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World's Largest Crossword Puzzle
Breaking the 1996 Guinness record, this crossword hangs on a full seven feet by seven feet of wall space and has 28,000 clues for over 91,000 squares.

It’s a challenge that can take months, even up to a year, to complete.

A 100-page clue book, with no repeats, provides the hints.   read more...

1996 Guinness World Record: Record-Setting Puzzle

The Guinness Book of World Records awarded the World's Largest Crossword Puzzle to one built by Robert Stilgenbauer. The largest Crossword Puzzle, a title that held for many years.

The puzzle was a 111x111 grid covering a 4-foot square. The puzzle contained 4,018 words and included a 32-page booklet of the clues and a 12-page answer guide.

Guinness World Records: Most Prolific Crossword Compiler Roger F Squires of Ironbridge, Shropshire, UK, has compiled and had published 61,359 crosswords (to June 2004). He is one of only three crossword compilers to have been published in all five British broadsheet newspapers. Roger began compiling crosswords in 1963, after leaving the Royal Navy. He still works for about 9 hours a day, compiling around 28 crosswords a week, and published his millionth clue in September 1989. Neither his wife nor children share his passion for crosswords.  read more...

The world's most difficult crossword puzzle
Roger Squires, the world's most prolific crossword compiler, Roger Squires has set one of his hardest puzzles yet - a 3D teaser that is part of an online treasure hunt expected to take gamers up to a year to crack. "I hold the world record for the most crosswords set - almost 59,000 now - and I was recently asked to supply a crossword that would fit onto a Rubik's Cube."   read more...




The most difficult crosswords in Britain
Published this year for the first time, The Herald Crossword Book contains 75 puzzles from the paper's formidable stable of compilers, including five Wee Stinkers, recognised as one of the most difficult crosswords in Britain.  read more...


Crossword gives clues that lead to marriage
With help from the puzzle editor of The New York Times, 27-year-old Bill Gottlieb encoded his intentions in a Times crossword, then watched as his beloved, 24-year-old Emily Mindel, solved 56 Across: Will You Marry Me?   read the whole story...

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