Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
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Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword

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Alan Connor (Author)  

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In the century since its birth, the crossword 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 crosswords, 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.
Alan Connor is the question editor of BBC2's Only Connect and writes quizzes for various newspapers. He cannot see a new fact without wondering how to make it into a piece of quiz. Alan is a screenwriter, journalist and the author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee, about the puzzling world of crosswords. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?
  • Contributor: Alan Connor
  • Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9780141977102
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 130x198x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 223
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Release Date: 2014-06-05
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Alan Connor is the question editor of BBC2's Only Connect and writes quizzes for various newspapers. He cannot see a new fact without wondering how to make it into a piece of quiz. Alan is a screenwriter, journalist and the author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee, about the puzzling world of crosswords. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?

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