{"id":739,"date":"2017-04-01T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:18:05","slug":"barred-puzzle-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/barred-puzzle-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Barred Puzzle 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will be publishing occasional plain (not themed) puzzles on the site. This is barred puzzle number 1 &#8211; as we discuss in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/index.php\/clue-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clue Movies<\/a><\/span> series, barred puzzles are at the higher end of the difficulty spectrum and normally include a fair scattering of obscure words, so Chambers Dictionary is recommended (see the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/index.php\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library<\/a><\/span> page for advice on editions). The only plain barred puzzles currently published regularly in the UK are Mephisto (in <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>) and Azed (in <em>The Observer<\/em>) &#8211; anyone familiar with those puzzles should find this one well within their scope. A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BarredPuzzle1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">printable version <\/a><\/span>of the puzzle is also available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We hope that you enjoy it. If you have any comments on either the presentation or on the puzzle itself, please use the comment form or send me a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:doctorclue@clueclinic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mail<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ccpuz_container\" style=\"width:100%\"><div id=\"CrosswordCompilerPuz\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a printable PDF version of the puzzle, click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clueclinic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BarredPuzzle1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This puzzle is\u00a0\u00a9 The Clue Clinic 2017 and must not be reproduced in entirety or in part without permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first in an occasional series of original, plain puzzles for your entertainment. We hope that you enjoy this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-puzzles"],"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\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}