The Times 2 Crossword Collection 2

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Despite the fact that female editors have been important to crossword construction for many years, there has been a distinct drop in female crossword editors and constructors in the Shortz era. To combat this, two different projects — Women of Letters and The Inkubator — seek to highlight female crossword creators. LOHENGRIN - RHEINGOL[d] N*; Lohengrin is not part of the Ring Cycle, as Rheingold is - just another opera from Wagner. Me, I care little for the music or the man. Question marks often imply wordplay or puns. Usually, crossword clues are written with no punctuation at all, so if you see a question mark, it implies that the answer won’t be as straightforward as you’d think. Think of puns, wordplay, homonyms, and less-obvious answers.

SHANGRI-LA - (SHARING*) + reversed AL{l}. "supply" has got to be one of the best ever anagrinds, "in a supple way" rather than the noun it masquerades as On Dec. 21, 1913, in a Sunday edition of The New York World, the first-ever “word-cross” puzzle appeared. The first-ever cruciverbalist, or person skilled in the creation or solving of crossword puzzles, was a journalist named Arthur Wynne from Liverpool, who’d immigrated to the states. A few weeks after the first word puzzle of its kind appeared, a typesetting error changed the name “word-cross” to “cross-word,” and it’s been called a crossword puzzle since. HEXAM– HE + reversed MAX. Appears in Our Mutual Friend, right in chapter 1, messing about in boats on the ThamesPIGEON - PIG iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate product of the iron industry. EON=age. The New Yorker’s first-ever issue contains the observation that crossword-solvers have swarmed into the subway and L trains. The book Two Across by Jeff Bartsch tells the story of a romance in which two brainy people communicate their love via clever crosswords.

STAR{e} (look hard for) [missing English - e]. 'Stare meaning 'look hard' is fine but I'm having a problem equating it with 'look hard for'. Perhaps there's a context I haven't thought of? Containers imply that you’ll need to insert a word inside of another word, usually indicated in the clue by words like “within” or “surrounding.” I usually solve online, but this time I had to grab some paper to scribble out the long anagrams and try to decipher them. COUNTERPRODUCTIVE - *(CUT UP OVER DOCTRINE). The first one of a number of humungous anagrams. Mostly I biffed them and cannot swear to the accuracy of the anagrist in every case ..

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RESECT - not 100% sure, but I think this is REST (support, as in snooker) with EC (City of London, hence financial centre) inserted. These cryptic crosswords are sure to keep you engaged for a long time and be your best partners in your solitary times. The clues are twisted and they make you think about a hundred possible options making your brain work at lightning speed. This exercise makes your brain sharper and enhances your memory power.

The world’s largest published crossword, according to Guinness World Records, is published in Japan. It has 66,666 clues and measures 12 square miles. Make a first pass in the other direction, usually starting with 1 Down, solving for the most obvious clues first and making sure there aren’t discrepancies. Find some obvious clues, and make sure they fit together when written out.The fact that Richard Rogan is a true crossword puzzle aficionado is also evident from the fact that he runs the

Definitions underlined in bold italics, ( Abc)* indicating anagram of Abc, deletions and [] other indicators. Across Consider the all-important theme. Crossword writers frequently use themes or even tell stories with their clever puzzles. For instance, if the theme is ballet, an easy answer to “point of pain for dancers” might be “toe.” UNCHASTE - UNC(l)E replaces L='a bit' of Lunch, by HAS + T. I don't like the use of 'a bit' to mean 'the first letter'. I don't see where that comes from. PRANCER - RAN + C(old) inside PER (for each, every). Prancer supposedly being one of Santa's reindeer. ARCHIVAL - The ARAL sea is, sadly, no more. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, it is now, in one of our largest environmental tragedies, the Aralkum desert. For the purposes of this clue it contains CHIV, which is slang for a knife. Nho, but did know chivvy, which has the same root.Will Shortz, the famed crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times, begins his career. The next few decades are sometimes referred to by crossword fans as “the Shortz era.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary Crossword: The dictionary has a ton of word games, and this is just one of them.