The Sunday Times Puzzle Books The Sunday Times Cryptic Crossword Book 1: 100 challenging crossword puzzles (The Sunday Times Puzzle Books) - The Times Mind Games; Peter Biddlecombe (Paperback) 02-09-2021

The ideal gift for crossword enthusiasts this Christmas. A compilation of 100 cryptic crosswords from The Sunday Times, one of the greatest crossword puzzle challenges. These brainteasers will test all cryptic crossword lovers to the limit! Our language, with its tens of thousands of words, intricate grammatical construction and quirky idiomatic phrases, has proved an almost inexhaustible source for cryptic clues. Foreign words are constantly being absorbed into our language, into our dictionaries and then into crossword puzzles. All the puzzles are set out in an easy-to-use, double-page spread to view layout, with all the solutions clearly laid out at the back of the book.