{"id":19,"date":"2007-10-31T01:02:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T06:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/10\/31\/puzzle-17-halloween-formal\/"},"modified":"2010-10-16T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:09:43","slug":"puzzle-17-halloween-formal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/10\/31\/puzzle-17-halloween-formal\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #17: &#8220;Halloween Formal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HalloweenFormal.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HalloweenFormal-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"415\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>You might not have noticed without my reminder, but Halloween falls on October 31st this year, so we&#8217;re celebrating by giving you a special Halloween crossword puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a party, and we invite you to pull out your best fancy cape and buy your mummy a new mink wrap because it is strictly a formal affair.\u00c2\u00a0 (If you are in doubt about proper Halloween decorum, we invite you to check out <a title=\"Miss Manners' Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0393058743\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Manners&#8217; Guide<\/a> to Correctly Excruciating Behavior.)<\/p>\n<p>This crossword is a fully themed Times-style puzzle, stuffed chock-full of holiday goodness, and has been graded at roughly at Wednesday\/Thursday level of difficulty.\u00c2\u00a0 You can download it in <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HalloweenFormal.puz\">Across Lite format<\/a>, or as a <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HalloweenFormal-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG image<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: several people have asked for an answer key for this puzzle, and I&#8217;m happy to oblige.\u00c2\u00a0 You can download it <a title=\"Solution image\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/HalloweenFormal-solution.png\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might not have noticed without my reminder, but Halloween falls on October 31st this year, so we&#8217;re celebrating by giving you a special Halloween crossword puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a party, and we invite you to pull out your best fancy cape and buy your mummy a new mink wrap because it is strictly a formal [&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\/19"}],"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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}