{"id":668,"date":"2025-07-11T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:53:27","slug":"get-cracking-w-geoffrey-schorkopf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Get Cracking! (w\/ Geoffrey Schorkopf)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grid Size: 21&#215;21<br>Difficulty: Not over(ly) easy, but not over(ly) hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a hot minute since I posted a full-size puzzle on the blog. Apologies! To atone for it, I&#8217;m offering the first ever Sunday-size grid on this humble site. It&#8217;s a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordfiend.com\/tag\/geoffrey-schorkopf\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/crosswordfiend.com\/tag\/geoffrey-schorkopf\/\">Geoffrey Schorkopf<\/a> called &#8220;Get Cracking!&#8221; Geoffrey and I met about a year and a half ago through the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/avxwords.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/avxwords.com\/\">Lil AVCX<\/a> program and have since collaborated on  puzzles that have appeared at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/puzzles\/universal-crossword\/2024\/07\/05\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/puzzles\/universal-crossword\/2024\/07\/05\">Universal Crossword<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/daily\/2024\/12\/10\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/daily\/2024\/12\/10\">New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/the-crossword-may-26-ball-dont-lie-themeless\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/the-crossword-may-26-ball-dont-lie-themeless\">Defector<\/a>, and, as of July 2nd, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireballcrosswords.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fireballcrosswords.com\/\">Fireball<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geoffrey says, &#8220;I always rush to solve when Brian posts a new Olio Grid. It&#8217;s an honor and a privilege to debut here. Happy solving!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I say, &#8220;Aw, thanks Geoff!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope you enjoy! Oh, and be sure to check out the PDF, because it was fun to put my amateur design skills to the test.\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Get-Cracking-PDF.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Get-Cracking-PDF.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe style=\"height: 110vh; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/crosshare.org\/embed\/tzJX2O0VzvaPIFLgiuKa\/BgYXbsVPKNR5fHcHCdE8pmR1lhx1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"clipboard-write *\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grid Size: 21&#215;21Difficulty: Not over(ly) easy, but not over(ly) hard It&#8217;s been a hot minute since I posted a full-size puzzle on the blog. Apologies! To atone for it, I&#8217;m offering the first ever Sunday-size grid on this humble site. It&#8217;s a collaboration with Geoffrey Schorkopf called &#8220;Get Cracking!&#8221; Geoffrey and I met about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fullsize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}