{"id":1117,"date":"2026-01-02T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:23:18","slug":"puzzle-145-bearing-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/puzzle-145-bearing-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #145: Bearing Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Krgbx4SYnVg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/bearing_fruit.ipuz\">Solve this puzzle online<\/a> &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Happy 2026 everyone! If you&#8217;re looking for a New Year&#8217;s Resolution, may I suggest dropping Across Lite for good? <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jpd236\/xword\/releases\/tag\/0.8.5\">XWord is an excellent option<\/a>, and of course there&#8217;s always the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/\">Crossword Nexus Solver<\/a>, which you can install to your Desktop if you&#8217;d like. The fewer people solving on Across Lite, the better chance we have to move away from .puz files once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>Two programming notes &#8212; I&#8217;m not going to bother posting a link to download iPuz files anymore, as you can download an iPuz from the online solver interface, if that&#8217;s your jam. Also, I&#8217;ve changed the license under which I release these puzzles to <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a>, not that anyone really cares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/bearing_fruit.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Solve this puzzle online &lt;&lt;&lt; Happy 2026 everyone! If you&#8217;re looking for a New Year&#8217;s Resolution, may I suggest dropping Across Lite for good? XWord is an excellent option, and of course there&#8217;s always the Crossword Nexus Solver, which you can install to your Desktop if you&#8217;d like. The fewer people solving on Across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/puzzle-145-bearing-fruit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #145: Bearing Fruit&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}