PUZZLE #35: Color Wheels

PUZZLE #35

COLOR WHEELS

This next puzzle is based off a grid I found in one of my old issues of GAMES magazine (yes, I saved them; after all, why would you want to throw away something with beautiful Paint By Numbers and/or Link-A-Pix puzzles that you worked so hard on?). Speaking of which, I should probably renew my subscription now that I'm going to get published! Read on for the directions while I do that...

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued red entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an actor.

ACROSS (marked with red arrows)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* P-body's companion in Portal 2's co-op mode
* Two-part season 4 premiere of The Office (the second half of this answer is the same as the second half of one of the uphill answers. Whoops!): 2 wds.
* On Deadly _____ (stinky Steven Seagal movie)
* Betted on two horses, say
* Actor Gary who played Commissioner Gordon
* Subtitle of the first Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS: 2 wds.
* Aired an old TV show again
* Cardcaptor _____ ("magical girl" anime)

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)
* Name that precedes "The Giant" or "3000"
* Cartoon Network character with a secret laboratory
* Hey Arnold! character with a tall afro
* Greek letter used in the Half-Life logo
* _____ Work ("Overkill" band): 2 wds.
* Classic Sega arcade game where you drive a red Ferrari with a blonde girl: 2 wds.
* Moscow money
* Still in the original packaging
* First single off of Foreigner's 4
* Final word of Nirvana's final album

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)
* Fluttershy's pet bunny (who, more often than not, doesn't live up to his name)
* Archie or Edith
* Political refugee
* Grip firmly
* _____ specus (logical fallacy with a name coined by Sir Francis Bacon)
* Pounds potatoes to a pulp
* Crimson covering of a fox: 2 wds.
* Oklahoma's second-largest city
* Tank's top
* Weezer tune also known as "The Sweater Song"

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 roughly 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. 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!