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THE FASTEST, MOST CONVENIENT REFERENCE BOOK FOR CROSSWORD FANS AND PUZZLE CREATORS — FROM BEGINNERS TO EXPERTSCompiled by crossword puzzle expert Jane Shaw Whitfield and the editors of Webster's New World ™, this splendid new volume is specially designed to help you find the word you want — FAST! Unlike some other puzzle dictionaries, this one is more than just a simple listing of words of six letters or fewer, with no clues to meaning. This is a dictionary of terms actually found in a survey of thousands of puzzles. Here are words of two to fifteen or more letters, as well as phrases and compounds of two or more words — just what you need to solve even the most challenging puzzles!
Synopsis:
Now completely updated, this crossword puzzle dictionary is the fastest word-and-phrase sourcebook for simple to difficult puzzle-solving. Features more than 30,000 words; phrases and compounds of two or more words; names from the Bible, mythology, and history, and much more. Reissue.
Table of Contents
ContentsStaff
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
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