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The "Times" Jumbo Cryptic Crossword: Bk. 8 (Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword) (Paperback)

by Richard Browne (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Times Books; illustrated edition edition (2 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007264496
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007264490
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 47,003 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This supremely fiendish collection contains 50 jumbo-sized cryptic puzzles conceived to vex your wits and baffle your brain. Selected by The Times Crossword Editor, Richard Browne, this original collection will challenge even the most experienced crossword buff. The ultimate and only jumbo cryptic crosswords available, these puzzles will really push you to go that extra step. With unique grids of 23 x 23 squares (in comparison to the standard 15 x 15 grid), they will require serious word power and brain bending to complete. Test your linguistic prowess to its limit and give your brain the workout it has been waiting for.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The same but bigger?, 22 Oct 2008
Everything in my review about the current Times crossword series (The "Times" Crossword: Bk. 12 (Times Crossword)) applies to this book too. There are two significant differences. On a humdrum level, the paper used in the Jumbo books is better - whiter and tougher than in the other books. More important in crossword terms, the daily Times puzzle never uses multiple entries as a way of squeezing in answers longer than 15 letters. So if you want to see these in a Times puzzle (and good clues for them), the Jumbo is the only place.

Stuff about "brain-bending" and the like in the blurb for the Jumbo books suggests that these puzzles are more difficult than the daily paper ones. As someone who has timed himself on hundreds of each, my impression is that once the bigger grid is taken into account, any extra difficulty is accounted for by three things: finding where to write stuff in a bigger grid, the use of long phrases that you haven't seen before, and possibly a higher average word length, so fewer familiar short words. The clues seem no harder than those in the daily paper puzzles - the setters are the same people, after all.

The bigger grids seem to encourage a few more themes in these puzzles - one of the first ten has several types of bird among the answers, for example.

Retention of the precious fifth star is for the same reason as with the other books - no explanations of clues with the answers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good product, 17 Jun 2009
By Ms. W. Callagan (UK) - See all my reviews
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After a delay in delivery, I finally received this book. It's an excellent book, with very good crosswords. Buy it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cryptic Crosswords, 29 May 2009
By Michael Hunt "Mike" (Coventry, UK) - See all my reviews
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As with the whole series, to date, of these Jumbo Cryptic Crosswords, the general standard of the puzzles is excellent and they provide hours of fun and frustration!
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