Two Girls One On Each Knee The Puzzling Playful World Of The Crossword Alan Connor by Alan Connor 9780141977119, 0141977116 instant download after payment.

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an
audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic
crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the
Guardian's writer on crosswordsOn 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle
will be 100 years old. In the century since, it has evolved into the
world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay,
the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough
to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates
the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From
the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional
puzzles, to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the
form into the fiendish sport it is today, encompassing the most
challenging clues, particular tricks, the world's greatest setters and
famous solvers, PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish
Inquisition, this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very
particular form of wordplay.Note: The book begins with a puzzle in a
standard 15-by-15 grid which incorporates all the basic clue types. The
answers are also the chapter titles. Alan Connor writes twice-weekly
about crosswords for the Guardian. He has contributed pieces about
language for the BBC and the Guardian and works in radio and television,
writing for Charlie Brooker, Caitlin Moran and Sue Perkins. His most
recent writing was A Young Doctor's Notebook, a TV adaptation of Mikhail
Bulgakov stories starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm.