No wonder it’s America’s number one pastime--researchers have found that doing crossword puzzles will improve your memory when you’re older, and, if you’re a kid, improve your vocabulary and better your chances of getting into the best colleges. What makes this collection special? The answers are fairly common words and phrases, but the clues are diabolically difficult. They’re full of mischievous misdirections, trivia, puns, and other trickery. Try these clues: “Star witness” (ten letters), “Change of heart” (fifteen letters), 2001 Hollywood Walk of Fame star recipient (eight letters). Answers: ASTRONOMER, ORGAN TRANSPLANT, DEAR ABBY. Warning: the last 10 are the hardest of all.

Cranium-Crushing Crosswords

Humor & Entertainment

Longo, Frank

Puzzles & Games

Puzzlewright

Here’s a puzzle book with a twist: the crossword clues are right in the boxes themselves, next to the blank squares waiting to be filled in, and with little arrows indicating which way the answers go. That means no more going back and forth from the grids to the clues on the side, constantly losing your place. Crossword mavens love this style, because they’d rather spend their time actually solving the puzzles than searching for the right little numbers. And the crosswords are great too: just challenging enough to enjoy, with no arcane words or sneaky clues to spoil the pleasure.

Point & Solve Crosswords

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Book by Longo, Frank, Simpson, Fraser, Stickels, Terry

The Brainiac's Puzzle Book

Stickels, Terry

Simpson, Fraser

Sterling

You always said you were smart. Now here's a chance to prove it, with the most challenging crossword collection ever.There are very few black squares in these crosswords, which means that most of the answers are long. Some of the information required challenges every facet of your general knowledge. And even when the answers aren't hard, the clues can be quite tricky. Try this, in the long answer category: what's a 15-letter word for "Psychiatrists' suggestions, sometimes"? In the area of specialized learning, do you know what "Limón or Vaníla" (10 letters) refers to? And in the matter of tricky clues: what's the five-letter answer to "'_____ nui loa' ('Fondest regards,' in Maui)"? Give up? Answers: ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BACARDI RUM, and ALOHA. If you can fill in all the blanks in these 72 cranium crushers, you're super smart, indeed.

Mensa Crosswords for the Super Smart: 72 Cranium-Crushing Challenges

What are pointer crosswords? They're puzzles where the clues are right in the grid--not alongside--and an arrow points to the spaces where solvers should write the answer. This popular style eliminates wasted time spent looking back and forth between the crossword and the clue list; everything's neatly in one place. Plus, the clues in pointers take up less space on the page, so there are more puzzles--60 in all. Have fun with these: "Edible crustacean of rocky shores" (9 letters), "Nobelist of 1903 and 1911" (5 letters), and many others.Answers: Stone crab and Curie.

Sit & Solve® Pointer Crosswords (Sit & Solve® Series)

As you cross the country, the seas, or the sky, cross some words, too! These delightful puzzlesin a cool airplane-shaped bookhave clues that cover everything from TV to geography. And they’re just challenging enough to keep the brain percolating pleasantly: there’s nothing too arcane, few very long words, and absolutely no crosswordese”just entertaining solving that anyone can enjoy. Give it a shot and see if you can figure out the answers to The Dick Van Dyke Show family name; Pizza portions; Sunlamp emission; and North Carolina college town. ((Answers:))Petrie; slices; Elon; UV ray.

Sit & Solve Travel Crosswords (Sit & Solve Series)

It’s nine squares high, 966 squares long, and with a colossal 2,439 answers to figure out: this is truly a record-breaking, brain-busting crossword puzzle! Crossword mavens can make a choice: they can either start a marathon solving session or come back to it time and time againdoing a little more and stretching out the pleasure. It starts simplywith easy first solutions. But as you get deeper into the puzzle, the clues get harder. Plus, as a fun extra, an excerpt from John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address is woven throughout the puzzles, providing a running theme.

The World's Longest Crossword Puzzle

There’s something new on the sudoku sceneand it’s bound to capture the attention of word lovers. Wordoku follows the same basic principles as sudoku, except that solvers fill the grid with nine letters. Under each grid, the letters for that puzzle appear, in a pronounceable anagram. Then, just like the original, you have to arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, every row, and every 3x3 box just one time: anyone, including non-English speakers, can do that. But unlike sudoku, the fun doesn’t end there: buried inside the grid, you’ll also find the answer to the anagram. (In some cases, to make it tougher, the anagram actually has TWO possible solutions.) It’s brainbusting, entertaining, and irresistible.

The Official Book of Wordoku: Sudoku Puzzles for Word Lovers

With a separate sudoku book for every level, this work helps puzzle lovers play this popular game. Taking a page from karate - another Japanese art, each title is graded by colour: White Belt for easy, Green Belt for medium level, Brown Belt for hard, and Black Belt for the super-tough solvers. Each book includes 300 puzzles.

Second-Degree White Belt Sudoku® (Martial Arts Puzzles Series)

Union Square & Co.

Second-Degree Green Belt Sudoku® (Martial Arts Puzzles Series)

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