The New York Times Collection of Crossword Puzzles by The New York Times
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Containing puzzles from each year of the NYT that had them, this is an interesting historical arc. It seesm as if most puzzles, especially from the 50s on where picked that ran on holidays - from Xmas to Valentine's Day - and this have predicatable themes. Also, the mid-40's ones are suprisingly large in type size and include the once popular diagramless styles. I had the most trouble with the WWII era ones. They are in the clues-from-the-news category and so much of remote Asian, Russian, and European towns and figures were part of the tribal knowledge than that are now only in the purview of WWII historians...
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