{"id":13,"date":"2007-09-18T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/09\/18\/puzzle-11-talk-like-a-pirate\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:24:17","slug":"puzzle-11-talk-like-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/09\/18\/puzzle-11-talk-like-a-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #11: &#8220;Talk Like a Pirate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Pirates.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Pirates-small.png\" title=\"Puzzle #11\" alt=\"Puzzle #11\" align=\"left\" height=\"408\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a>Avast, ye slavering sea-dogs.\u00c2\u00a0 Prepare to be cast ASEA.\u00c2\u00a0 In case ye didn&#8217;t be knowin&#8217; already, September 19th be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And so, for all of my fine cruciverbilizin&#8217; cronies, I be casting out a crossword challenge.\u00c2\u00a0 Hoist the JIB, watch out for the stray ERNE, and join me in a piratical themed puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll not be having no lily-livered land-lubbers be squalling for mercy, however &#8212; this ain&#8217;t no sissy classroom puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a full-fledged Times-style crossword puzzle such as Peter PAN might have suffered at the hands of the dreaded CAP&#8217;N Henry Hook.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Stock up on grog, sharpen your sword, and heave to, for there will be no quarter given today, me lads.<\/p>\n<p>You may find the puzzle in <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Pirates.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a> (ye&#8217;d best be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/membercenter\/help\/litsoft.html\" title=\"Across Lite 2.0 software download\" target=\"_blank\">version 2.0<\/a>, if&#8217;n ye don&#8217;t already have it), or ye can download both <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Pirates-large.png\" title=\"PNG image puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">the puzzle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Pirates-solution.png\" title=\"Solution key\" target=\"_blank\">the solution<\/a> in printable PNG format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avast, ye slavering sea-dogs.\u00c2\u00a0 Prepare to be cast ASEA.\u00c2\u00a0 In case ye didn&#8217;t be knowin&#8217; already, September 19th be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.\u00c2\u00a0 And so, for all of my fine cruciverbilizin&#8217; cronies, I be casting out a crossword challenge.\u00c2\u00a0 Hoist the JIB, watch out for the stray ERNE, and join me in a [&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\/13"}],"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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}