The Quickway Crossword Dictionary

This is the twelfth edition of The Quickway Crossword Dictionary: the essential companion for the crossword puzzler.

Its easy-reference format guides you to the information you need, and provides more clues, more newly coined words and more facts than ever.

Seven mini-dictionaries of two- to eight-letter words give you the answer to a tricky clue at a glance, while the dictionary's range of information and essential references make it an indispensable addition to the word-solver's shelf.

Now in its 70th year, The Quickway Crossword Dictionary also contains tables by word-length, ready-to-hand, of indispensable listings:

• Chemical elements and their symbols
• Coins and monies, past and present
• Countries that have changed names
• Mythological and classical heroes
• Presidents, prime ministers and roman emperors
• Religions around the world
• Weights and measures down the ages
• Groups of a kind, and many other matters required today - together with a 'crossword miscellany'

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