{"id":158,"date":"2012-05-18T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2012-05-18T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T03:08:04","slug":"by-way-of-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"By way of comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(DA 2012\/05\/18)<\/p>\n<p>There should be 17 of these according to the rubric. <del datetime=\"2012-05-18T03:07:54+00:00\">Please feel free to add the 17th in comments.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 5D spotted by DATrippers.com commenter JJ.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: 5D was spotted by Tim Aubrey first.<\/p>\n<p>Across<br \/>\n12 Mad as a cut snake<br \/>\n15 High as a kite<br \/>\n16 Slippery as an eel<br \/>\n17 Red as a beet<br \/>\n18 Pissed as a newt<br \/>\n24 Calm as a millpond<br \/>\n27 Lean as a bean (this is the one that is reversed)<\/p>\n<p>Down<br \/>\n 1 Slow as a wet week<br \/>\n 2 Dry as a Pommy&#8217;s towel [Grr!]<br \/>\n 4 Blind as a bat<br \/>\n 5 Old as Methuselah<br \/>\n 7 Cold as ice<br \/>\n 8 Quiet as the grave<br \/>\n13 Black as the Ace of Spades<br \/>\n14 Pure as the driven snow<br \/>\n22 Neat as a pin<br \/>\n28\/23 Snug as a bug in a rug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(DA 2012\/05\/18) There should be 17 of these according to the rubric. Please feel free to add the 17th in comments. UPDATE: 5D spotted by DATrippers.com commenter JJ. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: 5D was spotted by Tim Aubrey first. Across 12 Mad as a cut snake 15 High as a kite 16 Slippery as an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/?p=158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By way of comparison<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[11,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crossword.morrish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}