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75 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles: everyone’s favorite!

The Sunday crossword puzzle in The New York Times is the biggest one of the week! This collection has 75 of them, all edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz and guaranteed to dazzle. So put on your Sunday best and let your cleverness shine with Sunday Best Crossword Puzzles!

Features:
- 75 themed Sunday New York Times crosswords
- Portable packaging for solving on the go
- Smart, fresh vocabulary, fun themes, and pop-culture references

Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin (March 19, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250198410
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250198419
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 0.54 x 9.21 inches
Reviewer: Judy martin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent puzzles
Review: Challenge

Reviewer: Thomas Salamone
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I Remember Many - So? They Are Fun!
Review: I long ago realized there are just so many NYT Sunday crosswords. They are my personal favorites - size, doable, funny, themed and on. I keep buying their various collections all the while (now pay attention) realizing there are just so many NYT Sunday crosswords. Meeting old friends now and then is enjoyable, for me. Hope this makes sense to you.

Reviewer: Carla Cherry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My favorite puzzles
Review: I love doing the Sunday puzzles from the Times and order these books frequently. They give hours and hours of enjoyment.

Reviewer: Uchi
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fine enough collection of NYT Sunday crosswords
Review: I got this collection of 75 crossword puzzles to work on mainly while on the exercise bike. My last collection had been "The New York Times Will Shortz Presents Crosswords for 365 Days: A Year of Easy to Hard Puzzles" (2006), but I had gotten to the point that all of those puzzles that I could solve had already been finished, so I needed a replacement. That collection had a couple of advantages over this one: (1) Three times as many puzzles included for just a few dollars more; (2) a wide range of difficulty among the puzzles; (3) paper of a heavier weight, so virtually no bleed-through of images from one side of the page to the other. On what may be the plus side, a lot of the cultural references in the puzzles from the older book were pretty stale. I just started using the new one, but the initial signs look pretty good--one question references a campaign slogan from the 2016 US presidential campaign; another refers to Kanye West lyrics, the 2009 Grammy awards, and the "company that passed Walmart in 2015 as the world's largest retailer by market value." Also, this book is thinner and a lot lighter, so much easier to hold while exercising, and probably much more convenient to carry or pack while traveling.The main reason I am writing this review is to point out that this edition seems to be an improvement over several of the New York Times crossword puzzle books published in the past few years that many reviewers complained had print that was too small and pages that were far too thin to be useful. This edition's format, with the clues on the left-hand pages and the puzzle grids on the right, is such that bleed-through is not a hindrance, even with the black ink of the pens I use. The font size seems to be about the same or maybe just slightly smaller than in the "Crosswords for 365 Days" book, with capital letters that are about 2mm tall. (Actually, the letters might be a little closer together than in the older book, but I haven't found that to be a problem.)I would have preferred getting another collection of easy-to-hard Monday-through-Sunday New York Times puzzles, rather than just puzzles from a single day of the week, but I did not see any recently published collections like that, so from what appeared to be available, this one seems to be fine.For those who care, each puzzle has about 120 horizontal and 120 vertical questions. The book measures roughly 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches, and weighs 200 grams (just under half a pound).Addendum:Another reviewer commented, "puzzles number 61 and 64 have misprinted grids. Squares are blocked out when they shouldn't be or vice versa." From sampling a few of the questions, it seems to me that they are printed properly, at least in the edition I have. The title of puzzle 64 is "Double Quote," and the key seems to be that the answers to many of the questions are words that contain letters grouped in twos (examples might be the words "letter" with two t's or "puzzle" with two z's). The puzzle grid has spaces that are shaded a light grey color where the double letters would go (see in the photo attached to this review). Perhaps the other reviewer was confusing those light-grey shadings as being misprinting of the grid? Looking at the grid overall, the spaces that are fully blacked out are symmetrical, which is a hallmark of New York Times puzzles, so I don't get the sense that there is a printing error. (I haven't worked through the whole puzzles 61 and 64, so it's possible I missed something the other reviewer was seeing.)

Reviewer: Karen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Challenging and fun!
Review: Love crosswords! New York Times are the best! Challenging but totally doable with great themes.

Reviewer: Dan P.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: challenging
Review: Hard challenging puzzles. The kind you can go back to

Reviewer: jac31
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: much fun
Review: much fun

Reviewer: Onemother'sopinion
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect!
Review: Just what I was looking for...large enough, erased fine!

Reviewer: Dr. Richard J. Kitto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: All NYT puzzles that Will Shortz edits are great.And the format of this book is perfect… compact but crowded.

Reviewer: FA
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I could not believe how repetitive the clues and answers were from puzzle to puzzle. I got the strong impression that these puzzles are largely made by some sort of computer program with a very limited repertoire. They no longer have the breadth and cleverness they used to have.

Reviewer: Susan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Typical of the crosswords in the Sunday New York Times, these puzzles let Will Shortz's sense of humor shine through. Highly recommended for anyone who likes the challenge of a well-constructed crossword puzzle.

Reviewer: P. Salus
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Over the 60-plus years I have been solving NY Times puzzles, I have (occasionally) come across typos in the clues. Puzzle 61 in this assemblage is the first with a grid error. Does no one proofread any more?