{"id":212,"date":"2009-08-27T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T05:15:32","slug":"puzzle-111-all-of-the-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/08\/27\/puzzle-111-all-of-the-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #111: &#8220;All of the Above&#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\/AllOfTheAbove.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/AllOfTheAbove.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #111\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/AllOfTheAbove-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>When you are trying to come up with themes on a regular basis, you&#8217;ll take your ideas anywhere that you can get them.  This one was very straightforward.  I spotted a much-repeated topical phrase in the news which was exactly 15 letters long.  Perfect!  All I needed was three more phrases that were somehow similar, 68 other interesting words and 36 black squares to fill in the <strong>rest<\/strong> of the white space in the grid, and I was set.  Really, once you have the first 15 letters, it&#8217;s all clean sailing from there.  \ud83d\ude42  Well, in actually, the two of similar phrases ended up being thirteen letters long, which meant that the black squares didn&#8217;t fall into place as neatly as they should; the third similar phrase started playing hide-and-seek for a while; and then all the other words started getting uppity &#8212; so it was more like clear sailing through a piranha infested swamp.  But still, in <em>principle<\/em> it was all nice and easy.  And principles are important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: All of the Above<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Thursday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/AllOfTheAbove.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/AllOfTheAbove-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/AllOfTheAbove-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are trying to come up with themes on a regular basis, you&#8217;ll take your ideas anywhere that you can get them. This one was very straightforward. I spotted a much-repeated topical phrase in the news which was exactly 15 letters long. Perfect! All I needed was three more phrases that were somehow similar, [&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\/212"}],"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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}