{"id":599,"date":"2023-02-03T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2023-02-04T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:26:23","slug":"puzzle-78-horse-feathers-feat-ben-zimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/03\/puzzle-78-horse-feathers-feat-ben-zimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #78: Horse Feathers (feat. Ben Zimmer!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0Gwe5gKgjo\" 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\/horsefeathers.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/horsefeathers.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marx Brothers puzzle #3 features <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgzimmer\">language guy Ben Zimmer<\/a>, and without giving too much away, this theme is right up his alley. We had a lot of fun working on this and we think you&#8217;ll like it too! Oh, and if you don&#8217;t understand the theme, maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/reporting-editing\/2012\/joe-bidens-use-of-malarky-renews-attention-to-the-words-origin\/\">give this article (in which Ben is cited, of course) a read<\/a> (slight spoilers at link)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go out to Jeremy Horwitz for testing this for us! Jeremy has made a lot of great puzzles, including\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/avxwords.com\/puzzles\/73\/\">this old AVCX of his<\/a> that I really enjoyed. Check it out when you&#8217;re done with this one?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/horsefeathers.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #3 features language guy Ben Zimmer, and without giving too much away, this theme is right up his alley. We had a lot of fun working on this and we think you&#8217;ll like it too! Oh, and if you don&#8217;t understand the theme, maybe give&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/03\/puzzle-78-horse-feathers-feat-ben-zimmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #78: Horse Feathers (feat. Ben Zimmer!)&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":[19,9,47,6],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collabs","category-crosswords","category-marx-brothers","category-puzzles","tag-ben-zimmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}