Nightwood Editions is proud to present its annual O&nbsp;Canada Crosswords release with Gwen Sjogren's tenth book in the series, which features 100 puzzles and over 12,600 clues. If you're counting, 23.5 percent of the clues focus on Canadian references, and you can&nbsp;depend 100&nbsp;percent on Sjogren's usual mix of witty wordplay and unique themes. Here's a taste to wet your whistle: Animals - Horsing Around & Coming out of Their Shells Food - I'm Stuffed & Cropping Up Holidays - Santa Claus Is Coming & Yummy Yuletide Puns - Hockey Hall of Blame & Piracy? Royalty - The Queen's English & Put Up Your Dukes Sports -&nbsp;Good Sports & Puttering Around TV - Is There a Doctor in the House? & Channel Surfing Seven of the forty-six Canada Cornucopia puzzles offer the challenge of no fill-in-the-blank clues. And in the fifty-four themed puzzles, Sjogren makes a meal of new Canadiana, including cartoonists, stamps, money and geographical references from across the country. So if you're hungry for some brainteasing trivia, take a bite out of O Canada Crosswords Book 21!

O Canada Crosswords Book 21 (O Canada Crosswords, 21)

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Sjogren, Gwen

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Nightwood Editions

Ready, set, solve! Tipping the scales at 100 puzzles with over 10,000 clues, this is the largest O Canada Crosswords volume in over a decade! Featuring Canadian and fun-themed puzzles and packed with more wordplay and Canadiana than ever before, O Canada Crosswords 12 will satisfy diehard fans of the series and newcomers alike. Long-time Canadian crossword designer Gwen Sjogren brings her challenging combination of fun, puns and trivia to this series. From Canadian inventions to esteemed Olympians, iconic TV luminaries to big cities and small towns, Sjogren scours our country for the people, places and things that make Canada unique, resulting in a truly Canadian addition to this ever-popular series.

O Canada Crosswords Book 12: 100 All New Crosswords

It's lucky 13 for the latest instalment of the bestselling O Canada Crosswords series. This volume features 100 puzzles for solvers from coast to coast, including 67 with full-on national content. Solvers can take a trip to the nation's capital with Destination: Ottawa. Savour true Canadian flavour with For the Foodies and Eponymous Edibles. Test your IQ about famous Canadians with two Who Am I? puzzles. And of course there's author Gwen Sjogren's usual array of True North nods to books, sports, people and places. In addition, this volume offers 33 themed puzzles that focus on fun, like some wicked wordplay in Double Up and Piracy?, palindromes in Ekal Lake, et al., plus a quick trip south of the border in All-American and Red, White and Blue. To top it all off, solvers will enjoy some House Hunting, Orienteering and Horsing Around, too! O Canada Crosswords 13 invites any crossword fan to a Canadian feast of epic proportions, one that will leave you at once sated and wanting seconds.

O Canada Crosswords Book 13: 100 All New Crosswords

Book 14 is packed with all the trivia, puns and fun that solvers love (and sometimes love to hate!). Thirty-four Canadian-themed crosswords key on well-known places, people and events, with titles including The Wonder of Canada, When Brian's Eyes Are Smiling, Exposed and Fields of Dreams. Thirty-two universal crosswords offer even more Canadian content. Author Gwen Sjogren rounds out this collection with 34 fun-themed puzzles. Whether you're a fan of song and dance, dogs or drama, you'll enjoy entries like Birdbrained '60s Songs, You Should Be Dancing, Westminster Winner's Circle and Building a Mystery. To recognize the big anniversary, puzzle #100 honours this landmark year--so join the party with 100 new crosswords that engage your brain.

O Canada Crosswords Book 14: 100 All New Crosswords

With eighty-five all new crosswords, Gwen Sjogren's O Canada Crosswords Book 15 features plenty of puns and challenging wordplay for Canadian solvers from coast to coast. The specifically Canadian-themed crosswords cover writers, landmarks, music and cities, and include puzzles called Shining in Sochi, Leading Canadian Men, National Parks and Playing for Keeps (about hockey stars who never left their teams). This cornucopia of Canadiana covers new ground with themes on music, awards, tennis and exports that require a certain measure of Canuck knowledge. Gwen Sjogren has garnered the respect of her devoted crossword fans by crafting clever clues and thoughtful themes, wordplay, puzzle design and trivia. In addition to the favourite layouts, Book 15 contains ten puzzles that have no fill-in-the-blank clues. For people who love witty brainteasers, O Canada Crosswords 15 is the ultimate collection.

O Canada Crosswords Book 15

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This latest instalment of the bestselling O Canada Crosswords series serves up an appetizing palate of Canadiana, pop culture and whimsical wordplay. Canadian themes touch on hockey, music, industry and places, and author Gwen Sjogren brings to the table several of her trademark pun puzzles like Money Changes Everything and Fit for a Witch. Seven grids have built-in shapes that enhance the rich flavour of this collection, including circle-in-the-square anagrams and the unique Breaking All the Rules--of crossword design, that is! 
 Sjogren takes a new approach to some non-themed Canada Cornucopia crosswords as "Challengers" and "Superchallengers" that give solvers a taste of something different. "Challengers" have seven or fewer three-letter answers; "Superchallengers" up the ante with fewer three-letter words and no fill-in-the-blank clues, either. 
 Packed with 100 puzzles, including 67 large-sized grids, O Canada Crosswords 16 offers a smorgasbord of 11,000+ clues for hours of crossword solving delight.

O Canada Crosswords Book 16 (Cross Canada Crosswords)

Puns, fun and Canadiana-they're all standing on guard for solvers in O Canada Crosswords 17. These ninety-five new crosswords provide a playful mix of sixty-five Canadian- and other-themed puzzles in larger grids, plus thirty non-themed Canada Cornucopia crosswords. 
 For anyone passionate about puzzles, author Gwen Sjogren's books are a go-to source for an invigorating crossword-solving experience. This collection taps Canadian themes like Retail Therapy, NHL Icons, Power to the People and Urban Islands, as well as whimsical offerings like Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Loco Loci and You Had Me at Hello.
 To further put solvers' wits to the test, ten crosswords have no fill-in-the-blank clues. And for an added element of intrigue, Sjogren debuts "Puzzle Link-up" where figuring out the themes of four consecutive puzzles allows solvers to unlock the theme of a fifth. 
 So get your pencil (or pen) ready, engage your brain and see thee rise to the challenge of O Canada Crosswords Book 17!

O Canada Crosswords Book 17 (O Canada Crosswords, 17)

Climb aboard the O Canada Crosswords express and embrace the adventure of 100 new crosswords. The 18th instalment of this popular series features several wordplay puzzles--including "Rank and Guile," "Sounds Fishy to Me" and "Forecast: Fun!"--as well as a suitcase full of Canadiana like "Quotable Notables," "Witty Women," "Au Naturel" and "Great Scotts!" Along the way, you'll stop off in Hamilton and Quebec, disembark at Rio to relive Canada's Olympic achievements and detour to Sweden to celebrate hockey stars who lit up the NHL. 
 Fifteen puzzles veer off the beaten track, including four circle-in-the-square offerings, and three with hidden shapes or phrases embedded in the grids. For an extra cerebral challenge, five puzzles have no fill-in-the-blank clues. Author Gwen Sjogren also debuts a new format called Four-Square, in which solvers complete four mini puzzles to unlock a CanCon phrase. 
 With 97 larger grids, O Canada Crosswords Book 18 takes you on brainteasing journey across 13,000+ clues. So punch your ticket for hours of trivia, puns and fun!

O Canada Crosswords Book 18

Featuring 2,600-plus Canadian clues―that’s over 20 per cent of the total―the nineteenth instalment of this popular series offers a motherlode of national content, puns and fun. As always, author Gwen Sjogren digs deep into the Canadian landscape with geography themes like “Water Marks,” “Destination: Fredericton” and “Go West, Young Scot,” and taps famous Canadians in “Great Ones of the NHL,” “Broadway Lights” and “Money Men.” She mines new Canadiana with markets, national honours and biographies. In a similar vein, this collection features fifty “Canada Cornucopia” entries which provide as much CanCon as Sjogren can pack in.
 Generic-themed crosswords including “Cleanup on Aisle Pun,” “Hat Tricks” and “The Gods Must Be Crazy” drill down into wordplay. And to help solvers unearth their superior skills, five crosswords have no fill-in-the-blank clues.
 With one hundred large-sized grids, this book is bursting at the seams with hours of brain-teasing amusement.

O Canada Crosswords Book 19

Over 250,000 O Canada Crosswords books sold in twenty years! O Canada Crosswords rides again with the twenty-second instalment of this popular series, which features large-sized puzzles split between Canadian and other themes. With over 20 per cent of the clues focusing on Canadiana, you'll be chomping at the bit as author Gwen Sjogren harnesses her usual fodder of fresh themes and witty wordplay, including the following: <ul> <li>National Pride - Inventive Ideas & Trivia Pursuit</li> <li>Music - Carols of the Belles & The Sounds of Music</li> <li>Puns - The Spies Have It & Tokens of Affection</li> <li>Language - Here vs. There & Buzzwords</li> <li>Letter Play - Au Jus & A Prickly Puzzle</li> <li>Family - Mom's the Word & Word Families</li> <li>Geography - Streetwise & Du You Know the Way</li> <li>Food - Cooking Up a Storm & Breakfast Buffet</li> </ul> This collection also ropes in cultural highlights and notables of the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s in eight themed puzzles. And Sjogren gallops to the finish line with some specialty grids embedded with shaded squares, circles and ampersands, plus Four-Square, which features four mini-grids. So get back in the saddle with O Canada Crosswords Book 22--you're sure to enjoy the ride!

O Canada Crosswords Book 22 (O Canada Crosswords, 22)

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