Easy as Pie Crosswords: Totally Easy!

What is Easy as Pie Crosswords: Totally Easy! about?

The grids sit at the easiest end of the American crossword scale, near or below the difficulty of a Monday newspaper puzzle, which puts them within reach of someone who has never finished a crossword. Stanley Newman fills them with everyday vocabulary and familiar names and clues them directly, so solving turns on recall rather than on unpicking wordplay or recognising the crosswordese that keeps beginners locked out of harder puzzles. The construction is standard American: symmetrical black-square patterns with every letter checked by both an across and a down answer, so a solver stuck in one direction can always work back from the other. Solutions are printed at the back.

Stanley Newman has edited the Newsday crossword since the late 1980s and is among the most prolific editors and compilers of puzzle collections in American crosswords.