100 Clever Crosswords (Paperback)

by Thomas Joseph (Author)

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Product Description
100 clever and challenging crosswords that will give your brain a workout. Come up with answers to "Getz of music" (4 letters), "New Age token" (7 letters), "Coach Parseghian" (3 letters), and "cowed" (11 letters). Clues draw on your knowledge of geography, history, people, and culture, and you'll have to find synonyms, abbreviations, definitions, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806917571
• ISBN-13: 978-0806917573
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #861,498 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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124 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, medium difficulty crossword book. Great fun!, January 15, 1999

By	[e-mail] (California, USA)) - See all my reviews

Thomas Joseph is hands-down, my absolute favorite master of crossword puzzles. My only complaint is that he doesn't have dozens of books available for purchase! His puzzle is featured daily in our local newspaper, and is the last thing I do after reading the entire paper (always save the best for last). I got "100 Clever Crosswords" for Christmas this year and had flown through 20 puzzles on Christmas Day before I realized I'd have to pace myself or use up all the fun before the week was out!

Thomas Joseph's crossword puzzles are easy enough to complete without having to dig through reference guides, but challenging enough that you have to work through the entire puzzle to get the answers to a few difficult clues. Completing his puzzles brings a great deal of satisfaction, but also a little sadness that it's done.

Mr. Joseph -- please, please, please! publish more of these wonderful books!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Clever Indeed!, January 6, 2008

By	J. R. Iverson (East Rutherford, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great book! My husband and I love doing a puzzle or two from this book when we have a little extra time together. We find it is the perfect level of puzzle for us . . . the puzzles are challenging, yet not impossible (to give you an idea, we're both college graduates who enjoy word games, but we find the NY Times puzzles get a little too difficult on the weekends). Thomas Joseph's puzzles are also fun because they are clever, as the title of this book suggests. Each puzzle has at least two longer answers that correspond with each other, making a sort of theme for the puzzle (i.e. punching bag and sleeping bag, Manic Monday and Ruby Tuesday). I hope you find the right book for you -- this one's perfect for us!

1.0 out of 5 stars get an education, Mr. Joseph., May 15, 2007

By	hsuhsiuhui - See all my reviews

Put simply, 'slue' is not a synonym of 'rotate.' Furthermore, to judge from the amount of recycling in these 'puzzles,' I estimate Mr. Joseph's vocabulary to consist of not more than six or seven hundred words, approximately the same as my two-year-old daughter's.