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Need a gift for a crossword fan? These books feature easy crosswords for beginners or ESL students, more challenging crossword puzzles for experienced solvers, U.K. or cryptic crosswords, and fun and crazy crosswords for children.
Educational Puzzles
Summer's almost here, and with it, summer vacation! If you're looking for a nice, quiet pastime to keep the kids out of your hair, why not get them some puzzles? Puzzle games are educational as well as entertaining - and did I mention quiet?
Crossword Puzzle Books from The New York Times
Considered the cleverest, most engaging puzzles of all, The New York Times crossword is the gold standard of crossword puzzles. Here's a selection of puzzle books featuring some of the best crosswords published by the Times.

For those who prefer to solve crosswords online, try these Books for Crossword Puzzle Solving
Here are the helpful books that every crossword puzzle solver needs whether they're a novice or a seasoned pro. However, newbies beware! Crossword puzzles can be habit-forming and very time consuming. Happy puzzling!

Casual Crosswords - Easy Crossword Puzzles
Product Review. Definitely an all-star cast of constructors orchestrated by an editor with over 30 years in the puzzle biz. How can you go wrong? Highly recommended for the novice or 'casual' solver.
Challenging Crossword Puzzles
Here's a selection of crossword puzzles that will challenge even the most experienced solvers. One recommendation: work these puzzles in pencil and have a good eraser on hand.
Christmas Puzzle Books
Here's a selection of puzzle books to keep youngsters - and grown-ups - challenged and entertained this holiday season.
Crossword Magazines
Enjoy the convenience of having your favorite crossword puzzle magazines delivered right to your door!
Cryptic Crosswords
In order to solve these crossword puzzles, first you must solve the cryptic clues. These puzzle books feature UK style grids and are quite difficult to solve. Try them out if you're looking for a challenge.
Black Heritage Series
Just in time for Black History Month, a new series of jigsaw puzzles and trivia games celebrating African-American history and culture.
Dad's Gift Guide
Looking for a gift for Dad this Father's Day? From crosswords to jigsaw puzzles, here are some great and inexpensive gift ideas that are sure to provide Dad with hours of puzzling entertainment.
Easy Crossword Puzzles
If you like to do crossword puzzles that don't have you pulling your hair out, then here's a selection of puzzle books that are compiled with the novice or casual solver in mind.
Everything Kids' Puzzle Books
With hundreds of themed puzzles, The Everything Kids series will provide hours of fun for young puzzlers. Kids can learn about dinosaurs, hone their math skills, improve their spanish, or just enjoy themselves with themed puzzles on pirates, cars and trucks, crazy stuff or stuff that's just gross! Whatever their interests, these puzzles and activities are bound to entertain.
Halloween Puzzles and Activities
These spooky crosswords, jigsaw puzzles and puzzle games all have a Halloween theme.
Holiday Puzzles - Independence Day
These crosswords and jigsaw puzzles have themes pertaining to the fourth of July holiday.
Idiom Savant - Slang as it is Slung - Book Review
People from all walks of life and across all occupations develop a terminology that allows them to quickly and succinctly express themselves with a minimum of effort and an economy of words. Author Jerry Dunn has given anyone interested in language an entertaining and informative collection of slang from medical workers to movie ushers. This book is loaded with the 'lingua franca' of gardeners and golfers, bowlers and barristers.
Kids' Crossword Puzzles
Crossword puzzles (and word games) are a great way for kids to develop vocabulary and spelling skills. And puzzle solving is beneficial not only as an entertaining pastime but also as a way to keep the mind flexible. Kids who start early will usually remain puzzle aficianados throughout their lives.
Kids' Word Games - Spelling Games - Word Puzzles for Children
These word games can help your kids learn the alphabet, improve spelling and grammar and develop logic, strategy and reasoning skills.
Large-Print Crosswords
Love crossword puzzles but are having trouble reading the clues? If your vision problems are keeping you from enjoying your favorite puzzle game, then large-print crosswords may be the solution.
Mom's Gift Guide
Looking for a gift for Mom this Mother's Day? From crosswords to jigsaw puzzles, here are some great and inexpensive gift ideas that are sure to provide Mom with hours of puzzling entertainment.
Palindromes - Entertaining Word Games
A palindrome is a word, verse, sentence or poem which reads the same backwards as it does forwards. Here, you'll find a selection of books featuring this form of wordplay. Most of these books are for younger readers, aged 9 to 12.
Product Review : NYTimes Touch Screen Crossword Puzzles
Definitely a great gift for the crossword fan who commutes to work or the business traveller on cross-country flights. The perfect stocking-stuffer.
Sports Crosswords
Sports and puzzle fans, this is for you! Whether your favorite sport is baseball, basketball, football, hockey, golf or any combination of these, there's a book of crosswords compiled with the sports nut in mind.
TV - Movie - Pop Culture Crosswords
If you know your celebrities, you'll love these crossword puzzles featuring TV and movie titles and stars, singers and songs and bestselling authors and the characters they made famous. Makes a great gift for the puzzling people in your life.
U.S. History Puzzles
Significant events in history of the United States, individuals who made a lasting impression on the country, and the various ethnic and cultural groups which make up its population are the focus of these crossword and jigsaw puzzles.

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