{"id":538,"date":"2022-12-16T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-12-10T05:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T05:52:24","slug":"puzzle-71-just-another-vowel-progression-puzzle-with-howard-barkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/16\/puzzle-71-just-another-vowel-progression-puzzle-with-howard-barkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #71: Just Another Vowel Progression Puzzle (with Howard Barkin!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2DkJjBiCWY\" 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\/VowelProgression.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/VowelProgression.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New puzzle featuring the wonderful Howard Barkin! This collab started like so many of mine, with me pitching an extremely dumb idea to someone I thought might be receptive to it. To my delight, Howard accepted, and together we made this larger-than-usual puzzle. As you might have suspected, Howard is great to work with! Hopefully we get to do it again some time.<\/p>\n<p>Test-solver <a href=\"https:\/\/kateschmatecrosswords.weebly.com\/\">Kate<\/a>, whose feedback is always appreciated, said she had fun solving it! That&#8217;s good! But we also had this exchange<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/uhoh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/uhoh.png 843w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/uhoh-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/uhoh-768x483.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230; which is less good. This puzzle&#8217;s theme may not land for you and that&#8217;s fine! We hope you like it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is our last puzzle of the year! We&#8217;ll be taking a brief hiatus for the holidays. Don&#8217;t worry, though, we&#8217;ve got lots of fun things planned for 2023, so check back with us then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/VowelProgression.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver New puzzle featuring the wonderful Howard Barkin! This collab started like so many of mine, with me pitching an extremely dumb idea to someone I thought might be receptive to it. To my delight, Howard accepted, and together we made this larger-than-usual puzzle. As you might have suspected,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/16\/puzzle-71-just-another-vowel-progression-puzzle-with-howard-barkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #71: Just Another Vowel Progression Puzzle (with Howard Barkin!)&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":[19,9,6],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collabs","category-crosswords","category-puzzles","tag-howard-barkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}