{"id":258,"date":"2022-01-21T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2022-01-16T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:41:07","slug":"puzzle-26-follow-the-yellow-brick-road-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/puzzle-26-follow-the-yellow-brick-road-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #26: Follow The Yellow Brick Road (Spiral)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FollowTheYellowBrickRoad.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FollowTheYellowBrickRoad.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNKmKOjGUbw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOur first spiral! We&#8217;re still trying to figure out what&#8217;s the best for these. Do you lean toward more overlap between words, or does that not matter as much?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how this one is received.<\/p>\n<p>Also! Quick note &#8212; one of these clues pretty obviously dupes its own answer.\u00a0 I like the clue too much to care.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have never solved a spiral before, here are the instructions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When completed, this grid will contain two series of words\u2014one reading inward from 1 to 97, the other outward from 97 back to 1. Every space will be used exactly twice. Work from both sets of clues to complete the puzzle. Note: clue hints like (2 words) are omitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FollowTheYellowBrickRoad.jpz\">Enjoy the solve<\/a>, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrosswordNexus\">let us know about it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Our first spiral! We&#8217;re still trying to figure out what&#8217;s the best for these. Do you lean toward more overlap between words, or does that not matter as much?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how this one is received. Also! Quick note &#8212; one of these clues pretty obviously dupes its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/puzzle-26-follow-the-yellow-brick-road-spiral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #26: Follow The Yellow Brick Road (Spiral)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-spiral","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}