{"id":5,"date":"2007-07-25T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/07\/25\/puzzle-3-for-geeks-only\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:30:30","slug":"puzzle-3-for-geeks-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/07\/25\/puzzle-3-for-geeks-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #3: &#8220;For Geeks Only&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/GeeksOnly.puz\" title=\"Across Lite Puzzle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/GeeksOnly-small.png\" title=\"Puzzle #3 thumbnail\" alt=\"Puzzle #3 thumbnail\" align=\"left\" height=\"408\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a>Our third free crossword puzzle is a little bit different than the previous two.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s still a traditional themed crossword puzzle, and still aims to meet all the standard you&#8217;d expect from a professional publication.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s theme and clues are primarily oriented to appeal to computer\/web geeks.\u00c2\u00a0 For these folks, the puzzle should be as easy as a standard Tuesday or Wednesday NYT puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 Non-geek solvers should still be able to handle it without too much more difficulty, but it may be closer to Wednesday\/Thursday and the theme might not make much sense.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the puzzle is available in both <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/GeeksOnly.puz\" title=\"Across Lite Puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a> and as a printable <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/GeeksOnly-large.png\" title=\"PNG Image Puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">PNG file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers are encouraged to let me know what they think of this style of specialized puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 I probably won&#8217;t do them too often, but if I get reasonable feedback, I may revive them occasionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our third free crossword puzzle is a little bit different than the previous two.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s still a traditional themed crossword puzzle, and still aims to meet all the standard you&#8217;d expect from a professional publication.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s theme and clues are primarily oriented to appeal to computer\/web geeks.\u00c2\u00a0 For these folks, the puzzle should be [&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\/5"}],"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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}