The Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Omnibus

Inside this gilt-edged puzzle offering from the Wall Street Journal are 250 Sunday-size crosswords that take the bull (and bear) by the horns to prove that finance can be fun Brand names, slogans, movers and shakers--they're all here, in witty puzzles from the best in the business. And thanks to editor Mike Shenk, these crosswords will hold your interest even if you think the market is just some place to buy food.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375722106
• ISBN13: 9780375722103
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Book should be spiral bound

I LOVE the puzzles, but found the book unwieldy. Solving would be a more pleasant experience if it had a spiral binding.

Book review

Our family name is Shenk - gave to my brother for Christmas and he said it was really good.

250 Sunday-sized crosswords from the WSJ

This strongly recommended `omnibus' volume collects 250 Sunday-sized crosswords originally published in Friday issues of the Wall Street Journal between 2000 and 2006. These puzzles were originally reprinted in the first five spiral-bound, fifty-puzzle volumes of the WSJ series. I have been a fan of Editor Mike Shenk's puzzles since his 1980s work in Games Magazine. Top cruciverbalists like Brendan Emmett Quigley, Harvey Estes, Rich Norris, Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon feature prominently herein. Random House rates these puzzles as 'medium to hard' One puzzle appears on each page and all answers are in the back. Grids measure about 5" x 5". This is slim enough for most travelers yet still offers good value, costing less than a nickel per puzzle. Any financial references are basic and should not dissuade non-economists (for example one theme uses BULL and BEAR in several answers). I'm aware of the right-leaning politics of the WSJ newspaper editorial board but do not notice any traces of that in the WSJ puzzle. I look forward to a new puzzle online each Friday and consider it on par with the more famous Sunday one from the New York Times.

WSJ Crossword Omnibus

If you like WSJ crosswords, this book is a 9.9 out of 10. Only suggestion I have is to use spriral binding (like the smaller WSJ volumes) to make it easier to fold the book while working on the puzzles.

Finally, A Large Book of Wall St. Journal Crossword Puzzles

These are my favorite crossword puzzles---glad to find an omnibus of them finally.