Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver

ISBN: 9781472968074 出版年：2013 页码：895 Anne Stibbs Kerr Bloomsbury Publishing

Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will befamiliar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road tocompletion. Together in one bumper volume, Crossword Lists and Crossword Solver provide the ultimate aid for tracking down those final solutions.The Lists section contains morethan 100,000 words and phrases, listed both alphabetically and bynumber of letters, under category headings such as Volcanoes, Fungi,Gilbert & Sullivan, Clouds, Cheeses, Mottoes, and Archbishops ofCanterbury. As intersecting solutions provide letters of the unansweredclue, locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick and easy.The lists are backed up with a comprehensive index, which also guidesthe puzzler to associated tables - e.try Stage andScreen Personalities.The Solver section containsmore than 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparativeand superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extendsto first names, place names, technical terms, compound expressions,abbreviations, and euphemisms.Grouped according to number of letters -up to fifteen - this section and suitable for all levelsof crossword puzzle. At the end a further 3,000 words are listed bycategory, along with an index of unusual words.