The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Wednesday Crosswords: 50 Medium-Level Puzzles (The New York Times Crossword Puzzles) Spiral-bound – May 16, 2017

For vacations we use these easy puzzles, hand puppets and down pillows for our trip survival kit. The books we play as a group and they are easy enough for the kids to get some of the answers, the puppets are for adults and kids to entertain people and kids in other cars and the pillows are for fights at stops. A quick fight at the far end of the parking lot and we are good for more sitting. Enjoy!

Love my nyt crossword books! Can't go wrong with these!

I really enjoy these puzzles. They are tough but not frustratingly difficult. You do have to think “outside the box.” The print and size of the boxes is nice and easy to fill in. I think the only thing I don’t like about this series of puzzles is that they often have a theme or something running through them that when you see them in the paper, that is at the top of the puzzle and in this book, that is not. You have to figure it out as you go. Maybe that is part of the challenge?

I found the Wednesday puzzles to be a great level of challenge, although there is some variety within the book itself (some puzzles I could do in one sitting, some took me several days). The spiral binding is fantastic and the pages are a good quality. They can stand up to being erased a few times over. My only wish is that the year the puzzle was written would be included on each page, which might provide some assistance in figuring out some clues!

Who doesn't love Wednesday puzzles? Not too hard, and not too easy. Not too many tricks, yet challenging. Nice collection!

M;y husband used to do the Times crossword when he commuted to work on the train. He is now retired, and I wanted him to keep his brain agile, so I ordered best of week as I figured he could try it and if he liked it there are other days as a variation. He absolutely loves it and does a crossword each day with his coffee, after breakfast.Decent size, easy to read, good crosswords - typical Times.

I feel like these are fairly harder than I expected. Some of the clues are WAY out there. Maybe I'm just not used to the NYT puzzles, but I have NEVER heard of some of these answers. I will give it one more try and maybe start with a Monday edition instead of the Wednesday.

I love the NYT crossword puzzles but sometimes find that the Friday and weekend versions are too difficult. The clues are too obscure (you know, second wife of the king of Bulgaria in 1355 - who knows that stuff?). But I do love a challenge and especially like when they have themes or use double entendres as clues. I recommend Tuesday (easier) and Wednesday and Thursday (perfect). The spiral binding and larger print is nice, too.