Monday, April 18, 2016

PUZZLE #72: Moving Staircases 4

PUZZLE #72
MOVING STAIRCASES 4


The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.

Once you've completely filled out the grid, hidden inside it will be this week's FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word that isn't hidden horizontally OR vertically!


SHORTS
* 2010 film featuring the Archangel Michael
* A literal white elephant, e.g.
* It's wielded by Mario Tennis characters
* Pixar short film about a magician's rabbit
* Political prejudices
* Risk it all
* Spike from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, for one

LONGS
* Childish _____ (Rapper name of Community's Donald Glover)
* Last name of Bill from the Bill & Ted movies
* Stage names and such
Super Smash Bros. Brawl item that comes in three pieces
* Unlike chicken scratch
* [ or ]

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!

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