Why Must Read The New York Times Supersized Book of Sunday Crosswords: 500 Puzzles (New York Times Crossword Puzzles)?

I have done crosswords for many years and have even tolerated the recent Google-assisted mass production of puzzles, but this book is insufferable. All its puzzles are not “crossword puzzles” but “cross-sentence puzzles” as they contain lengthy and ridiculous wordplay or meaningless sentences and far-fetched clues, while the small number of straight clues does not enable one even to start figuring out such aberrations. When creators are in a hurry they create onomatopoetic entries that obviously do not appear in any dictionary and arbitrary abbreviations (the first three letters of any word are considered an abbreviation!). Also, a few of the puzzles’ creators even resort to providing answers in foreign languages. A new twist is the clue starts a sentence that only the Delphic Oracle could imagine how to complete it. Quite a lot of entries contain urban slang or words that exist only in the creator’s mind. The majority of the rest of the clues come from pop culture hinting at some character on a TV show, movie, play, novel, sports team, etc., and their relatives. On the other hand, some puzzles require deep scholarly knowledge. Thus neither a celeb wannabe nor an educated person can deal with such puzzles. Finally, in some puzzles icons, whole words or dots are substituted for letters in some squares!