{"id":10,"date":"2007-08-29T04:49:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/08\/29\/puzzle-8-with-cat-like-tread\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T04:49:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:49:28","slug":"puzzle-8-with-cat-like-tread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/08\/29\/puzzle-8-with-cat-like-tread\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #8: &#8220;With Cat-Like Tread&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/CatLikeTread.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/CatLikeTread-small.png\" title=\"Puzzle #8\" alt=\"Puzzle #8\" align=\"left\" height=\"408\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a>In last week&#8217;s free crossword (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/08\/22\/puzzle-7-in-his-shoes\/\">In His Shoes<\/a>&#8220;), we gave you a Thursday-style theme, packed into a Tuesday level of difficulty (as measured on the venerable New York Times scale).\u00c2\u00a0 In the interests of mixing things up, this week&#8217;s puzzle gives you the sort of theme you might expect on a Tuesday, but keeps the interest level up by packing a lot of extra ELAN and BRIO into the non-theme entries.\u00c2\u00a0 The net result is a puzzle that tests out around a Thursday level of difficulty.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a lot of fun with this one, and I think that you will too.<\/p>\n<p>As always you have the option of grabbing the puzzle in <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/CatLikeTread.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a> &#8212; get the software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litsoft.com\/across\/alite\/download.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8212; or as a <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/CatLikeTread-large.png\" title=\"PNG image puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s free crossword (&#8220;In His Shoes&#8220;), we gave you a Thursday-style theme, packed into a Tuesday level of difficulty (as measured on the venerable New York Times scale).\u00c2\u00a0 In the interests of mixing things up, this week&#8217;s puzzle gives you the sort of theme you might expect on a Tuesday, but keeps the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}