Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, Second Edition
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Overview
Over 300,000 entries puzzle hounds up-to-the-minute puzzle clues and answers to help solve the most common—and arcane—puzzles around. Lists are arranged both alphabetically and by letter count, and cover a wide range of variant spellings, multiword phrases, and foreign-language terms.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780028612126 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 09/28/1996 |
| Series: | Webster's New World Series |
| Edition description: | REV |
| Pages: | 672 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
JANE SHAW WHITFIELD was a noted crossword puzzle expert and author of rhyming dictionaries.
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Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
2nd EditionBy Jane Shaw Whitfield
All right reserved.
ISBN: 067100977X
Foreword
This new edition of Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary represents a thorough revision and updating of the highly successful work originally compiled by Jane Shaw Whitfiels. Thousands of new clue words and answer terms have been aded from crossword puzzles published since last revision. Biographical and geographical entries are now completely up to date. Tables have been introduced to provide a particularly effective and convenient way to locate large bocks of related terms in one place. In addition, a user's guide created especially for this edition will assist readers in finding precisely the words they want quickly and easily.
Crossword puzzle dictionaries and crossword puzzle solvers share, predictably, some special characteristics. Both are distinguished by their breadth of vocabulary and by their unique intellectual focus on the relationship between clues and answers. The editors of Webster's New World dictionaries wish to acknowledge the contributions to this edition of one very gifted crossword puzzle enthusiast, Mr. Joe Forest of Sharonville, Ohio, whose insightful suggestions have been invaluable.
This all-new second edition remains in one respect unchanged, namely, it is, as Jane Shaw Whitfield wrote in her foreword to the first edition, dedicated "to all enthusiasts of crossword puzzles and to their creators."
Copyright © 1997 by Hungry Minds, Inc.
Foreword
This new edition of Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary represents a thorough revision and updating of the highly successful work originally compiled by Jane Shaw Whitfiels. Thousands of new clue words and answer terms have been aded from crossword puzzles published since last revision. Biographical and geographical entries are now completely up to date. Tables have been introduced to provide a particularly effective and convenient way to locate large bocks of related terms in one place. In addition, a user's guide created especially for this edition will assist readers in finding precisely the words they want quickly and easily.
Crossword puzzle dictionaries and crossword puzzle solvers share, predictably, some special characteristics. Both are distinguished by their breadth of vocabulary and by their unique intellectual focus on the relationship between clues and answers. The editors of Webster's New World dictionaries wish to acknowledge the contributions to this edition of one very gifted crossword puzzle enthusiast, Mr. Joe Forest of Sharonville, Ohio, whose insightful suggestions have been invaluable.
This all-new second edition remains in one respect unchanged, namely, it is, as Jane Shaw Whitfield wrote in her foreword to the first edition, dedicated "to all enthusiasts of crossword puzzles and to their creators."
Copyright © 1997 by Hungry Minds, Inc.
Foreword
This new edition of Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary represents a thorough revision and updating of the highly successful work originally compiled by Jane Shaw Whitfiels. Thousands of new clue words and answer terms have been aded from crossword puzzles published since last revision. Biographical and geographical entries are now completely up to date. Tables have been introduced to provide a particularly effective and convenient way to locate large bocks of related terms in one place. In addition, a user's guide created especially for this edition will assist readers in finding precisely the words they want quickly and easily.
Crossword puzzle dictionaries and crossword puzzle solvers share, predictably, some special characteristics. Both are distinguished by their breadth of vocabulary and by their unique intellectual focus on the relationship between clues and answers. The editors of Webster's New World dictionaries wish to acknowledge the contributions to this edition of one very gifted crossword puzzle enthusiast, Mr. Joe Forest of Sharonville, Ohio, whose insightful suggestions have been invaluable.
This all-new second edition remains in one respect unchanged, namely, it is, as Jane Shaw Whitfield wrote in her foreword to the first edition, dedicated "to all enthusiasts of crossword puzzles and to their creators."
Copyright © 1997 by Hungry Minds, Inc.
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Table of Contents
Staff.
Foreword.
Guide to the Use of This Book.
Abbreviations Used in This Work.
Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.
Tables.
Books of the Bible.
Chemical Elements.
Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Famous Names in Crossword Puzzles.
Nations of the World.
Selected Nobel Prize Winners.
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction.
Shakespeare's Plays and Characters.
Presidents and First Ladies of the United States.
States of the United States.