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The "Daily Telegraph" How to Crack a Cryptic Crossword (Daily Telegraph) | 
 enlarge | Author: Val Gilbert
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £5.99
Buy New: £1.81
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 78914
Media: Paperback
Pages: 140
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0330488457
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780330488457
ASIN: 0330488457
Publication Date: September 21, 2001
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 Really helpful approach and FUN! April 3, 2003
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
I have been doing quick crosswords for years and although I was beginning to find them a bit simple I had always thought the cryptic ones too daunting, and all my previous attempts to learn had failed in confusion and disillusionment... but I decided to give them another go, using this book to start. What i really appreciated is that she weans you from quick crosswords onto the different sorts of cryptic clues one at a time, so that you can use the skills you already have to build on, and to verify your own progress. This book was really helpful and suited perfectly to someone who enjoys quick crosswords already, as you can enjoy the achievement of the example crosswords using many of the skills you already have, rather than spending ages staring at the page getting baffled and dissillusioned without really knowing where to start(which had been my previous experience of trying to learn cryptic technique.) An excellent gap-bridger.
Lots of example crosswords too, (30 altogether) and all with well explained answers in the back (an absolute must to have the explanation as well as the answer to every single clue if you're trying to learn, by the way- something to look out for!) It also contains a few "word banks" of commonly occuring oddities peculiar to cryptic crossword solving- again, worth looking out for in other books.
 Will help crossword beginners October 1, 2001
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is an introduction to completing cryptic crosswords, with special reference to the Daily Telegraph's (one of the more tractable). All the different types of clue are explained and illustrated, and there are special crosswords for you to practise on, where the types of clue are flagged. As ever, I'd have liked more examples, and more on the approach to take when tackling a crossword, and as yet I still haven't managed more than half a crossword - but that's more than a couple of weeks ago...it's a bargain.
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