The New York Times Strictly Medium Crossword Puzzles Volume 1: 200 Medium Puzzles

by The New York Times, Will Shortz (Editor)

The mid-level collection of a new trio of easy, medium, and hard crossword puzzle books from The New York Times, edited by Will Shortz

If you crave the pun-filled wordplay that comes with the New York Times ' tricky Wednesday and Thursday puzzles, you've met your match with this collection of 200 medium-level crosswords.

- 200 not-too-easy, not-too-hard puzzles from The New York Times
- Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz
- Convenient portable paperback size for on-the-go solving

240 pages, Paperback

Published February 2, 2021

About the author

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. Its website receives 30 million unique visitors per month.

Reviews

[Fiona · Rating 1 out of 5]

Some of the worst crosswords I've ever done in my life. Lots of horrendous themes, and not a single puzzle has felt rewarding to solve. The puzzles themselves are rife with naticks and crosswordese to the point where some of them no longer fall into the medium category. Also some of the rebuses are ones I'd only ever see for hard puzzles, so calling this "strictly" medium feels very misleading. I also would've appreciated having the titles for the crosswords, but I understand that might give away a lot so whatever, I can excuse that. I just can't excuse how dull most of these puzzles are. Some of the themes are truly terrible and I have yet to solve a single puzzle in here that made me go "Ohh, that's clever!!" or "That was a good one!" A few of the clues/words in certain puzzles have left me with that reaction but the rest of the puzzle was too horrific for me to ever be able to recommend this book. You will be genuinely frustrated and upset after solving these puzzles. I even solved these with other people and they too agreed these puzzles were ass. They were even so bad I got onto GOODREADS of all places to warn the public against this book. If you created any of the puzzles in this book, just know I hate you a lot and you SUCK at making crosswords!!!!!!!!!