Monday, January 25, 2016

DUMP MONTH! PUZZLE #60: Anacrostic

dump month
PUZZLE #60
ANACROSTIC

It's the final puzzle of Dump Month, and in keeping with the theme of posting puzzle types that GAMES won't accept from newcomers, I present to you an Anacrostic (though they call it a "Double Cross")! I wasn't sure how to make one of these at first, so I finally cracked open my copy of Puzzlecraft for something other than scanning in a grid, and I gotta say that it helped a lot! Read on for the fruits of my labor!

Answer the clues on the numbered dashes below, one number per dash. Then transfer the letters on the dashes to the correspondingly numbered squares in the puzzle to reveal a quote reading from left to right. The black spaces separate words, and some words may go from one row to the next. Solve this puzzle by going back and forth between the answers and the grid, but be careful though, since this particular quote contains two contractions that aren't marked in the grid with apostrophes.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the quote's source: a commercially successful movie that premiered in January (one of the traditional "dump months"). In case you don't want to look it up, you can also get the FINAL ANSWER by reading the first letter of each answer in order.

Click on the picture for a much larger grid

A) Sixties model whose real name is Lesley Lawson
   __ __ __ __ ___ __                                               
   19 71 32 85 104 51
B) Swamp or savanna
   ___ __ ___ __ __ __ __
   119 49 107 61 97 40 14
C) The FINAL ANSWER has a "Surprise" one of these, according to IMDB
   __ __ __ __ __ __
   53 90 33 18 11 72
D) Explosive Super Mario Bros. enemy: Hyph.
   __ __ __ __ __ ___
   83 37 74 66 25 110
E) Tool's debut album
   __ _ __ __ __ ___ __ __
   57 4 12 82 47 113 73 36
F) Banjo-_____ (Nintendo 64 sequel)
   ___ __ __ _ __
   106 92 70 1 48
G) 2014 Melissa McCarthy movie
   __ __ __ __ _
   35 63 20 44 5
H) What this clue is written in, for example
   ___ __ __ __ ___ __ __
   112 41 91 28 101 13 81
I) Creator of many stop-motion holiday specials: Hyph.
   ___ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ __
   121 94 64 39 16 87 56 29 100 24
J) From Helsinki
   _ __ __ __ __ ___ __
   9 59 30 23 99 115 15
K) Shower sponge
   __ ___ __ __ __ __
   46 114 79 60 54 98
L) Baseball team that adopted their current uniform in 1915
   __ _ __ __ ___ ___ __
   26 3 88 77 118 108 17
M) Rolled-up Mexican dish
   __ _ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __
   21 7 62 69 103 96 75 52 45
N) Tamagotchi or Tickle Me Elmo, e.g.
   _ ___ __
   2 116 50
O) Emulated Nero, supposedly
   __ __ __ __ ___ __ __
   93 10 31 55 111 68 42
P) Its capital is Tallinn
   ___ __ __ _ __ __ ___
   120 65 78 6 34 89 109
Q) J. Fred Muggs, for one
   __ ___ __ __ __
   76 105 86 67 27
R) Sci-fi trope that may cause paradoxes (and is the subject of the FINAL ANSWER): 2 wds.
   __ __ ___ _ __ __ __ ___ __ __
   80 43 102 8 58 38 22 117 84 95

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 that one 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!


No comments:

Post a Comment