{"id":194,"date":"2009-07-02T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T07:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-07-02T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T07:07:20","slug":"puzzle-103-trident-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/07\/02\/puzzle-103-trident-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #103: &#8220;Trident Please&#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\/TridentPlease.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/TridentPlease.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #103\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/TridentPlease-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>The joys of being a crossword constructor are a mixed bag.  Slaving over a cantankerous grid trying to get just the right fill can be satisfying or frustrating depending on your mood and how soon you have to publish the danged thing.  Finding a clue for OLEO that hasn&#8217;t been used 500 times already is mostly just annoying.  However, sometimes you get to write a clue like &#8220;Circumnavigatory desire?&#8221; (39 across).   [No, the answer isn&#8217;t OLEO.  Try to keep up with me here.] There just aren&#8217;t a lot of other avocations in which you can use a word or a phrase like that one, much less be able to justify doing so.  Such rewards are just bound to brighten a cruciverbalist&#8217;s day.  (We&#8217;ve heard tell, however, that some people think us a bit eccentric.  We&#8217;re not sure why.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Trident Please<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Thursday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/TridentPlease.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/TridentPlease-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/TridentPlease-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joys of being a crossword constructor are a mixed bag. Slaving over a cantankerous grid trying to get just the right fill can be satisfying or frustrating depending on your mood and how soon you have to publish the danged thing. Finding a clue for OLEO that hasn&#8217;t been used 500 times already is [&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\/194"}],"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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}