Even if you’re not the crossword type, you can bet there’s someone in your life who spends every day on the metro working out the puzzle on the back page or carries around their own crossword book for downtime mental aerobics. When my brother was in grad school, he spent a whole semester creating and painting his own crossword puzzle on the dorm suite’s wall (never finished, of course, because the thing was just too ridiculously big). But it was a great idea — and one that’s now available out of the box in a seven foot square.
The World’s Largest Crossword Puzzle, smacking down the 1996 Guinness record for most monstrous crossword, is loaded with 28,000 clues and over 91,000 squares.
Accompanied by a 100-page clue book, the puzzle makes no repeat word performances and promises to keep you working for ages to fill in all of the blanks. And if you’re not the type to keep your brilliance on display for visitors to gawk at, the sturdy paper stock crossword easily folds up for storage — it even comes with a storage box.
For $29.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer, this is a homerun gift for any crossword fiend (here’s to hoping my brother doesn’t read this before Christmas).
