Araucaria has been delighting and confounding cryptic crossword fans for almost 50 years. Now solvers can pit their wits against the master with 60 never-before-published jigsaw crosswords. Jigsaw crosswords are Araucaria’s own invention and are challenging cryptic crosswords where you first have to solve the clues and then fit the solutions into the grid (without the help of numbers).
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'No compiler has given more pleasure to more people'
'The most infuriatingly ingenious setter working today'
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John Graham’s first published crossword puzzle appeared in the Manchester Guardian in 1958. He has set for The Guardian ever since, taking the pseudonym Araucaria, meaning 'monkey puzzle tree'. He also compiles crosswords for the Financial Times as Cinephile, and founded the crossword magazine 1 Across in 1984. He was awarded the MBE in 2005.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By C. Gent
Format:Paperback
These puzzles are awful mental torture, made worse by the tantalizing fact that the pain can be relieved by sneaking a look at the solutions, AKA cheating. Clues are not numbered: the answers have to be fitted jigsaw-wise in the grid by deduction. The earlier grids have a few letters pre-filled in to ward off utter despair. Later ones have letters around the periphery, but you have to solve elaborate cryptic clues to get them. The grid clues themselves never cease to amaze me with their ingenuity and originality. However, if you're a beginner, forget it! These puzzles are for mighty intellects like what I have got.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By G
Format:Paperback
Very challenging if you are used to straightforward cryptics - different formats and keys to solving...nice change
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By J. Brooker
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I've bought Chambers Araucaria Volume 3. These are literary-themed crosswords, many of them alphabet jigsaws. You will need some web research and a dictionary of quotations.
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Araucaria rules
I have been solving - or attempting to solve - this gentleman's puzzles for about 30 years. He brings a lot of fun to his puzzles.
Published 5 months ago by kooaukee
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I sent this book to someobody else as a present, and so am not able to comment meaningfully on it.
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by Dr. Christopher H. Wilson
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