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Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary; 2nd Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780671009779

  • ISBN10:

    067100977X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-01
  • Publisher: Pocket
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Summary

THE FASTEST, MOST CONVENIENT REFERENCE BOOK FOR CROSSWORD FANS AND PUZZLE CREATORS -- FROM BEGINNERS TO EXPERTSCompiled by crossword puzzle expert Jane Shaw Whitfield and the editors ofWebster's New World ,this splendid new volume is specially designed to help you find the word you want -- FAST! Unlike some other puzzle dictionaries, this one is more than just a simple listing of words of six letters or fewer, with no clues to meaning. This is a dictionary of terms actually found in a survey of thousands of puzzles. Here are words of two to fifteen or more letters, as well as phrases and compounds of two or more words -- just what you need to solve even the most challenging puzzles!

Table of Contents

ForewordGuide to the Use of This Book
Abbreviations Used in This Work
Crossword Puzzle
Dictionary
Tables
Books of the Bible
Chemical Elements
Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
Famous Names in Crossword Puzzles
Nations of the World
Selected Nobel Prize Winners
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
Shakespeare's Plays and Characters
Presidents and First Ladies of the United States
States of the United States
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Excerpts

Foreword

This new edition ofWebster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionaryrepresents a thorough revision and updating of the highly successful work originally compiled by Jane Shaw Whitfiels. Thousands of new clue words and answer terms have been aded from crossword puzzles published since last revision. Biographical and geographical entries are now completely up to date. Tables have been introduced to provide a particularly effective and convenient way to locate large bocks of related terms in one place. In addition, a user's guide created especially for this edition will assist readers in finding precisely the words they want quickly and easily.

Crossword puzzle dictionaries and crossword puzzle solvers share, predictably, some special characteristics. Both are distinguished by their breadth of vocabulary and by their unique intellectual focus on the relationship between clues and answers. The editors of Webster's New World dictionaries wish to acknowledge the contributions to this edition of one very gifted crossword puzzle enthusiast, Mr. Joe Forest of Sharonville, Ohio, whose insightful suggestions have been invaluable.

This all-new second edition remains in one respect unchanged, namely, it is, as Jane Shaw Whitfield wrote in her foreword to the first edition, dedicated "to all enthusiasts of crossword puzzles and to their creators."

Copyright © 1997 by Hungry Minds, Inc.

Excerpted from Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary by Jane Shaw Whitfield
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