O Canada Crosswords 6: 50 Wonderful Weekend-size Crosswords

Description

120 pages
$14.95
ISBN 0-88971-206-9
DDC 793.73'2

Publisher

Year

2006

Contributor

Reviewed by Steve Pitt

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Review

Do you know the five letter word for the surname of a Canadian tenor
whose first name is David? Can you think of a three-letter word for a
bird once native to Newfoundland’s Funk Island? Who was the Quebec
film director who was responsible for the movie The Barbarian Invasions?
Your weekend is cut out for you with O Canada Crossword.

Hamilton’s crossword puzzles are featured across Canada in many
newspapers including the Halifax Sunday Herald, The Toronto Star, and
the Calgary Sun. She is a self-confessed crossword addict and passionate
about her home and native (four letters, rhymes with band). Like the
previous five books in the series, these crosswords feature puzzles
solved by using words with a link to Canada. The solution could be
Canadian geography, place names, or history, or it could be the Canadian
spelling of an English or French word commonly heard in Canada.

These books are ideal for Canadian crossword fans who are tired of
being offered clues like “The Capital of Nebraska” or “Nickname
for short people from Glasgow.” If you do not know the site of the
world’s largest non-polar ice-field (hint: St. __ Mountains, Yukon),
the solutions to the puzzles are included at the back of the book.

Citation

Hamilton, Kathleen., “O Canada Crosswords 6: 50 Wonderful Weekend-size Crosswords,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed November 22, 2024, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/14991.