The Guardian Quick Crosswords 1: A collection of more than 200 entertaining puzzles (Guardian Puzzle Books)

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I don’t think there are any valid anagrams that work at 19 across, which is perhaps a sign of the state of Mr Stimpson’s mind. Biography: The Guardian is an award-winning British newspaper that consistently rates as the most-trusted newspaper in the country. Happily for us, Playfair codes are not uncrackable, which means that we later get an entire chapter in which Harriet and Lord Peter pore over sections of a Playfair grid.

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May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. Hugh Stephenson is the Guardian's crossword editor and has compiled all of the paper's previous crossword books. In it, I tell the story behind the development of each crossword: how I thought of the theme, the ideas that didn’t made it into print and the unlikely connections that emerged afterwards.I have a lot of admiration for the more prolific setters like Paul and (in their day) Araucaria and Rufus. I’m reeling them off at random: peculiar, diplomacy, courtesan, furnished, viscount, squander, sunlight, chasuble, clergyman, luminary, thousand, poverty, cherubim, treason, cabriolet, rheumatics, apostle, costumier, viaduct. So also are Mr Stimpson’s Crossword Puzzles, the clues to which the reader is advised not to be beguiled into attempting to solve. I do have a favourite pen: the Pilot G-Tec-C4, which makes an accurate line and allows for ludicrously small writing.

A crossword hidden by one of the characters unlocks the identity of the murderer responsible for a strikingly ruthless body count, including a chorister. This book contains more than 200 crosswords, perfect for a quick – but challenging – test of your deductive skills.but I feel a connection to it through the Listener’s occasional use of Playfair codes, which continued through that puzzle’s relocation to the Saturday Times and to this day. Lord Peter is fond of a puzzle too; as is often the case in whodunnits, being a solver of crosswords is handy when you are trying to solve a murder. The only thing we’ve found,” went on Lord Peter, “is Chambers dictionary, and we didn’t find that this evening because Miss Vane had found it before, while she was engaged in wasting her time on crosswords instead of getting on with her writing. Finally, you’ve moved to Ditchling , which in my head is identical to Itching Down – the locale of one of literature’s greatest books, The Giant Jam Sandwich. Once I have enough, I colour-code the ideas to make sure I have a variety of types of clue and ways of using the theme.