{"id":22,"date":"2007-11-21T00:49:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/11\/21\/puzzle-20-stop-pay-troll\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T00:49:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T05:49:54","slug":"puzzle-20-stop-pay-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/11\/21\/puzzle-20-stop-pay-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #20: &#8220;Stop.  Pay Troll.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/StopPayTroll.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\"><img src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/StopPayTroll-small.png\" title=\"Puzzle #20\" alt=\"Puzzle #20\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>&#8220;And what&#8221;, you might ask, &#8220;do you have for us this week?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Well, we&#8217;re glad that you asked.\u00c2\u00a0 What we&#8217;ve got is 36 black squares, 189 white squares, and 76 clues &#8212; all artfully arranged in such a way as to maximize your solving pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;But you just described an ordinary crossword puzzle, right?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Well, perhaps, but I could just as easily be describing a most excellent crossword puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 You get to decide for yourself which one this is.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you figure it out, feel free to let us know.\u00c2\u00a0 The comment section is always open.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the full complement of black squares, white squares and clues in either of two formats.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00c2\u00a0 go for the <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/StopPayTroll.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a>, you even get answers to go with it.\u00c2\u00a0 If you opt for the <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/StopPayTroll-large.png\" title=\"Printable PNG puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG image<\/a>, you&#8217;ll just have to rough it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And what&#8221;, you might ask, &#8220;do you have for us this week?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Well, we&#8217;re glad that you asked.\u00c2\u00a0 What we&#8217;ve got is 36 black squares, 189 white squares, and 76 clues &#8212; all artfully arranged in such a way as to maximize your solving pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;But you just described an ordinary crossword puzzle, right?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Well, [&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\/22"}],"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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}