{"product_id":"9780008673093","title":"100 Years of The Sunday Times Crossword","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Biddlecombe, Peter \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemory improvement \u0026amp; thinking techniques\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 September 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Times Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Sunday Times Puzzle Books' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 272 pages, 75 b\/w,  illus\u003cbr\u003e234 x 152 x 21 | 338g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelive the glory of past crossword puzzles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  100 years old, The Sunday Times Crossword is the oldest of the broadsheet newspaper cryptic crosswords. Discover how the puzzles have developed over the years in this celebration of a century of crosswords, from 1925, when the first one was printed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Get an insight into the changes in crossword styles over the years, plus valuable tips on how to solve these classic crosswords. Selected, edited and annotated by Sunday Times Crossword Editor Peter Biddlecombe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As a general approach for books like this including very old puzzles, we recommend starting with the newest and going backwards in time. And as you go back, you will see things you should not see in modern cryptics:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Unindicated anagrams“bare anagram” clues with no definition – these are usually relatively easy“wordplay” for part of the answer rather than all of ithidden word clues with a lot of text in the “hiding place”“fill the blank” quotation cluesgrammatical differences between clue definitions or indications and the answer or a part of it — parts of speech, tenses, singular\/plural and so on“padding” – extra words added to a clue to complete the surface story, but with no role in the cryptic reading of the clue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome dated culture and language\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51097320915280,"sku":"9780008673093","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9780008673093_35b9ab7f-88cc-4c33-a157-70d40ad8ac96.jpg?v=1765989505","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008673093","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}