONS. The wordplay part of the clue is Shoestring allowances which can be expressed as LACE + RATIONS which lead to LACERATIONS. The number in parentheses tells you the number and length of the answer words--in this case, it's one 11-letter word. Another example, with a different type of wordplay is Rearrange, rearrange ram's front (9) which is a cryptic clue for TRANSFORM. Rearrange is a straightforward definition of TRANSFORM and rearrange ram's front tells you to rearrange, or anagram, the nine letters in ram's front giving you the nine-letter word TRANSFORM. One of most fascinating things about cryptics is that the clues are a combination of tremendous creativity and imagination, on one hand, and strict, formal rules, on the other. This book contains 45 variety cryptics from members of the NPL, many of them by distinguished puzzle authors, as well as a foreword by Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword editor and the NPL's official historian PuzzleMeter: Difficulty--Very Difficult; Style--Contemporary]
The Sun Jumbo Quizword Collection
Author: HarperCollins PublishersPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007193912
Category : Crossword puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every Saturday the Sun publishes a large general knowledge crossword - the Quizword. The Quizword provides a real challenge and this book brings together over 100 crosswords to tax the enthusiast. The Quizword is a sort of pub quiz in which the questions have been turned into clues. The subjects covered include music, television, sport, radio, history, geography, mythology and current affairs. Of course with a pub quiz you have to know the answers right away but with a Quizword you have the time to take up the challenge and hunt down the right answer. Just to give a flavour, here some examples of clues: BBC TV series featuring computer-generated re-creations of extinct monsters (7,4,6)Hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger (5)Capital of Cameroon (7)What David Attenborough describes in his series as the Blue Planet (5)Gorgon of Greek myth, sister of Medusa and Stheno (7)Former federation of southeast Asian kingdoms that become a part of Malaysia (5,6)Pop superstar who returned to the charts in 2001 with The Music's No Good Without You (4
The Sun Two-Speed Crossword Collection 9: 160 Two-In-one Cryptic and Coffee Time Crosswords (the Sun Puzzle Books)
Author: The SunPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008472634
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The two-speed crossword puzzles appear daily in The Sun, Britain's bestselling daily newspaper. Providing a unique challenge amongst crosswords, each puzzle has a set of cryptic and coffee-time, quick definition-style clues, so that you can choose either to take your time, or to head for the speedy conclusion, with both sets of clues leading to the same answer. These crosswords do not rely on topical knowledge and can be enjoyed at any time, any place. This collection of 160 crosswords will appeal to anyone seeking a fun and informative break from daily life.
Learn How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords: A Course for Beginners
Author: Henry HowarthPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0992738202
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This A4 book teaches beginners how to solve cryptic crosswords. It starts with the simplest ideas and easiest types of cryptic clue, and gradually builds to the advanced aspects of clue solving. This approach makes learning easier. Written explanations are supported by diagrams, each topic is followed by exercises to reinforce the key learning points, and every chapter ends with practice puzzles to consolidate skill development. The book will provide you with a comprehensive, structured learning route to an enjoyable and stimulating pastime.
Author: Variational Text Linguistics
Author: Christoph SchubertPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110443554
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Owing to the ever-increasing possibilities of communication, especially with the advent of modern communication technologies, register analysis offers a constantly widening range of research opportunities. Still, research has mainly concentrated on well-established and frequent registers such as newspaper articles, while many descriptive and theoretical issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated. This volume gives a state-of-the-art insight into register studies and points out emerging trends as well as new directions for future research. Furthermore, it provides a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received an appropriate amount of attention so far. In particular, it deals with specialized offline and online registers, cross-register comparison as well as regional, contrastive, and diachronic register variation. In parallel to the new discipline of variational pragmatics, this volume aims to foster the discipline of ‘variational text linguistics’ and to initiate fundamental investigations in this area. This field of research provides new insights into the concept of register, since it covers both functional and regional types of textual variation.
The Sun Two-Speed Crossword Collection 4
Author: The SunPublisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008214272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Sun presents this corker of a collection of its unique two-speed crossword puzzle. With 160 quick and cryptic style crosswords, you have everything you need for a word workout in Britain's bestselling crossword puzzle The two-speed crossword puzzles appear daily in The Sun, Britain's bestselling daily newspaper. Providing a unique challenge amongst crosswords, each puzzle has a set of cryptic and coffee-time (definition-only) clues, so that you can choose either to take your time, or to head for the speedy conclusion, with both sets of clues leading to the same answer. These crosswords do not rely on topical knowledge and can be enjoyed at any time, any place. This collection of 160 crosswords will appeal to anyone seeking a fun and informative break from daily life.
