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Bread-and-butter for the cryptic lover
If you know and love cryptic crossword puzzles, this book really doesn't need a review. You already know Henry Hook and his puzzles, and know whether you like them or not.Read more

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Excellent Book
This is a great book which makes you laugh after solving each cryptogram, and I've been doing a few cryptograms a day for the last month. One can do it without clues or opt to have one or two clues.
Have lots of fun with codes.
This inexpensive, sturdy, entertaining book contains 400 humorous, comical and sometimes even witty quotes, drawn from a myriad of personalities and encoded in challenging substitution cipher, guaranteed to keep you busy for hours.
A fun book but definitely NOT error free
At this writing, I have worked 283 puzzles and have found three of them to have errors (puzzles 59, 256 and 272). While solving the puzzles has been fun, it's disconcerting to stumble across an error.Read more

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Great crosswords for novices
First off, I will say that I casually do crosswords. I do the New York Times most Mondays and some Tuesdays as they easier than their mid- to late-week counterparts. The New York Times crossword puzzles get increasingly more difficult each day starting on Monday. I am not a super solver, but enjoy working through these puzzles and ones from other newspapers when able.
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Fun but frustrating
Being a major Star Trek fan for many years, I was really looking forward to this crossword puzzle book.And, in most ways, it is enjoyable to work these puzzles.But, there is Star Trek information in these puzzles that are wrong, especially certain spellings.I have checked multiple entries against Star Trek reference material that I have and from the official Star Trek web-site, and sometimes these puzzle clues/answers are wrong.Also, as mentioned by someone else, these puzzles are very challenging.If you don't have some detailed ST reference material, you will probably be pretty frustrated.Some of the answers to the entries are two or more words, but the author doesn't tell you that.And some of the non-Star Trek questions are very, very obscure.But, I've learned alot!I'm just not sure that I'll buy any more of this author's crossword books.

As Spock would say "Fascinating"
Although crossword puzzle books aren't my normal fare, being a fan of all things Star Trek and being a collector of Star Trek treasures automatically put this on the list of things to purchase.Read more

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A little Zen and a lot of crosswords
Nikki Katz's Zen and the Art of Crossword Puzzles is part of a series of Zen-related hobby books published by Adams Media (Zen and the Art of Knitting, etc.). In her contribution to the series Katz provides thumbnail histories of both crossword puzzles (first published in 1913) and Zen philosophy (considerably older), and she frequently points to intersections between the two--how Zen principals can be used to make one's crossword experiences more pleasant, how solving crosswords can be experienced as a kind of "working meditation." But Katz's book is hardly all Zen all the time. She discusses a great number of topics in the book's ten chapters: crossword solving rituals and methodologies, hints for solving puzzles, an explanation of British cryptic crosswords (for which I am especially grateful), the health benefits of puzzle solving, the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, crossword-related poetry and paintings and fiction (specifically, the Nero Blanc series of crossword mysteries). Some of what Katz has to say will be too lightweight for hard-core cruciverbalists, but there should be something new in the book for just about everyone.
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Definately for Dummies
I am a new fan of crossword puzzles, having finally massed the knowledge to complete them.The puzzles are fun and they make for great group activities.The puzzles seem to focus on a broad range of knowledgecovering just about everything you can imagine. ... Read more

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