From the very first crossword puzzle publisher comes this megacollection of puzzles to lease your brain and bend your mind!

Here are 225 of the toughest crosswords culled from out -- of -- print books in Simon & Schuster's challenging series. You wouldn't expect any less from this collection's top constructors -- wordplay of Sunday Times caliber to taunt and tantalize you for hours. As an added challenge, some of the crosswords have bonus rewards for a solving job well done -- quotations and quips from a wide range of sources woven into the answers. Eugene Maleska and John Samson make sure that you are thoroughly challenged by -- and totally engrossed inthese completely revised and updated puzzles.