{"id":71,"date":"2021-06-25T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2021-09-20T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:12:14","slug":"puzzle-4-fm-a-grid-charlemagne-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/25\/puzzle-4-fm-a-grid-charlemagne-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #4: FM (A Grid Charlemagne Puzzle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Puzzle Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FM.jpz\">JPZ<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index2.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/FM.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcb-K8k-OAE\" 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>I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to present this puzzle to you today, because it is a continuation of two crossword series I really enjoy.\u00a0 One is <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronson.org\/\">Adam Aaronson&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Grid Charlemagne&#8221; series, which up until now consisted of <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronson.org\/crosswords\/getouttahere\/\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronson.org\/crosswords\/dimedancin\/\">puzzles<\/a> by Adam and <a href=\"https:\/\/arctanxwords.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/puzzle-185-what-are-thoooooose-grid.html\">one by Christopher Adams<\/a> (maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/qvxwordz.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/27-6-13-themeless-12.html\">this one by Quiara Vasquez<\/a>?).\u00a0 Like those puzzles, the theme is Steely Dan-adjacent, but no specific knowledge is needed to solve or enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The other series this continues is <a href=\"http:\/\/brendanemmettquigley.com\/\">Brendan Quigley&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Yacht Rock&#8221; series of puzzles, making one puzzle for each of the twelve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLBEB75B6A1F9C1D01\">Yacht Rock episodes<\/a> (which, if you haven&#8217;t seen, you absolutely must).\u00a0 So far, there have been &#8230; well, zero, I guess.\u00a0 I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendanemmettquigley.com\/2021\/04\/crossword-1353-fool-me-once.html\">this one<\/a> was titled &#8220;What a Fool Believes&#8221; but I misremembered.\u00a0 Well, watch this space for more puzzles in that vein, then.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m doing shout-outs, a huge one to Peter Broda, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/peterbroda.me\/crosswords\/wordlist\/\">full-text wordlist<\/a> was invaluable in finding theme entries for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the puzzle and don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrosswordNexus\">tag us on Twitter<\/a> if you plan to solve it online!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puzzle Links: JPZ | Online Solver \ufeff I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to present this puzzle to you today, because it is a continuation of two crossword series I really enjoy.\u00a0 One is Adam Aaronson&#8217;s &#8220;Grid Charlemagne&#8221; series, which up until now consisted of two puzzles by Adam and one by Christopher Adams (maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/25\/puzzle-4-fm-a-grid-charlemagne-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #4: FM (A Grid Charlemagne Puzzle)&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":[9,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-puzzles","category-yacht-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}