{"id":298,"date":"2022-03-04T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2022-03-01T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:47:46","slug":"298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/298\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #32: Charm The Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yuVcgQ4iyqk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/CharmTheSnake.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/CharmTheSnake.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a Yacht Rock puzzle today, but we named this one for a Christopher Cross song because we&#8217;ve got a Snake Charmer variety puzzle! Snake Charmer is a variety type invented by Patrick Berry and is traditionally presented in an &#8220;S&#8221; shape, but I prefer the more compact, winding format here.\u00a0 I also think it looks a bit like a coiled-up snake, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/5nake.com\/\">a game of Snake<\/a>, which is thematically appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Other venues have been running Snake Charmer puzzles recently, so if you enjoyed this one, consider subscribing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joonpahk.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/17\/year-7-subscriptions-are-open\/\">Outside The Box<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/nathancurtis\/\">Nathan Curtis&#8217;s Patreon<\/a>.\u00a0 Nathan actually has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/free-puzzle-60863460\">free Snake Charmer puzzle he published recently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, this puzzle was created entirely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreadthewordlist.com\/wordlist\">spread the word(list)!<\/a> We&#8217;re obviously partial to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Crossword-Nexus\/collaborative-word-list\/\">collaborative word list<\/a> but STWL allowed me to crank this one out quicker and cleaner so I&#8217;m glad to have given it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com\/\">Will<\/a> for the test-solve.\u00a0 Check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com\/2022\/02\/puzzle-57-going-postal.html\">recent crossword<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/CharmTheSnake.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 Not a Yacht Rock puzzle today, but we named this one for a Christopher Cross song because we&#8217;ve got a Snake Charmer variety puzzle! Snake Charmer is a variety type invented by Patrick Berry and is traditionally presented in an &#8220;S&#8221; shape, but I prefer the more compact,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/298\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #32: Charm The Snake&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":[6,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-snake-charmer","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}