{"id":957,"date":"2024-10-08T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2024-10-23T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:10:52","slug":"puzzle-125-arent-we-a-pair-contest-crossword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/puzzle-125-arent-we-a-pair-contest-crossword\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #125: Aren&#8217;t We a Pair? (contest crossword!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WpdCZC9q6w\" 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\/Arent_We_a_Pair.ipuz\">iPuz file<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/?puzzle=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Arent_We_a_Pair.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good news, everybody! Brooke Husic and Will Nediger, in collaboration with studio A24, have <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.a24films.com\/products\/99-tv-crosswords\">just released a book of 99 TV crosswords<\/a>. They were nice enough to ask me to write a few puzzles for it, including one with a celebrity collaborator.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the release, we&#8217;ve got a contest crossword for you (test-solved by Quiara &#8212; thanks, Q!). If you&#8217;ve never done one of these before, let me refer you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/crosswordcontestguide.pdf\">this how-to guide by Matt Gaffney<\/a>. I&#8217;ll just add that Google is totally fair game, and likely necessary for this one. With that out of the way, here are the instructions for this puzzle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The meta-answer to this puzzle is an HBO documentary on which my A24 collaborator served as executive producer. Send your solution to ****@crosswordnexus.com to be entered in a drawing for a puzzle subscription or puzzle pack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The contest deadline is Tuesday, October 22nd at 11:59 PM pacific time. Good luck!  And <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.a24films.com\/products\/99-tv-crosswords\">check out the book<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s got a lot of clever TV-themed puzzles from some great constructors. Oh! and if you need more acrostic puzzles in your life, <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/crosswordnexus\">you can get them for just $1.50 per month at our Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/?puzzle=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Arent_We_a_Pair.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz file | Online Solver Good news, everybody! Brooke Husic and Will Nediger, in collaboration with studio A24, have just released a book of 99 TV crosswords. They were nice enough to ask me to write a few puzzles for it, including one with a celebrity collaborator. In celebration of the release, we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/puzzle-125-arent-we-a-pair-contest-crossword\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #125: Aren&#8217;t We a Pair? (contest crossword!)&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":[9,52,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-meta","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}