PUZZLE #28: 4X Game

PUZZLE #28

4X GAME

This one's kinda tough to explain, but I'll try my best; below, there are 4 "X"'s, each containing four 5-letter answers. Each answer is entered at an angle, following one of the arrows as it does so, and the last three letters of one answer will be the first three letters of another, albeit in reverse order. In the example above (I know all the answers are three letters instead of five, but I hope you'll still get the gist of it), the words in the first "X" are MAP, PAT, TAR, and RAM, and the words in the second "X" are ROT, TOW, WON and NOR. However, to make things even harder, none of the clues are numbered or in order, so you'll have to figure out which word goes in which angle, but don't worry, as each "tip" of each "X" (the outermost letters) will contain the same letters as the "tips" of its neighboring "X". Going back to the example above, the rightmost "tips" in the first "X" contain the letters "R" and "T", so the leftmost "tips" in the second "X" has the same exact letters, in the same exact placement.

Once you're done, unscramble the letters in the "tips" that have no neighbors (the yellow squares) to get one of two four-letter words; that's this week's FINAL ANSWER!

X #1
* Old TV knobs you "don't touch"?
* Sedate and unadventurous
* Pesky little insects
* Symphony in _____ (Tex Avery short)

X #2
* Doctor Who baddie who wants to EXTERMINATE! all of humanity
* _____ Marner (old book subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe")
* R&B singer whose first album was 1999's Kaleidoscope
* Waldorf, but not Statler

X #3
* "Brain"y Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain
* Hits a fly or a fly ball
* Chews like Daggett or Norbert
* The Man in the Iron Mask, according to Marvel?

X #4
* Act on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, say: hyph.
* Former baseball commissioner Bud
* Liver fluids
* Griffon who was Rainbow Dash's friend from flight camp [I'd say more, but that would act as SPOILERS for a certain My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode from late last month...]

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net (the main email for my home computer) or itsredhead64@gmail.com (the main email for my tablet and whenever I'm not at home) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already solved it (but make sure you do so before this Sunday!). If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!