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SERIES HEADERS
Puzzlewright BL U E C H I P S E R I E

Blue-Chip Cryptic
Crosswords as Published in

The Wall Street Journal

by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon,
foreword by Mike Shenk

edicated puzzle enthusiasts see it too often: ho-hum clues like
D“Toledo’s lake” for ERIE. That means they need to spice up their
solving with the pure puzzling pleasure of cryptic crosswords, where
each clue offers double the dose of wordplay. To find the answer, it’s
necessary to do additional deciphering—recognizing a homophone
or working out a charade. And the cryptics in this collection have
something more: not only does each clue contain the extra word-
play, but every puzzle also includes a theme that can bend the rules.
Special instructions help solvers find their way through the trickery.
Once puzzle fans try these cryptic crosswords
from The Wall Street Journal, they’ll never
return to regular crosswords again!
EMILY COX and HENRY RATHVON are bona-fide puzzle royalty
whose acrostics appear in The New York Times every other week.
They regularly write standard crosswords for the Boston Globe
APRIL 2020
ISBN 9781454936213 • $9.95 ($13.50 CAN) • PB/S • 96 PP and cryptic crosswords for The Wall Street Journal (from which
8 × 10 • CQ 46 • World • Puzzlewright these puzzles were taken) as well as a Canadian publication.

KEY SELLING POINTS
✱ High-quality cryptic crosswords never collected in book
form, from the best-known creators in the country
✱ Foreword by Mike Shenk, the crossword editor of The Wall
Street Journal
✱ Brief introduction explains the rules of cryptic crosswords
for those who have never solved them
✱ Superb quality when it comes to paper and binding;
this won’t fall apart halfway through the solving

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