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This article is from the Crosswords
FAQ, by James A. Lundon (jlundon@xstacy.enet.dec.com) with
numerous contributions by others.
5) What books are there on (solving) crosswords?
%T Chambers Crossword Manual (Second Edition)
%A Don Manley
%P Chambers
%Y 1992
%N 0-550-19034-1
I have to plug Manley's book as the best introductory book about solving
non definition based crosswords I have read. It goes through all the major
clue types and there's even a section about setting your own crosswords.
%T Observer AZED Crosswords
%A Jonathan Crowther
%P Chambers
%Y 1991
%N 0-550-19032-5
%T The AZED Book of Crosswords
%A Jonathan Crowther
%P Pan
%Y 1977
%N 0-330-25227-5
%T The ABC of Crosswords (Originally: Teach Yourself Crosswords)
%A Alec Robins (The Guardian's 'Custos'/Observer's 'Everyman')
%P Corgi
%Y 1981
%N 0-552-11843-5
%T The Modern Crossword Dictionary
%A Norman G. Pulsford
%P Pan
%Y 1967
%N 0-330-63128-4
%T Chambers Words
%P Chambers
%Y 1985
%N 0-550-19010-4
%T Chambers Backwords for Crosswords
%P Chambers
%Y 1986
%N 0-550-19012-0
%T Chambers Anagrams
%P Chambers
%Y 1985
%N 0-550-19011-2
%T The Strange World of the Crossword
%A Roger Millington
%P Book Club Associates
%Y 1975
%N
%T The Crossword Phrase Dictionary
%A R.J. Edwards
%P Stanley-Paul
%Y 1981
%N 0-09-143340-1
%T The Newnes Crossword Dictionary
%A J.M. Bailie
%P Newnes Books
%Y 1984
%N 0-600-31923-7
%T Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword
%A D.S. Macnutt
%P Methuen
%Y 1966
%N
%T The Ninth Book of Sunday Times Crosswords (Solver's Guide)
%A Elizabeth and Derek Jewell
%P Penguin
%Y 1989
%N
%T The ANAGRAM Dictionary
%A Michael Curl
%P Robert Hale
%Y 1982
%N 0-7091-9674-1
%T Best of AZED Crosswords /* Selected from Azed 1-200 */
%A Jonathan Crowther
%P Chambers in association with the Observer
%Y 1989
%N 0-550-19030-9
%T The (Almost) Impossible Crossword Book
%A Gyles Brandreth
%P Sphere
%Y 1984
%N 0-7221-1864-3
%T The Complete Guide to Cryptic Crosswords
%A J A Coleman
%P Collins
%Y 1989
%N 0-00-434570-3
%T Longman Crossword Solver's Dictionary
%A Anne Bradford
%P Longman
%Y 1986
%N 0-582-89301-1
%T The Book of Lewis Carroll Crosswords
%A Edited by Alfreda Blanchard
%P Lewis Carroll Society
%Y 1992
%N
%T Cryptic Crossword Solver
%A Jennifer Chandler
%P Allen and Unwin Sydney
%Y 1991
%N 1-86373-043-5
%T Cryptic Crosswords and How To Solve Them
%A Michael Kindred and Derrick Knight
%P Chambers
%Y 1993
%N 0-550-19036-8
%T How to Solve A Crossword
%A Colin Parsons
%P Coronet Paperback
%Y 1988
%N 0-340-43079-6
%T Crossword Dictionary
%A Dawn Garrick
%P Ace/Stoneshire Books
%Y 1984
%N
%T Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
%A Tophi Books
%P
%Y
%N 0-86288-170-6
%T Crosswords: How to solve them
%A Ruth Crisp
%P Hodder & Stoughton
%Y 1992
%N 0-340-57398-8
%T Harper's Magazine Cryptic Puzzle Book 1st Edition
%A E. R. Galli and Richard Maltby, Jr.
%P Franklin Square Press
%Y 1992
%N 1-879957-05-1
%T The Atlantic Monthly Puzzler Book Volume 1
%A Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
%P The Atlantic Monthly Company
%Y 1992
%N ?
%T A Pleasure in Words
%A Eugene T. Maleska
%P Simon & Schuster
%Y 1981
%N ?
%T Creative Cruciverbalists
%A Helene Hovanec
%P William Morrow & Company, Inc.
%Y 1988
%N ?
%T Across and Down
%A Eugene T. Maleska
%P Simon & Schuster
%Y 1984
%N ?
%T Crossword Crosstalk
%A Barry Tunick & Sylvia Bursztyn
%P Capra Pres
%Y 1988
%N ?
%T Crossword Puzzle Compendium
%A Editors of Consumer Guide
%P Beekman House
%Y ?
%N 0-517-294656
%T The Compleat Cruciverbalist
%A Rosen and Kurzban
%P ?
%Y ?
%N ?
%T Chambers Dictionary on CD-ROM
%A Chambers - £55 Stg
%P Chambers
%Y 1994
%N 0-550-10260-4
I am certain there are a lot more books out there, especially from our
American cousins. Please, if you have more information on books, let me
know? The incentive is that I will include your name at the bottom of
the FAQ. Lasting fame, eh :-).
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