{"id":1050,"date":"2025-07-25T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:02:42","slug":"puzzle-138-stained-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/puzzle-138-stained-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #138: Stained Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRD0-GxqHVo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/variety-solver?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/stained_glass.vpuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last time we ran a seven sages puzzle, our friend Kelsey suggested we call it a &#8220;stained glass&#8221; puzzle instead. I think this makes sense, since &#8220;seven sages&#8221; really only applies if the included quote is sage advice somehow. The quote in this puzzle most definitely is not. How does this work?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each answer in this puzzle is seven letters long and encircles the correspondingly numbered space, reading either clockwise (+) or counterclockwise (-) as indicated. The starting point of each answer is for you to determine. When the grid is correctly filled in, the letters in the outermost ring (reading clockwise from answer 1) will spell out a quote by Mitch Hedberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks go out to Quiara for testing this! Did you know she <a href=\"https:\/\/quitevexing.substack.com\/\">has a substack<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If you like variety puzzles, we&#8217;re offering a bunch as part of the charity puzzle pack we&#8217;re giving to anyone who makes a donation of any size to <a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.com\/alexboisvert\/Donate\">Alex&#8217;s triathlon fundraiser<\/a>. We think you&#8217;ll like it!<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like acrostic puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/crosswordnexus\">Join our Patreon!<\/a><br \/>\nDo you want a place to discuss puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/ep2J3KXcmM\">Join our Discord!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/variety-solver?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/stained_glass.vpuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Last time we ran a seven sages puzzle, our friend Kelsey suggested we call it a &#8220;stained glass&#8221; puzzle instead. I think this makes sense, since &#8220;seven sages&#8221; really only applies if the included quote is sage advice somehow. The quote in this puzzle most definitely is not. How does this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/puzzle-138-stained-glass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #138: Stained Glass&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-seven-sages","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}