{"id":783,"date":"2023-07-25T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/acrostic-12-miner-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:00:11","slug":"acrostic-12-miner-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/acrostic-12-miner-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrostic #12: Miner Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One issue with 15&#215;15 crosswords is that lively phrases of length 12, 13, and 14 don&#8217;t show up that often because they force some awkward black square patterns. Acrostics, of course, have no such restrictions. As a result, I&#8217;m proud to share some fun entries of those lengths in today&#8217;s puzzle. I hope you like it!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had an acrostic run in Outside The Box puzzles! If you have just joined after solving my puzzle there, welcome! If you are not an Outside The Box subscriber but you enjoy variety puzzles, what are you waiting for? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joonpahk.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.joonpahk.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Puzzle available at <a href=\"https:\/\/acrostics.crosswordnexus.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/acrostics.crosswordnexus.com<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/acrostics.crosswordnexus.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/<\/a> as always. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"patreon-valid-patron-message\">This content is available exclusively to members of <b><a href=\"?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fcrosswordnexus.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Facrostic-12-miner-concerns%2F&utm_medium=patreon_wordpress_plugin&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=creator_profile_link_in_valid_patron_footer\" target=\"_blank\">this creator's Patreon<\/a> at $1 <\/b> or more.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One issue with 15&#215;15 crosswords is that lively phrases of length 12, 13, and 14 don&#8217;t show up that often because they force some awkward black square patterns. Acrostics, of course, have no such restrictions. As a result, I&#8217;m proud to share some fun entries of those lengths in today&#8217;s puzzle. I hope you like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/acrostic-12-miner-concerns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Acrostic #12: Miner Concerns&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patreon-acrostics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}