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"Daily Telegraph" 80 Years of Cryptic Crosswords | 
 enlarge | Author: Val Gilbert
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 10648
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1405049235
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9781405049238
ASIN: 1405049235
Publication Date: November 5, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good book, but watch out for some tricky puzzles April 6, 2005
Mr. Peter Biddlecombe (Bucks, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The presentation can't be faulted (so much easier to idly jot answers on the sofa when you're holding a hardback!) and the 'once a decade' sections of material about things like the puzzle's setters and editors are interesting.But the use of one puzzle per year shows just how much this puzzle has changed over the years. I'm supposed to be very good at this game, but there are some puzzles in the first couple of decades where I'm stumped by many of the clues. Perhaps the best method is to start at the back of the book and travel gradually backwards in time, so that you begin with puzzles of a more familiar style.
 80 years of pleasure December 21, 2004
S. Chudha (London, United Kingdom)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is not only a fantastically presented book, the content is flawless too. Starting with the first Telegraph Cryptic Crossword from June 1925 this book races through the development of the cryptic crossword over the last 80 years - lots of entertaining, baffling and thrilling puzzles here combined with anecdote and entertaining explanations of clues. Loved it!
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