The New York Times Monday Through Friday Easy to Tough Crossword Puzzles: 50 Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times (New York Times Crossword Puzzles) Spiral-bound – June 1, 2002

I love the New York Times crossword puzzles. They ran in our local newspaper, and if you completed Monday through tFriday and Saturday, the puzzles would get progressively more challenging each day. Your reward would be the Sunday puzzle would be more workable for you, by following the challenges all week. I received this book for Christmas. It's spiral bound which I think makes the book easier to write in and keep the paper straight. The puzzles are more than fun to work, but. you also increase your vocabulary and learn new facts with a lot of the clues, So, solve on!

I've been an avid crossword enthusiast for years, and The New York Times Monday Through Friday Easy to Tough Crossword Puzzles collection has become my go-to source of daily challenge and enjoyment. The range of difficulty, from easy Monday puzzles to the more challenging Friday ones, keeps me engaged and sharp throughout the week. The puzzles are well-constructed, with clever clues that make solving them incredibly satisfying. Whether you're a seasoned solver or a newcomer to crosswords, this book provides a perfect balance of fun and brain exercise. Highly recommended for anyone looking to enjoy high-quality puzzles and keep their mind active!

I rated this 4 stars because it’ll work for what I need it for. But I would’ve preferred it be spiral bound as it says, instead of soft covered as I received.

Great hard cover issue,large print from medium to hard puzzles. Coil spring binding makes flipping pages easy.

Gave this to my husband and he can’t let it go. Loves the varying challenges and clever construct throughout!

Great compilation of crossword puzzles. Just as advertised easy to hard. I can do the Mondays and Tuesdays pretty well, working my way up to the harder ones. Great puzzles with good clues and no dumb clues/answers. I am enjoying it!

It was, sadly, unavoidable for the once august NYT Crossword Dept. to fall victim to the decline of crossword quality as evidenced by the allegedly “contemporary” trend of easy creation (not solution) of crosswords by googling half-created entries and coming up with outrageous words that are not in common use, thus turning what used to be a mental exercise into a googling activity. Of this book’s puzzles only about 50% are of the old NYT quality. In 40% of the puzzles most clues are some sort of irrelevant or incoherent pun or wordplay sentences, some ridiculously lengthy whose clues not even the wildest imagination can figure out., while the small number of straight clues do not enable one even to start figuring out such meaningless sentences. Many of the clues are pointless, most hinting at some character on a TV show, movie, play, novel, sports team, etc., and their relatives, or even their exes. The remaining 10% are truly offensive to the NYT reputation as they are either ridiculously difficult, or answers miss one or more letters, or contain symbols in some square instead of letters, while some answers are a jumble of letters that if re-aligned produce the intended result. In addition to the 50% of good puzzles, one good feature of this book is that it is spiral, thus easy to work on in bed.

Was looking for something to do on a long trip. This was exactly what I was looking for. Gets me off my phone and engages my brain.