Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

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Author: Jane Shaw Whitfield

ISBN-10: 0028612124

ISBN-13: 9780028612126

Category: Crossword Puzzles -> Dictionairies, glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

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.

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Discover the most complete and easy-to-use crossword puzzle dictionary of all! Finding the word that fits isn't always easy. Sometimes it's a struggle with the number of letters, and sometimes you just started off with the wrong idea. When you find yourself stumped, you need a crossword puzzle dictionary that covers everything from the genuinely arcane and unusual to those ordinary words you somehow overlooked. Most of all, you need a dictionary that helps you find the word you want quickly, accurately, and without fuss. This is that dictionary. From Jane Shaw Whitfield and the editors of Webster's New World comes the completely revised and updated second edition of Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary. This new edition includes thousands of new entries, expanded lists of subcategories, and helpful tables such as Shakespeare's plays and characters, books of the Bible, international currencies, and more. It is without question the easiest-to-use and most reliable crossword puzzle resource you can own. www.hungryminds.com

Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary\ 2nd Edition \ \ By Jane Shaw Whitfield \ Pocket\ Copyright © 2003 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.\ \ \ Continues... \ \ \ \ Excerpted from Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary by Jane Shaw Whitfield Copyright © 2003 by Jane Shaw Whitfield. Excerpted by permission.\ All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.\ Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site. \ \

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.