As a child, David Astle's hero was the Riddler. Figuring out brainteasers like 'Where is a man drowned but still not wet?' (quicksand) and 'How many sides has a circle?' (two - the inside and the outside) became an obsession and, eventually, his life: his cryptic crosswords now appear in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald every week, to the delight and frustration of thousands.In Puzzled, Astle offers a helping hand to the perplexed and the infatuated alike, taking us on a personal tour into the secret life of words. Beginning with a Master Puzzle, he leads us through each of the clues, chapter by chapter, revealing the secrets of anagrams, double meanings, manipulations, spoonerisms and hybrid clues. More than a how-to manual and more than a memoir, Puzzled is a book for word junkies everywhere.
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A warm, funny and fascinating memoir told through a cryptic crossword
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David Astle is a Melbourne-based writer of non-fiction, fiction and drama. He co-hosts Letters and Numbers (the Australian version of Countdown) as the dictionary expert, and his crosswords appear in Australian papers The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
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An enjoyable, fast-moving book that ranges a bit wider than crosswords alone. There's lots of good information and I have found my crossword solving to have improved somewhat. The author does a fairly good job of covering international differences in crossword setting, but inevitably from the perspective of one tradition (UK) not everything is relevant.
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This book is much more than a how-to on cryptic crosswords and it will a welcome addition to the library of any cruciverbalist. It isn't as 'pure' as Ximenes' wonderful 'The Art of the Crossword' but that is long out of print.
Instead the author takes us around the world and over his whole life and his never-ending love affair with the English language in general (although English is not his only language) and crosswords in particular.
I have been a crossword solver for more years than I care to recall and still learned a great deal from this excellent and reasonably-priced book; I would recommend it without a moment's hesitation to anyone who loves tthe challenge of an English cryptic crossword - whether tyro or expert.
Five stars and an enormous 'Thank you' to the author.
Instead the author takes us around the world and over his whole life and his never-ending love affair with the English language in general (although English is not his only language) and crosswords in particular.
I have been a crossword solver for more years than I care to recall and still learned a great deal from this excellent and reasonably-priced book; I would recommend it without a moment's hesitation to anyone who loves tthe challenge of an English cryptic crossword - whether tyro or expert.
Five stars and an enormous 'Thank you' to the author.
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