Misprints

"Misprints" in a Sentence (13 examples)

As it was printed in haste, the book has many misprints.

There are a few books, but they have some misprints.

This book has few, if any, misprints.

There are some misprints, but all in all, it's a good book.

There are few books without misprints.

There are almost no books that have no misprints.

There are few books that have no misprints.

Tom's summaries are always full of misprints.

Some of the book's pages have misprints.

There are misprints on some of the book's pages.

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A few used TOAST (again with drinking connotations) as misprint for ROAST, failing to spot perhaps that it is itself a passable definition of SWEAL and therefore less effective, if acceptable at all, in a misprints clue.

Ximenes introduced several new types of crossword including 'Misprints' in which misprints occur in either the clues or the answers; he also started competitions for clue-setting which became very popular among solvers.

I had a go at setting more of his specialised crosswords and then one day I had the luck to hit the jackpot. I set a Misprints puzzle and, when he returned it, Ximenes enclosed a four page letter.

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