Merriam-Webster's Word Play Crosswords,9780877796633

Merriam-Webster's Word Play Crosswords

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ISBN13: 9780877796633
ISBN10: 0877796637
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Merriam Webster
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Summary

"New! Wordplay comes to crossword puzzles in this all-new collection by humorist and wordplay expert Richard Lederer and award-winning puzzle constructor Gayle Dean. Contains 50 puzzles based on a wordplay theme. Features palindromes, anagrams, puns, rhymes, bloopers, and jokes. Each puzzle includes an introduction by Richard Lederer."

Table of Contents

Introduction
IT'S A PUNDERFUL LIFE
Calling on the Homophone
A Wail of a Good Thyme
Common Cents
Bird Brain
Jest for the Health of It
Holy Cow---and That's No Bull!
You Said a Mouthful
Not on the Menu
Devilish Definitions
Kicked Out
Back on the Job
WHAT DO YOU GET?
Bestial Mergers
Curious Combinations
Cross Fertilization
``LET'S PLAY A GAME,'' SAID TOM SWIFTLY
Tom Foolery
A Swift Kick
PUNCH LINES
A Round of Set-Ups
Another Round of Set-Ups
Hit the Re-Set Button
A Singing Set-Up
GOOF AND GAFFES
Headline Howlers
Signs of Trouble
THE ANTICS OF SEMANTICS
Compound Anatomy
Fadspeak
Sounds Like a Plan
Monogamous Worlds
Pompous Proverbs
RHYME TIME
Handy-Dandy Reduplications
Terse Verse
Inky Pinky
AMAZING ANAGRAMS
Step
Anagrammarama
Punster---Run Pest
Loves to Solve
PALINDROMES ON PARADE
The Palindromedary
I'm a Word Row, Am I?
THE GAME IS THE NAME
Art of the State
Travel to Exotic Places
Initial Impressions
EZ SA
Authoritis
The Bard Shaken Up
LETTER-PERFECT PUZZLES
De-Feeted and Beheaded
Marsupial Mongrels
Bring Your ``A'' Game
I Love a Charade
Moral Code
Shifty Letters
Formulaic Thinking
Clerical Blender

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