{"id":55,"date":"2021-06-13T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:28:58","slug":"puzzle-2-crossword-fiend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/13\/puzzle-2-crossword-fiend\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #2: Crossword Fiend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/CrosswordFiend.jpz\">JPZ<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index2.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/CrosswordFiend.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huge shout-out and very happy anniversary wishes to <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordfiend.com\/\">Amy Reynaldo and her whole crew<\/a> with the original and still best crossword blog in all the land.\u00a0 I can honestly say that had Amy not given <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/content?id=OZxHjBH-q78C&amp;pg=PA14&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;bul=1&amp;sig=ACfU3U2hILUlSUjZNWJhy-uEXR4saa0TyA&amp;w=685\">my first published puzzle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordfiend.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/memorial-day.html\">such a nice write-up<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think I would have pursued crosswords as much as I did in the intervening 15 years.\u00a0 Thanks for everything and here&#8217;s to 16 more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ | Online Solver Huge shout-out and very happy anniversary wishes to Amy Reynaldo and her whole crew with the original and still best crossword blog in all the land.\u00a0 I can honestly say that had Amy not given my first published puzzle such a nice write-up, I don&#8217;t think I would have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/13\/puzzle-2-crossword-fiend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #2: Crossword Fiend&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}