The Crossword Obsession
Subtitle: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: November 5, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780425186824
First sentence: Human beings have a passion for puzzles: we love giving our mental musculature vigorous workouts with perplexing posers and scintillating stumpersparticularly those with a goodly dose of wicked wit.