{"id":660,"date":"2023-03-24T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2023-03-20T05:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:08:31","slug":"puzzle-86-kirby-and-charity-puzzle-pack-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/puzzle-86-kirby-and-charity-puzzle-pack-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #86: Kirby (and charity puzzle pack announcement!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RisNultpv0M\" 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\/Kirby.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kirby.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-661 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mondrian.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mondrian.png 343w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mondrian-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/>Last year we raised some money for Children&#8217;s Hospital L.A. by offering a suite of crossword and variety puzzles to anyone who donated, and we&#8217;re happy to say we&#8217;re doing it again this year! Donate any amount at <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.chla.org\/goto\/AlexBoisvert\">my personal fundraising page<\/a> and we&#8217;ll send you a suite of puzzles! This year we have an acrostic, a spiral, a flower power, a patchwork quilt (see Piet Mondrian-inspired grid art to the left!), and a kaidoku. Plus! As a special bonus, you&#8217;ll get a never-before-seen banger themeless puzzle from the one and only Kate Chin Park! <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.chla.org\/goto\/AlexBoisvert\">Act now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s puzzle is from last year&#8217;s puzzle pack: it&#8217;s Kirby! The other puzzles will remain exclusives for people who donated last year, but I wanted to share this one as an incentive for donating this year. Plus, it&#8217;s so cute! How can you not share it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kirby.jpz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/ep2J3KXcmM\">Join our Discord!<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/crosswordnexus\">Join our Patreon!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Last year we raised some money for Children&#8217;s Hospital L.A. by offering a suite of crossword and variety puzzles to anyone who donated, and we&#8217;re happy to say we&#8217;re doing it again this year! Donate any amount at my personal fundraising page and we&#8217;ll send you a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/puzzle-86-kirby-and-charity-puzzle-pack-announcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #86: Kirby (and charity puzzle pack announcement!)&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":[9,13,6],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-grid-art","category-puzzles","tag-kelseys-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}