{"id":175,"date":"2009-05-19T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-05-19T23:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T04:58:05","slug":"puzzle-97-existential-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/05\/19\/puzzle-97-existential-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #97: &#8220;Existential Angst&#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\/ExistentialAngst.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #97\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>To be, or not to be.  That is the question&#8230;.that is better asked of a Shakespeare scholar than of this lowly puzzle constructor.  Thus I&#8217;ll put away my slings and arrows; stop playing the lottery in hope of an outrageous fortune; and simply give you a crossword.  Thus, you may take up pens against a sea of troublesome clues and, by scribbling in the boxes, solve them.  And we have it on good authority that this weeks clues are indeed troublesome &#8212; our testers proclaimed the puzzle to be seriously abusive and rated it at a Saturday on the NYT difficulty scale.  (Luckily, if such a challenge seems beyond you, we&#8217;ve prepared a simpler set of clues which you can find by following the &#8220;easy&#8221; links below.  The choice is yours.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Existential Angst<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty (hard)<\/strong>: Saturday<br \/>\n<strong>Download (hard)<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst-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\/ExistentialAngst-easy.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ExistentialAngst-easy-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be, or not to be. That is the question&#8230;.that is better asked of a Shakespeare scholar than of this lowly puzzle constructor. Thus I&#8217;ll put away my slings and arrows; stop playing the lottery in hope of an outrageous fortune; and simply give you a crossword. Thus, you may take up pens against 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\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}