The Oxford Crossword Dictionary

by Market House Books Ltd (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.27

  Thjs brand new edition of the highly successful Oxford Crossword Dictionary still draws on the authority of The Concise Oxford Dictionary and The New Shorter Oxford Dictionary, and will provide crossword lovers with everything there is to know about how to solve crosswords. There are over 250,000 entries, alphabetically arranged by word-length for easy look-up, and the list of words has been fully updated for this edition to include up-to-the-minute words. The lists include not only standard English, but also foreign words, phrases, idioms, obsolete words, and irregular forms, which usually appear in word game clues. To help you answer general knowledge clues, list have been fully updated and reorganized for this edition so that finding the answers to clues are made easy. New lists have been introduced, including food and drink, plants and animals, and computer games. Lists of famous people in the arts, historical and political figures, monarchs, presidents, sports personalities, and writers will help you solve biographical clues. A new long introduction by Michael Macdonald-Cooper, compiler of crosswords for The Independent, is required reading for all crossword enthusiasts. It gives a fascinating history of both British and American crosswords, and details of the origins of cryptic crosswords, with practical advice on how to solve them.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $5.83

  The Oxford Crossword Dictionary , now in paperback, is a reference for all word-game enthusiasts. Over 215,000 words, extracted from The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and The Concise Oxford Dictionary , are arranged according to the number of letters they contain. Entries are alphabetically arranged within numerical groups and start at two-letter words, going up to words and phrases of sixteen letters.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.27

  This is a reference for all word game enthusiasts. The dictionary is arranged in three sections, and is designed to provide all of the different types of information readers might need when tackling difficult clues in a puzzle. The first section contains a master list of 250,000 words, extracted from the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Dictionary . Entries are alphabetically arranged according to length of word, starting with a list of two-letter words, finishing with a list of 15-letter words and phrases. The second section consists of lists of biographical and proper names. The biographical names (5,000 in total) are arranged in categories, for example sports, arts, science, history, religion etc and sorted alphabetically by surname within each category. Also included in this section are 50 pages of geographical entries, covering countries of the world, states in the US, regions of South Africa and rivers of the world. The third section contains thematic lists on a wide variety of subjects, such as animals, plants, literature, music, art, religion, science, food and drink.