{"id":245,"date":"2009-12-17T03:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2009-12-17T03:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:17:55","slug":"puzzle-126-nice-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2009\/12\/17\/puzzle-126-nice-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #126: &#8220;Nice Try&#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\/NiceTry.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/NiceTry.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #126\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/NiceTry-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frequently noted that there are very few new crossword themes.  Many puzzles are simple variants on a standard theme type, and often you will find that two completely independently conceived puzzles have practically identical theme entries.  This puzzle has one of those themes that you&#8217;d expect to show up periodically, so I had to do some checking.  I&#8217;m proud to say that while similar puzzles have been done, (AFAIK) none has used quite this form of theme.  Better yet, as far as my research has turned up, <strong>none<\/strong> of my theme entries has appeared in any other puzzles (as theme <em>or<\/em> normal entries).  Now all I have to do is figure out how to put the non-theme entries on a diet: go a month without filling up on junk food like OREOs, OLEO, COLA, SPAM, and AGAR GEL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Nice Try<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Wednesday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/NiceTry.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/NiceTry-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/NiceTry-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s frequently noted that there are very few new crossword themes. Many puzzles are simple variants on a standard theme type, and often you will find that two completely independently conceived puzzles have practically identical theme entries. This puzzle has one of those themes that you&#8217;d expect to show up periodically, so I had to [&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\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}