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The Sunday Times Concise Crossword Book 5

100 Challenging Crossword Puzzles
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Test yourself with these challenging crossword puzzles. A crossword to test your general knowledge with 100 puzzles of moderate difficulty, featuring one or two more teasing clues to tax you more fully. It's a satisfying challenge to stimulate the brain cells. Do you find cryptic crosswords... Read More
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Test yourself with these challenging crossword puzzles.

A crossword to test your general knowledge with 100 puzzles of moderate difficulty with one or two more teasing clues to tax you more fully. A satisfying challenge to stimulate the brain cells.

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Test yourself with these challenging crossword puzzles.

A crossword to test your general knowledge with 100 puzzles of moderate difficulty, featuring one or two more teasing clues to tax you more fully. It's a satisfying challenge to stimulate the brain cells.

Do you find cryptic crosswords too much of a chore? Do you want your general knowledge and word power to be tested but not put through the mill? Are you on the lookout for something to pass the time on a train or plane journey? We have just what you are looking for.

The Sunday Times Concise Crossword Book 5 offers 100 crosswords, set out in a clear, easy-to-use double-page spread. The clues are mostly definition-based. There will be clues for which more than one answer is possible, so it’s best to look for a clearly unique answer or a unique possible combination of crossing answers as the first to write in.

Series: The Sunday Times Puzzle Books

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008673109

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Times Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 160g

Pages: 240

About the Author

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785. A daily cryptic crossword is published in the main newspaper, and the Mind Games section in the Times2 supplement contains sudoku, Killer Sudoku, KenKen, word polygon puzzles, and a quick crossword.

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