The Best Crossword Books for Holiday Puzzling

Have you done this week's crosswords?

Subscribe The Daily Beast Crossword is where power, pop culture, and politics intersect—quite literally.   Designed to be more challenging throughout the week, you can test your knowledge with five puzzles each week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Play This Week's Puzzles Get in the Game With Matt Gaffney Time to be thankful, and crossworders know how. French MERCI and German DANKE are frequent puzzle entries, while Japanese ARIGATO and Spanish GRACIAS are a little less frequent since they're seven letters long instead of slightly handier five. Chinese XIE XIE, with its cool-looking double X's, appeared in a New York Times puzzle earlier this month.   In that spirit of thankfulness, let me share three book recommendations for the coming holiday season, presented in order of difficulty: 75 Easy-To-Read Crosswords.  By Chris King. Moderately challenging crosswords from a much-admired constructor. Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll Crosswords. By Brendan Emmett Quigley. Hilarious and fun, as you might guess from the title. Devilishly Hard Fireball Crosswords. Edited by Peter Gordon. The motto of Fireball crosswords is "How hard are these puzzles? If you have to ask, too hard for you." But they're great fun if you can stand the heat. Got a puzzle you're thankful for? Tweet it to #beastxword and I'll check it out. Play This Week's Puzzles © Copyright 2020 The Daily Beast Company LLC  555 W. 18th Street, New York NY 10011  Privacy Policy If you are on a mobile device or cannot view the images in this message, click here to view this email in your browser. To ensure delivery of these emails, please add emails@thedailybeast.com to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, or think you have received this message in error, you can safely unsubscribe. HINT: (Sunday, 19 Down): You may know him as Captain Sulu