{"id":1130,"date":"2026-01-23T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:37:18","slug":"puzzle-147-chain-chain-chain-crossword-with-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/puzzle-147-chain-chain-chain-crossword-with-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #147: Chain Chain Chain (crossword with meta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5C4FnlftQt4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>SOLVER LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/ChainChainChain.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quitevexing.substack.com\/\">Quiara<\/a> pitched me on a crossword idea and she immediately hooked me. She said she didn&#8217;t want co-author credit for this puzzle, but I for sure wanted to give her credit for the idea. Thanks, Q!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a crossword with a meta element! Here are your instructions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The meta answer is two grid entries that, when combined, would make the missing seven-letter theme entry. Send your solution to *****@crosswordnexus.com by Thursday, February 5th to be entered in a drawing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, the randomly selected winner will receive a puzzle pack or puzzle subscription of their choosing. Also as usual, using Google to solve the meta is totally fair game. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/ChainChainChain.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLVER LINK: Online Solver Quiara pitched me on a crossword idea and she immediately hooked me. She said she didn&#8217;t want co-author credit for this puzzle, but I for sure wanted to give her credit for the idea. Thanks, Q! Hey, it&#8217;s a crossword with a meta element! Here are your instructions: The meta answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/puzzle-147-chain-chain-chain-crossword-with-meta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #147: Chain Chain Chain (crossword with meta)&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":[9,52,6],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-meta","category-puzzles","tag-quiara-vasquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}