{"id":206,"date":"2009-08-13T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-08-13T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T05:32:34","slug":"puzzle-108-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/08\/13\/puzzle-108-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #109: &#8220;Appreciation&#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\/Appreciation.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Appreciation.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #109\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Appreciation-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>There are some conventions that show up in crosswords that vary in popularity.  For example, in this puzzle there are four pairs of clues that explicitly refer to each other in various ways.  I&#8217;ve found that some people like this sort of thing, since it unifies different parts of the puzzle.  Others describe might it as simply annoying or even lazy.  Obviously I lean towards the former view, or I wouldn&#8217;t keep using the technique, but here&#8217;s your chance to express your opinion:  do you like these sorts of clues, hate them, or just contentedly take whatever we throw at you without worrying about it much?  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Appreciation<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Thursday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Appreciation.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Appreciation-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/Appreciation-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some conventions that show up in crosswords that vary in popularity. For example, in this puzzle there are four pairs of clues that explicitly refer to each other in various ways. I&#8217;ve found that some people like this sort of thing, since it unifies different parts of the puzzle. Others describe might it [&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\/206"}],"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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}