{"id":171,"date":"2009-05-12T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-05-12T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T04:05:39","slug":"puzzle-96-how-do-you-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/05\/12\/puzzle-96-how-do-you-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #96: &#8220;How Do You Like It?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><applet mayscript name=\"CrossYYYs\" code=\"com.beekeeper.xwd.CrossYYYsApplet\" codebase=\".\" archive=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/CrossYYYsApplet.jar\" height=\"461\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"puzzle\" value=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #96\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>Well, how <em>do<\/em> you like it?  If you like your crosswords hard, we can give you hard.  If you like &#8217;em easy, we can give you somewhat easy-ish.  <insert evil grin>  But mostly we hope that you like them full of lively words and cleverly annoying word-play, &#8217;cause that&#8217;s what we aim to give you in spades, shovels, and clubs.  If you are working the hard version, the management makes no apologies for 41 across: if you don&#8217;t understand it, look it up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: How Do You Like It?<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty (hard)<\/strong>: Friday<br \/>\n<strong>Download (hard)<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty (easy)<\/strong>: Wednesday<br \/>\n<strong>Download (easy)<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt-easy.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HowDoYouLikeIt-easy-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, how do you like it? If you like your crosswords hard, we can give you hard. If you like &#8217;em easy, we can give you somewhat easy-ish. But mostly we hope that you like them full of lively words and cleverly annoying word-play, &#8217;cause that&#8217;s what we aim to give you in spades, shovels, [&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\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}