PUZZLE #15: Charadagrams

PUZZLE #15

CHARADAGRAMS

This next puzzle of mine is directly based off of one of Grant Fikes' puzzles, but I've tweaked it a little to make it easier to solve; in Grant's original puzzle, I pretty much had to solve every single one of the "WHOLES" clues before before I could figure out where the "PARTS" went. So with that out of the way (and to figure out what I'm talking about), read on for the directions!

When the answers to the clues in the REBUSES are anagrammed and then assembled, they form the answers to the WHOLES clues. For example, if one of the REBUSES consists of clues reading "[Forearm bone] + [Holy item associated with a saint] + [Telepathy and such]", and a WHOLES clue is “Event in which the Earth casts a shadow”, then the answers ULNA, RELIC, and ESP can be anagrammed and assembled into LUNA/R ECLI/PSE. Both the REBUSES and the WHOLES clues are in no particular order, and you must determine which answer goes in which row of blanks.

The letters in the shaded squares, reading down, will form two words that can be anagrammed and assembled into the FINAL ANSWER: a fictional character named after a historical figure.

REBUSES

* [Like Bill Gates or Carlos Slim] + [_____ All Odds (Jeff Bridges film)] + [Voice of Dr. Cockroach in Monsters vs. Aliens]

* [Engrave with acid] + [Allison Janney sitcom] + [Cowboy contests]

* [Shrek, for one] + [Weekly earnings] + [Defunct record label founded by Trent Reznor]

* [Colony member who you REALLY don't want to look up on Google Image Search] + [Ultrathin MacBook] + ["Ashes to Ashes" and "Tears Are Falling" music video director David]

* [Salesman who becomes a giant insect] + ["Parting is ____ sweet sorrow" -Plucky Duck] + [Quiz or exam]

* [Pro's foe] + [MAD Magazine artist Torres] + [Best Picture Oscar winner released in 2012] + [Poker token]

* [Cy Young, for one] + [You, in Germany] + [Waist size]

* [Rajah and Shere Khan] + [Recycled tire] + [Edutainment software company whose titles include Sammy's Science House]

* [Pickled hot dog condiment] + [Word preceding "Spaces" or "Nest"] + [Golfer Ernie]

* [Pucker one's lips] + [Achmed Khan's younger brother in Backyard Baseball] + [Knobby, like lymphatic tissue]

* [Wagon wheel's groove] + [Partner in crime] + [Chrysalis and Elsa] + [Monies in Fullmetal Alchemist]

* [Color of Minerva Mink's fur] + [Watermelon covering] + [Winding road shape]

WHOLES

* Oddly-named New Mexico city

* Symbol similar to part of Radioshack's final(?) logo

* Magazine with yellow borders

* Bob Barker game show

* The only female judge to appear in every season of The Voice

* John Adams was his Vice President

* Music genre of KMFDM and Ministry

* Princess Daisy's debut game

* Drinks named after a former child star

* Ylvis' failed follow-up to "(What Does) The Fox (Say?)"

* Hayao Miyazaki's final(?) film

* "Three Times a Lady" band

Once you think you know what this week's FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com within the next two weeks and I'll put your name on a list of solvers once the answers are posted. You can also use those e-mail addresses to give me feedback and comments on my puzzle or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's "Zigzagnut" puzzle (which you can solve here, with an easier version here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, head below the break for just that!