Monday, December 21, 2015

PUZZLE #55: Zigzagnut 2

PUZZLE #55
ZIGZAGNUT 2

The numbered clues are for the zigzags, which work their way down through the diagram in the outlined areas. The "Rows" clues are for the answers, two per row, to be entered straight across each row in the diagram, but to make things harder, you don't know which specific rows the answers will go into! (Though the answers in the rows themselves are in the correct order)

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer entered in the unclued entry in the middle of the diagram (marked with a question mark): the name of an '80s arcade game



ROWS (in random order; each contains two answers)
* Celebration that ends before Ash Wednesday: 2 wds. / Like MacDonald or Mother Hubbard
* Quiet _____ ("Metal Health" band) / Bit of bad luck
* Rendezvous (Unhelpful HINT: it's part of The 7th Guest's infamous soup can puzzle) / Bamboozled
* Food critic Ego from Ratatouille / Runescape creator Andrew
* Word that precedes "Legend" or "Sprawl" / Classic TV spy Maxwell
* Redheaded heroine of Tokyo Mew Mew / David Fincher film based on unsolved murders
* The first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize / Spoofs and skits, e.g.
* Bump a car's back bumper, maybe: Hyph. / Pointy body part of Link or Zelda
* Foe of Marvel's Thor inspired by the Greek god of war / Elephant-headed Hindu god: Var.
* Lyric that's sung directly before the words "Gangnam Style" / Didn't delete: 2 wds.
Iron Chef America chef Cat / Piece of a Mexican Train?

ZIGZAGS
1) Guinness Book entry
2) Calls before a court
3) Samantha's mother in Bewitched
4) She voiced Esmeralda in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5) Football-headed Nicktoon character
6) Talk show host Povich and others
7) Separated laundry
8) Island that's located between Michigan's two peninsulas
9) Playstation's versions of Xbox achievements
10) Oculus' virtual reality product
11) When doubled, the capital of American Samoa
12) Kid _____: Uprising (3DS game)
13) Dinner plates
14) 1988's Wipeout or 2008's Wipeout, for example: 2 wds.
15) "Foxy" Maid from Disney's Robin Hood
16) "Mama, I'm _____ Home" (Ozzy Osbourne song)
17) Garment worn by Tommy Pickles
18) Inflatable copilot from Airplane!

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) 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 figured it out. 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!

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