{"id":383,"date":"2022-05-17T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2022-05-16T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:51:44","slug":"onion-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/onion-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Onion Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had to clue a puzzle, and you get to a boring word like &#8220;felt&#8221; and wish you had some good way to clue it?\u00a0 Maybe options like these would work for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-384 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/felt-300x203.png\" alt=\"absolutely insane clue possibilities for the word &quot;felt&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/felt-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/felt.png 547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the options spit out by <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/apps\/onion-clues\/?entry=felt\">our new tool, the &#8220;Onion Clue&#8221; generator<\/a>.\u00a0 Just type in the word (or two-word phrase!) that you want clued and it will give you the options it&#8217;s got.\u00a0 Pretty simple!<\/p>\n<p>A few caveats: the data set is not complete.\u00a0 Personal favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/apps\/onion-clues\/?entry=felt\">&#8220;William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior&#8221;<\/a> tragically isn&#8217;t there, along with a bunch of others. If someone can point me to a better data set I&#8217;ll happily use it! Also, not all words are searchable in order to make the loading times not ridiculous.\u00a0 Otherwise, it&#8217;s a perfectly usable tool as is, and we hope it gets some use!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to add similar lookups for other parody sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/reductress.com\/\">Reductress<\/a>, so if you have an idea of a site we could add and a data set we could use, throw them our way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had to clue a puzzle, and you get to a boring word like &#8220;felt&#8221; and wish you had some good way to clue it?\u00a0 Maybe options like these would work for you. These are the options spit out by our new tool, the &#8220;Onion Clue&#8221; generator.\u00a0 Just type in the word (or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/onion-clues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Onion Clues&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}