Ideal if you know the length and first letter of the word

More than 120,000 words and phrases are listed alphabetically and by number of letters under a wide variety of category headings, including Presidents of the USA, Greek and Roman Gods, Breeds of Pig and Characters from Opera. Locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick and easy as intersecting solutions provide letters of the unanswered clue.

The Bloomsbury Anagram Finder is an aid to this often time-consuming and frustrating aspect of completing a crossword. It contains over 200,000 words, and phrases, including plural forms of nouns, palindromes, words of sixteen letters and over, backwords, all parts of speech, Christian names and idioms. The anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain, from 'if' and 'dean' to 'coffee-table book' and 'take the rough with the smooth', with the letters set out in alphabetical order. So once the letters of a crossword anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating a word in a dictionary. Together with Bloomsbury's Crossword Solver and Crossword Lists, the Anagram Finder will prove invaluable to both beginners and experienced crossworders. Good luck with future crosswords!*

This guide to crosswords consists of more than 10,000 words specifically designed to help crossword-puzzle and word-game fans. The words are organized into sections by length and, in some cases, plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives are also included.

This is a combination of two crossword books, Bloomsbury Crossword Lists and Bloomsbury Crossword Solver. The former is a collection of over 100,000 words listed by word length under 100s of thematic categories - people, places, birds, animals, names of drinks, gemstones, palindromes, homophones, foreign words and phrases and so on. It also contains hints on solving cryptic clues and a selection of the conventions used by setters of crosswords.

This title offers hundreds of examples to illustrate how crossword clues work and helps readers understand how crosswords are created and how to interpret the clues.

This crossword dictionary contains 200,000 entries, including synonyms, anagrams and plays on words listed under 18,000 headwords, arranged alphabetically. What makes the book unique is crossword enthusiast Anne Bradford's 35 years of careful analysis of real crossword clues. This is why Bradford's includes so many obscure words and puns, unlisted in other crossword dictionaries. '…an excellent reference work… this book is wholeheartedly recommended.' - 1 Across