{"id":5435,"date":"2025-05-14T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:25:33","slug":"the-setting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/the-setting-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Setting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having covered a variety of topics on an ad hoc basis in <em>Setters&#8217; Corner<\/em>, I thought that it would make sense to create a more structured knowledge (and opinion!) base covering the principles of crossword setting. This can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/the-setting-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Setting Room<\/a> page; there is a separate page, <a href=\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/the-setting-room-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Setting Room Reception<\/a>, where comments and questions can be posted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The individual items are grouped together in topics, which are ordered alphabetically. Clicking on a topic will take you to the relevant part of the page, where the items are presented &#8216;accordion-style&#8217;; clicking on the summary will reveal the complete item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would very much like to know what you think about the facility, and would welcome corrections, additions, suggestions, questions etc. General comments (eg &#8220;It&#8217;s rubbish&#8221;) should be left on this page, while anything else (&#8220;Is this clue valid?&#8221;, &#8220;How does a Playfair puzzle work?&#8221;) should ideally be added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/the-setting-room-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Setting Room Reception<\/a> page. If you would prefer that your comment or question is not publicly visible, please <a href=\"mailto:doctorclue@clueclinic.com\">email me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new area of the site has been launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"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\/5435","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=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}