{"id":12,"date":"2007-09-12T05:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/09\/12\/puzzle-10-id-like-to-buy-an\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T10:25:56","slug":"puzzle-10-id-like-to-buy-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/09\/12\/puzzle-10-id-like-to-buy-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #10: &#8220;I&#8217;d Like to Buy an&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/BuyAn.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\"><img src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/BuyAn-small.png\" title=\"Puzzle #10\" alt=\"Puzzle #10\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Okay, this isn&#8217;t really &#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t even &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsdocrosswords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merv Griffin&#8217;s Crosswords<\/a>&#8221; (because we&#8217;ll always include a theme in every puzzle).\u00c2\u00a0 However, this week&#8217;s free crossword puzzle would still give Vanna a bit of exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 Our exhaustive lab testing reveals that this one rates around a Wednesday on the NYT difficulty scale, with an entertaining mix of relaxing and challenging clues.\u00c2\u00a0 (Thanks go out to Martha for assistance with the cluing on this puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 I appreciate the help.)<\/p>\n<p>You are encouraged to download the puzzle in <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/BuyAn.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a>, but it is also available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/BuyAn-large.png\" title=\"PNG Image puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t really &#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t even &#8220;Merv Griffin&#8217;s Crosswords&#8221; (because we&#8217;ll always include a theme in every puzzle).\u00c2\u00a0 However, this week&#8217;s free crossword puzzle would still give Vanna a bit of exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 Our exhaustive lab testing reveals that this one rates around a Wednesday on the NYT difficulty scale, with an [&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\/12"}],"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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}