{"id":1154,"date":"2026-05-29T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:17:41","slug":"puzzle-150-flying-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/29\/puzzle-150-flying-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #150: Flying Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPn0KFlbqX8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>PUZZLE LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FlyingColors.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a new Chromebook and I wanted to see if it can run <a href=\"https:\/\/ingrid.cx\/\">Ingrid<\/a>. It can! I made this puzzle to test it out.<\/p>\n<p>This puzzle is along the lines of what Puzzmo calls an &#8220;apt pair&#8221; and what Adam Aaronson calls <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronson.org\/blog\/square-theory\">Square Theory<\/a> &#8212; just two theme entries that relate to each other. I wouldn&#8217;t call this an exact square but &#8230; well, you&#8217;ll see. I <strong>also<\/strong> realized somewhat recently that if you have two theme entries of different lengths you can put them in a puzzle using diagonal symmetry, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done here.  I like the look of it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FlyingColors.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver I got a new Chromebook and I wanted to see if it can run Ingrid. It can! I made this puzzle to test it out. This puzzle is along the lines of what Puzzmo calls an &#8220;apt pair&#8221; and what Adam Aaronson calls Square Theory &#8212; just two theme entries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/29\/puzzle-150-flying-colors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #150: Flying Colors&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-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}