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Title: LA Times
Post by: srenauer on November 25, 2015, 09:53:10 AM

Does anyone know if the LA Times across lite link and archive is gone for good, or it is going to be back once the site is finished rebuilding? It'd be nice to know what's going on!

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: drdinsmore on November 25, 2015, 10:01:38 AM

Given that both the download link is not functioning and the LAT archive is gone, I suspect that LAT has cancelled its agreement with Cruciverb.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: Joyceegg on November 25, 2015, 10:10:35 AM

Then why would they have the link listed on the right side menu? Does anyone know? Is there any other site where you can interactively solve besides the Mensa, LAgametimes, and several others which all use the same format which is not user friendly.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: chuckpuckett on November 25, 2015, 10:54:56 AM

Is there a way to learn definitively whether LAT puzzle is returning to Cruciverb? I emphatically agree that the online puzzle (non-AcrossLite) currently offered on the LAT site is lousy-to-the-point-of-unusable.
If Cruciverb is dropping it, I wish they'd lose the link.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: drdinsmore on November 25, 2015, 04:44:34 PM

Given that both the download link is not functioning and the LAT archive is gone, I suspect that LAT has cancelled its agreement with Cruciverb.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: japaget on November 26, 2015, 07:52:55 AM

 Since the "LA Times" link under "Today's Puzzles" now will download a .puz file if you are logged into the site, I suspect the archive of the last four weeks of the LA Times will be returning in a few days.  It is possible that the archive may not include puzzles before today's and will take four weeks to fill out, however.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: barbara6020 on November 26, 2015, 09:23:29 AM

Can you tell me where the new link is?  I still only see blanks on the home page.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: aquinn on November 26, 2015, 10:24:20 AM

My guess is the LA Times puzzles in Across Lite form will be back.  In the meantime, try: http://games.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword/

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: srenauer on November 29, 2015, 08:44:31 PM

I was just now able to download across lite version of today's LAT.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: fluff on November 30, 2015, 08:04:39 AM

Worked yesterday, but not today.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: Joyceegg on November 30, 2015, 08:57:50 AM

agree with fluff......worked yesterday but not today. i wish the site manager would respond. :(   or better yet fix ALL the problems.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: jalperin on November 30, 2015, 10:00:11 AM

Also the LA Times archive web site is gone from the listing so cannot go back and get the older puzzles when they get online

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: micke on November 30, 2015, 11:05:33 AM

I was able to download the Sunday, Nov. 29th LA Times .puz file from the cruciverb link. This was the first time in a couple weeks. But today, Monday, it wasn't available again. Hope we get it back soon!

micke

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: aquinn on November 30, 2015, 11:12:05 PM

Read the home page:

SITE IS BEING REBUILT. SOME THINGS ARE NOT
 
WORKING. BEAR WITH US.

and

Please note that the 3-month LAT puzzle archive is temporarily unavailable. It should be back very soon.




You can still get the puzzles at  http://games.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword/, just not in Across Lite format

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: phil262 on December 01, 2015, 08:28:43 AM

These are the links to last week's LAT puzzles in Across Lite format

http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151123.puz
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151124.puz
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151125.puz
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151126.puz
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151127.puz
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151128.puz

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: fluff on December 01, 2015, 08:42:00 AM

Phil,
 Where/how did you find these links? Thank you!

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: phil262 on December 01, 2015, 09:57:11 AM

Quote from: fluff on December 01, 2015, 08:42:00 AM

Phil,
 Where/how did you find these links? Thank you!

The file name for the LAT puzzle has used that same format (lat+year+month+day.puz) for as long as I can remember so I just put in last week's dates.

Apparently the files are here on the server but the links to them haven't been posted yet because the homepage is still under construction.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: aquinn on December 01, 2015, 10:53:42 AM

Thanks Phil.  When I tried with other dates, I always got:

Internal server error. Please contact system administrator.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: aquinn on December 01, 2015, 11:05:01 AM

Actually clicking on your links works.  Entering identical ones myself does not.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: phil262 on December 01, 2015, 01:10:10 PM

Quote from: aquinn on December 01, 2015, 11:05:01 AM

Actually clicking on your links works.  Entering identical ones myself does not.

To prevent nonmembers from downloading the puzzles they have it set up so the request must originate from the cruciverb.com domain. Using the links posted in this forum satisfies that requirement. Typing the URL directly into you browser's address bar does not.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: fluff on December 01, 2015, 02:39:12 PM

That's so helpful to know! Thank you!

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: paa on December 01, 2015, 05:28:33 PM

Thanks for the links!  I also need the following 2 puzzles so I'll add the links and hope for the best.

http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151130.puz (http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151130.puz)
http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151121.puz (http://www.cruciverb.com/download.php?f=lat151121.puz)

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: Fed on December 01, 2015, 07:42:07 PM

Thanks Phil and others for posting those links

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: japaget on December 01, 2015, 11:34:55 PM

The LA Times Puzzle Archives are back!  Please remember that if you are using a mobile device such as a smartphone, you must request the desktop version of the site, since there is no link to the archive on the mobile version of the site.  Alternately, you can go directly to http://www.cruciverb.com/puzzles.php?op=showarch&pub=lat (http://www.cruciverb.com/puzzles.php?op=showarch&pub=lat) on your mobile (or desktop or laptop) device.  If you had this page bookmarked before the site change, your bookmark will work once again.

The link for the December 3 puzzle does not work.  Hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow.

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: micke on December 01, 2015, 11:38:56 PM

It's back tonight! Hope it lasts.

micke

Title: Re: LA Times
Post by: aquinn on December 02, 2015, 08:31:35 AM

The archives are back and daily puzzles are coming.  Thank you very much, Kevin.