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Two Girls, One on Each Knee - The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword (Paperback) Loot Price: R335
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Two Girls, One on Each Knee - The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword (Paperback): Alan Connor

Two Girls, One on Each Knee - The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword (Paperback)

Alan Connor

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In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional crosswords, to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the form into the fiendish sport it is today, encompassing the most challenging clues, particular tricks, the world's greatest setters and famous solvers, PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition, this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very particular form of wordplay.

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Imprint: Penguin Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2014
Authors: Alan Connor
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-197710-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Puzzles & quizzes > Crosswords
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LSN: 0-14-197710-8
Barcode: 9780141977102

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