{"id":181,"date":"2009-06-05T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T05:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-06-05T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T05:04:04","slug":"special-bonus-puzzle-1-themeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/06\/05\/special-bonus-puzzle-1-themeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Bonus Puzzle #1: Themeless"},"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\/ThemelessSpecial1.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ThemelessSpecial1.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #S1\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ThemelessSpecial1-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a treat for you this week.  In addition to the normal themed puzzle which we promise you every week, we are giving you a bonus theme<strong>less<\/strong> puzzle featuring a guest cluer.  Tuning Spork has just started publishing his own puzzles over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blatherreview.mu.nu\/\">Blather Review<\/a>, and definitely has a wicked way with a clue.  He consented to take it easy on us with this particular effort, thus keeping it down to a Thursday on the NYT scale.  However, &#8220;relatively easy&#8221; certainly doesn&#8217;t mean straightforward or boring &#8212; you are still in for a treat.  If you like what you see, head on over to his blog and give his puzzles a try.  You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Themeless Special #1<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Thursday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ThemelessSpecial1.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ThemelessSpecial1-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/ThemelessSpecial1-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a treat for you this week. In addition to the normal themed puzzle which we promise you every week, we are giving you a bonus themeless puzzle featuring a guest cluer. Tuning Spork has just started publishing his own puzzles over on the Blather Review, and definitely has a wicked way with 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\/181"}],"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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}