Travel Tales And Cryptic Crosswords
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| Author | : Peter Waugh |
| Publisher | : Austin Macauley |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2020-01-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781528919302 |
Enjoy a travel tale and a cryptic crossword on each of the 53 weekends possible in a year. Unconventional, quirky and generally light-hearted, the tales range from circumnavigating the globe by cargo/passenger and migrant ships and driving an ageing car from Paris to Tehran over bad roads in winter and mostly at night, to hitchhiking in kilts around Europe. Selling patent medicine in rural Malaya in the early 1960s, surviving an earthquake and its aftermath in Tehran, and hearing of JFK's assassination from a Chinese gangster in Kuala Lumpur all feature. There are rants about unsatisfactory toilet blocks in caravan parks and travellers who cap one's stories; raves about Star Bars and Star Stays; essays on Currywurst and the town of Condom; and there are more than 150 photos, a few poems and one recipe. The cryptic crosswords are modelled on those in The Times, but perhaps slightly easier.
| Author | : Peter Waugh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Voyages and travels |
| ISBN | : 9781528962643 |
| Author | : Henry Hook |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9781402743726 |
A double dose of fun for the traveller who likes a challenge! These crosswords go beyond the usual, because the solution to every clue features a little extra wordplay - including anagrams, reversals and other games.
| Author | : Lynn Gold |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 631 |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1039129951 |
Part fiction, part memoir, this comprehensive collection of short works showcases decades of writing by Lynn Gold. Comprising over two hundred individual pieces, Tales, Topics, Trivia, and Travel is wide-ranging, touching on topics such as marriage, family, business, abusive relationships, women’s independence, abortion, education, racism, changing technology, politics, and much more. Sometimes touching, sometimes whimsical, often funny, Gold’s sharp intelligence and wit shines throughout the collection of stories, essays, and verse. Both entertaining and thoughtful, this collection will appeal to people who enjoy short works with a particular interest in a Jewish woman’s experience of twentieth and twenty-first-century North America.
| Author | : Fraser Simpson |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2001-06 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9780806901862 |
These puzzles - taken from the celebrated pages of The New Yorker magazine - offer more challenges per 'empty square' than the average crossword! Every cryptic has a twist, a little something extra, a double-dose of difficulty. That's because the clues all have two parts: a definition half and a wordplay half, with anagrams, reversals, containers, and lots of other word games built in. For example, here's a clue: 'Reportedly lost in fog. (4 letters).' Got it? It's 'mist' - a homonym for 'missed' and also a synonym for 'fog'. An introduction enlightens you on all the intricacies of solving cryptic crosswords, and of course the solutions appear at the end with tricks behind the clues explained. It may take a little practice to get the hang of these, but once you do, you'll be hooked for good!
| Author | : Emily Cox |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2009-05-05 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9781402759864 |
Dedicated puzzle enthusiasts see it too often: ordinary crosswords with ho-hum clues like "Toledo's lake" for ERIE. That means they need to spice up their solving with the pure puzzling pleasure of cryptic crosswords. Here, each clue offers double the dose of wordplay: to find the answer, they'll have to do a little extra deciphering--recognizing a homophone, for example, or working out a charade. Once fans try cryptics, they'll never return to regular crosswords again
| Author | : David Astle |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1743431937 |
Crosswords are not as old as you think. The first one appeared a century ago, the little square keeping in remarkable shape. Cluetopia is here to toast the centenary, whizzing you through 100 years of remarkable clues, across the world, seeking the inside stories. Come travel to New Guinea, Venezuela and Metropolis: every destination arising from a clue. Encounter love, murder, hoaxes, propaganda. Visit a Maori funeral, a Bass Strait oil-rig, a Russian game show-just some of side-trips locked inside a crossword. With almost 100 mini-chapters, each one with a clue to crack, Cluetopia is a book for word lovers and puzzle fans. You'll see how crosswords capture the life around them, from prison cells to outer space. A holiday for the head, Cluetopia is as fun, as wild and as wordy as David's previous bestseller, Puzzled.
| Author | : Sandy Balfour |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2013-11-07 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1782394796 |
A little gem of a memoir... The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. -- Sunday Telegraph Half a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. The Times claims almost as many, and the Guardian 300,000. Most people remember their first time, and everyone has a favourite. You can do it in bed, standing up, or on a train. You can do it alone, with a loved one or in groups. The Queen does it in the bath. It is not illegal, immoral or fattening. In fact it tops the Home Office list of approved entertainments for prison inmates. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. But it is much, much more than a 'how-to' book. Each chapter is starts with a clue, and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England. In the process, we encounter The Best Crossword Clue Ever, The Most Beautiful Clue in the World 'Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose' and the eccentric personalities behind such legendary compilers as the Guardian's Araucaria and The Times'Ximenes.
| Author | : Nick Bantock |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2000-07 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780811827522 |
"The Artful Dodger" surveys the vast and varied territory that Bantock's work encompasses: from his English art-school days to paperback covers, pure abstract experimentation to pop-up books, "Griffin & Sabine" to his most recent work. His own words lend a highly personal, often revealing angle to more than 350 color images.
| Author | : Theresa Tan |
| Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2020-10-15 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 981492833X |
They say little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. That innocent baby in the cot will one day become a sister, a mother, a wife, a daughter-in-law. A girl's first—and sometimes final—teacher is her mother. From first steps to first kiss, marriage to motherhood, mothers are the coach and counsellor in every girl's life. In this collection curated by veteran editor and writer Theresa Tan, mothers write letters to their daughters who may one day become mothers themselves. At times hilarious, mostly brutally honest, these are no-holds-barred, one-sided conversations between moms and their girls: values to impart, mistakes to learn from, wisdom to pass on, confessions to make, gratitude to express. These letters will make you laugh, weep and hug your child. Includes notes on lipstick and taking care of your body; how to survive marriage (and divorce); stupid things never to do; making hard decisions; living life with passion; raising children and caring for aging parents; carrying on family traditions; focusing on what truly matters in life. Contributors include: Adlena Oh-Wong, Amy Poon, Ng Choong San, Cynthia Chew, Dawn Lee, Dawn Sim, Janet Goh, Jennifer Heng, Jenny Wee, Kalthum Ahmad, Karen Tan, Landy Chua-Moosa, Loretta Urquhart, Paige Parker, Petrina Kow, Sangeeta Mulchand, Shaan Moledina-Lim, Chiong Xiao Ting, Lin Xiuzhen, Yen Chua and Zalina Gazali
