Peter Gordon is the Editorial Director of Puzzlewright Press. His crosswords have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, and numerous puzzle magazines, including Games, where he was an editor for seven years. Gordon was a member of the winning US teams at the 1990 International Crossword Marathon in Bjelovar, Yugoslavia. His titles include Hall of Fame Crosswords, Yahtzee Scratch & Play, Match Wits with Mensa: Test Your Trivia Smarts, and Verbiage for the Verbose; he is also the co-author of Solitaire Battleships, Scrabble-doku, and the Puzzlewright Guide to Solving Sudoku. He writes a weekly current-events crossword for The Week.
"A book of Fireball Crosswords? Oh, no, what a terrible idea. I
need to have a week or two in between these puzzles, or else I'd be
unable to get anything else done--they're that addictive. Readers,
hear me: Ration yourselves!"
-Jon Delfin, seven-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
champion "Peter Gordon has a remarkable talent for tough (sometimes
very tough) but fair cluing. His Fireball Crosswords are inevitably
challenging and original. These are some great puzzles--I wish
every puzzle editor aspired to this level of quality."
-Eric Berlin, author of The Puzzling World of Winston Breen "Peter
Gordon's Fireball Crosswords are among the very few that I solve
regularly just for fun. I enjoy both the tough themelesses and the
sparklingly innovative themes that Gordon and his constructing crew
consistently come up with."
-Stanley Newman, crossword editor, Newsday
"These ain't your grandma's crosswords--unless your grandma is
awesome and likes awesome puzzles."
-Brian Cimmet, Lollapuzzoola co-director "I like my puzzles
devilishly hard. So I thank Satan for Peter Gordon and Fireball
Crosswords, the toughest, cleverest puzzles under the sun."
-Lou Kesten, The Associated Press
"These are daring, first-rate puzzles. They are fresh, smart, and
contemporary, and they go places that newspaper puzzles don't,
won't, or can't. Every serious crossword enthusiast I know is a
Fireball subscriber. If you want to know what the cutting edge of
crossword construction in America looks like, just open this book
and start solving."
-Michael Sharp, aka Rex Parker, author of the crossword blog "Rex
Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle" "Fireball puzzles are hot.
If, like me, you're a crossword geek who needs something to keep
yourself challenged Mondays through Thursdays, they're the perfect
solution."
-Daniel Okrent, former public editor of the New York Times and
author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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