Crosswords for Experts: 50 Brand New Giant Sunday-Size Difficult Themed Crossword Puzzles
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These crossword puzzles are hard. They are recommended for expert solvers. They are not recommended for beginners.These puzzles are big and hard.They’re bigger than the puzzles on the apps, but they’re harder than the puzzles in the newspapers.In fact, they are bigger and harder than most puzzles. Even expert solvers may be tempted to rage-quit these puzzles.If you are used to easy puzzles and medium puzzles but haven’t been able to finish a hard puzzle, these puzzles are too hard for you.If you frequently use Google before filling in the first word, these puzzles are much too hard for you.If you don’t know Eli, Ira, Omar, Ella, Ida, Ada, Emo, Uma, Erle, Oona and Una, these puzzles are too hard for you.If you think Kafkaesque means really into coffee and that a bildungsroman is a German train station, that Tove Lo is a high holiday greeting and baba ghanoush is a fairy tale villain, these puzzles are too hard for you.If you see Coetzee and you don’t think of the Nobel Prize and pop music at the same time, these puzzles are too hard for you. If you think Euler is a character from “Futurama,” these puzzles are too hard for you.These puzzles are hard, like HARD-hard. When I say these puzzles are for know-it-alls, I mean that they’re for people who know it all—history, sports, pop culture, movies, literature, science, music, as well as the vagaries of the English language.Every puzzle has a theme, and all the themes are hard. Every puzzle also has a title, which is a clue to the theme. The themes provide an extra layer of puzzly goodness.All the puzzles have low word counts, and the word counts decrease as solvers work their way through the collection. The closer solvers get to the end, the harder the puzzles.Puzzle 50 is the hardest one in the collection. Puzzle 50 is not 50 times as hard as puzzle 1, but it is much harder. The theme is the hardest theme in the whole book.These puzzles are not for children, as some of the themes and clues are a bit risqué. These puzzles are not for children, not even the ones who are mature for their age.Each answer has a unique clue. Some clues are tricky. Some clues are very tricky. And some clues are very, very tricky. If a clue has a question mark at the end and it’s not a question—like Egg head? but not "¿Cómo ___ usted?"—then it’s a very, very tricky clue.Soler caveat. Let the solver beware. Read more
