{"id":657,"date":"2023-03-17T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:17:14","slug":"puzzle-85-animal-crackers-with-norah-sharpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/puzzle-85-animal-crackers-with-norah-sharpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZnQYH127cw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AnimalCrackers.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AnimalCrackers.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norahsharpe.com\/\">Norah Sharpe<\/a>. The theme here is all Shannon&#8217;s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers to point out, but I really enjoyed 5D, 27D, and 39D. She has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Alex put out the call for Marx Brothers collabs way back in December, I immediately jumped on this one because it screamed theme potential to me. We talked over a few iterations and ultimately landed on one that put Alex&#8217;s coding skills to work. He made it super easy to cram in a ton of theme content as you&#8217;ll see. It&#8217;s always a blast making puzzles with Alex &#8211; please appreciate his clues at 42A, 31D, and 55D. Thanks for solving!<\/p>\n<p>I also have a cryptic (gasp) with Will Eisenberg in today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylormadecrosswords.com\/\">Lemonade Disco suite<\/a> &#8211; please go check that out too!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would also note that Norah and Will collaborated on a puzzle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abortionpuzzles.com\/\">These Puzzl3s Fund Abortion<\/a>, which is now available for presale. Preorder puzzles will be sent March 28. <a href=\"https:\/\/fund.nnaf.org\/campaign\/these-puzzl3s-fund-abortion\/c467239\">Get on board<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go out to Gritz to testing this one for us. Hey, have you heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycrosswordlinks.com\/\">Daily Crossword Links<\/a>? You should check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/AnimalCrackers.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Marx Brothers puzzle #6, once again featuring one of my absolute favorite collaborators, Shannon Rapp, who you may know as Norah Sharpe. The theme here is all Shannon&#8217;s, as is the theme density she was able to wrangle into this one. Too many good clues of hers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/puzzle-85-animal-crackers-with-norah-sharpe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #85: Animal Crackers (with Norah Sharpe!)&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":[34,35],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collabs","category-crosswords","category-marx-brothers","category-puzzles","tag-norah-sharpe","tag-shannon-rapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}