Webster's New World Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

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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 disaster strikes and you find yourself stumped, you need a crossword puzzle dictionary that covers everything from the genuinely arcane and unusual to those ordinary words you just some-how^always overlook. And, most of all, it should help you find the word you want quickly, accurately, and without any fuss at all.
From Jane Shaw Whitfield and the editors of Webster's New World™ College Dictionary and Webster's New World1™ Thesaurus comes this all new, completely revised and updated second edition of Webster's New World™ Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.Thousands of new entries, expanded lists of subcategories, and tables including Shakespeare's plays and characters, books of the Bible, countries and capitals, international currencies, and... Tovább

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iscover the most complete and easy-to-use crossword puzzle dictionary of all!
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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 disaster strikes and you find yourself stumped, you need a crossword puzzle dictionary that covers everything from the genuinely arcane and unusual to those ordinary words you just some-how^always overlook. And, most of all, it should help you find the word you want quickly, accurately, and without any fuss at all.
From Jane Shaw Whitfield and the editors of Webster's New World™ College Dictionary and Webster's New World1™ Thesaurus comes this all new, completely revised and updated second edition of Webster's New World™ Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.Thousands of new entries, expanded lists of subcategories, and tables including Shakespeare's plays and characters, books of the Bible, countries and capitals, international currencies, and much more make this the easiest-to-use and most reliable crossword puzzle resource you can buy.

This outstanding dictionary is the ideál resource for the millions who love crossword puzzles.
Jane Shaw Whitfield, an ardent crossword fan and author of The Improved University Rhyming Dictionary, devoted years to compiling an all-inclusive list of clue words and answer terms from thousands of crossword puzzles. The result is a book that covers a vast rangé of exactly those kinds of words that crossword fans love. Rare, arcane, obscure, obsolete, slang, and dialect terms abound, often with variant spellings and information on their language origins.With them is a host of other names and terms, familiar and unfamiliar, from the arts, folklóré, geography, history, literature, mythology, politics, science, technology, and more.
A particularly useful feature of this book is a formát designed to make the right word easy to find. Clue words are listed alpha-betically, with subcategories of related terms alsó in alphabetical order. Answer terms for each clue are given first by the
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count of letters in each word, and then alphabetically among words having the same letter count.
This second edition adds thousands of new words from the most recent crosswords as well as hundreds of new and completely updated biographical and geographical entries. New tables arranged by both alphabetical order and letter count cover nations of the world and their currencies, Nobel Prize winners, Shakespeare's plays and characters, and much more.
Crossword fans everywhere will find Webster's New World™ Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, second edition, a continuing delight to use and more helpful than ever before.
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