{"id":1296,"date":"2020-04-22T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:36:57","slug":"azed-2500-halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/azed-2500-halfway-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Azed 2,500 &#8211; Halfway There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 1,250th Azed puzzle was published in April 1996. The clueing style in this puzzle is much closer, I think, to that seen in today&#8217;s Azed crosswords rather than those from the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a printable PDF version of the puzzle, click <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/clueclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azed 1250 Puzzle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a PDF of the solution, together with my explanations, click <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/clueclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azed 1250 Solution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. The Azed slip for the puzzle can be found <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andlit.org.uk\/azed\/slip.php?comp_no=1250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the <\/a><em><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andlit.org.uk\/azed\/slip.php?comp_no=1250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&amp;lit.<\/a><\/em><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andlit.org.uk\/azed\/slip.php?comp_no=1250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-crossword-crossword-block\"><div class=\"ccpuz_container\" style=\"width:100%\"><div id=\"CrosswordCompilerPuz\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azed&#8217;s 1,250th puzzle appeared in April 1996 and featured a theme appropriate to the landmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azed-2500"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}