{"id":145,"date":"2009-03-17T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:39:55","slug":"puzzle-89-emerald-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/03\/17\/puzzle-89-emerald-isle\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #89: “Emerald Isle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re posting this puzzle an hour early so that it will still by ST PAT’s day. But that’s not the only thing special about this puzzle. Put away your green beer and get out your four-leaf clovers, ’cause you may need all the luck you can get for this one. In response to audience demand, we’ve changed things up and made this puzzle annoyingly hard. Then again, in response to *other* audience demand, we’ve kept it just like it’s always been. The net result is that there are two versions of the puzzle: the hard one, which you’ll find in the applet above (unless you are in a non-java-capable browser or RSS reader) will hopefully annoy you; the easy one, which you can get by downloading the across lite puzzle or the PNG image, should be exciting yet comfortable. You can pick one or the other, or you can print out the easy version and use it to help you over the humps as you work the hard version on-line.<\/p>\n

We’d love to hear whether you prefer the easy version, the hard version, or both. If you don’t want to comment for the whole world to see, you can always mail us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In yet more<\/b> exciting news, Beekeeper Labs is pleased to announce that it has just release version 1.1 of the CrossFire crossword maker<\/a>. Amongst other new features, this release makes it much easier to create puzzles like this one, and gives customers access to the on-line solving applet that is used above. If this sounds exciting, you can download a trial version at the above link.<\/p>\n

Title<\/strong>: Emerald Isle
\nDifficulty (hard)<\/strong>: You tell us
\nDownload (hard)<\/strong>: Across Lite<\/a> or printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ solution<\/a>)
\nDifficulty (easy)<\/strong>: Tuesday
\nDownload (easy)<\/strong>: Across Lite<\/a> or printable PNG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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