{"id":8,"date":"2007-08-15T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/08\/15\/puzzle-6-say-what\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:17:31","slug":"puzzle-6-say-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2007\/08\/15\/puzzle-6-say-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #6: &#8220;Say What&#8230;.?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/SayWhat.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/SayWhat-small.png\" align=\"left\" height=\"408\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a>This week&#8217;s free crossword has a bit of extra pizazz to it.  Inspired by a discussion by the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruciverb.com\/\" title=\"Cruciverb.com\" target=\"_blank\">cruciverb.com<\/a> &#8212; a wonderful site &#8212; I decided to make a puzzle with full (90\u00c2\u00b0) rotational symmetry rather than the standard (180\u00c2\u00b0) symmetry.  This doesn&#8217;t affect you as a solver much, but it does make the grid a little bit prettier, and that&#8217;s always a nice thing.  Don&#8217;t worry &#8212; the puzzle is still strongly themed, if a bit easier than many you&#8217;ll find here.  (I&#8217;d put it as a Tuesday\/Wednesday on the NYT scale.)<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you have your choice of <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/SayWhat.puz\" title=\"Across Lite puzzle\">Across Lite format<\/a> or printable <a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/SayWhat-large.png\" title=\"PNG image puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">PNG image<\/a>, and (also as usual) I welcome any comments you might have on the puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s free crossword has a bit of extra pizazz to it. Inspired by a discussion by the folks at cruciverb.com &#8212; a wonderful site &#8212; I decided to make a puzzle with full (90\u00c2\u00b0) rotational symmetry rather than the standard (180\u00c2\u00b0) symmetry. This doesn&#8217;t affect you as a solver much, but it does make [&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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}