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The Puzzle Arbor Crossword Series

The Great American Songbook

60 Crossword Puzzles

The Songs We Still Know by Heart. Step into Tin Pan Alley and sit down at the piano with Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Dance to the big bands, hear the crooners and the great jazz singers, and take a seat on opening night of Broadway’s classic musicals and Hollywood’s golden-age films. These 60 crosswords celebrate the songwriters, singers and shows of the Great American Songbook, from sheet music and Your Hit Parade to White Christmas and Over the Rainbow.

Each puzzle has a short fact about its subject above the grid, and every grid is large, with its clues on the same two-page spread.

10 sections

  1. Tin Pan Alley
  2. Songwriters
  3. More Great Songwriters
  4. The Singers
  5. The Big Band Era
  6. Broadway
  7. Hollywood Musicals
  8. Songs for Every Season
  9. Jazz and Standards
  10. Curtain Call
Format
6×9 paperback, 142 pages, easy-reader format
Inside
60 crosswords in ten sections, each on a two-page spread
Grids
Large 13×13 grids with the clues on the facing page
Facts
A checked fact about each subject above every grid
Answers
Full answer key
ISBN
979-8953558310

A look inside

Sample pages

Puzzle 1: the grid
Puzzle 1: the grid
Puzzle 1: the clues, on the facing page
Puzzle 1: the clues, on the facing page

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