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Enhanced by a special selection of challenging puzzles, an entertaining history of the corssword puzzle traces the origins and evolution of the modern puzzle from early word games and discusses the cluing and construction of puzzles, solving tips, websites from crosswords and research, and crossword tournaments and contests.

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Coral Amende is a veteran puzzle constructor whose crosswords and original word games have been featured in The New York Times (yes, the Sunday Edition), The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Magazine, where she has been a puzzle creator and editor since 1993. She is the author of the Random House Famous Name Finder, Hollywood Confidential, Country Confidential, and Rock Confidential, If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say....Come Sit Next to Me, and the RPG Game Collection.

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  • PublisherBerkley Hardcover
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 042518157X
  • ISBN 13 9780425181577
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  • Number of pages384
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