Monday, August 15, 2016

PUZZLE #88: Slot Machine

PUZZLE #88
SLOT MACHINE

Sorry I'm late! I forgot to schedule this one! Now let's get started!


In this Slot Machine, the Row answers are entered normally, from left to right in the order of the clues given. The Tumbler answers going down are entered in the same way, but all of the Tumblers have been "spun", meaning that the Tumblers' answers can start in any row and continue downwards. When a set of Tumbler answers hit the bottom of the grid, it continues at the start of the same column that it started in. There's also a "Jackpot Answer" that is comprised of the first letters of the first answer of each Tumbler. In the example above, the Rows spell out INN, TIE, and WOW, while the Tumblers spell out WIT, ION, and NEW, and the first letter of each Tumbler spell out WIN.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer to the Jackpot.


JACKPOT
* Something that made its debut in the year this puzzle's author was born: ? wds.

ROWS
1) Suicide Squad member named after the Japanese sword she wields
    Cable network that airs reruns of American Ninja Warrior
2) Sandy golf hazard
    With "The", MTV reality show about the Prince of Darkness and his family
3) Like all prime numbers (except 2)
    15th-century prince nicknamed "The Impaler"
    Blues musician Muddy _____
4) Egg-shaped
    Swirly sweet on a stick
5) Micro machines?
    It frequently has a backup strategy: 1 wd. and a ltr.
6) Island country that's southeast of India: 2 wds.
    Actor Elba who voiced Chief Bogo in Zootopia
7) Barely make, with "out"
    It changed its name to Tokyo in 1868
    Emulated Rosie from WWII
8) 2002 Kid Rock song featuring Sheryl Crow
    Canadian one dollar coin
9) Suffix for "serpent"
    Female tailor (Insert reference to Rarity from My Little Pony here)
10) Yankovic and Gore
     Singing syllables: Hyph.
     Genetic chain (HINT: It doesn't start with a "D")
11) Egyptian queen with a famous bust (Get your mind out of the gutter!)
     Reward, archaically (Yeah, no one's gonna know this; just write down DEEM backwards)
12) "Shake _____" (The Cars song): 2 wds.
     Main character of Assassin's Creed: Unity (Anagram of the first answer in Tumbler #6)
     San Diego baseball player
13) They're inserted into Intellivisions
     U2 album featuring "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

TUMBLERS
1) Rugrats or Rocko's Modern Life, for example
    Color of an old-timey photo
2) Narrow passage of water
    Species of Arthur or D.W.
3) Sisters' daughters
    "I'm Like a Bird" singer Nelly
4) Spigot for suds
    The Incredibles character who can turn invisible
    Escalator part
5) Mess up
    Tom or Schwarzenegger from True Lies
    Erykah who sang "On & On"
6) Late You've Got Mail director Ephron
    Blood-collecting heart parts
    Infamous '70s horror/art film based on a book by [last answer in Tumbler #13]
7) Sister of Yakko and Wakko from Animaniacs
    Moscow citadel
    Cotillion ball honoree, for short
8) Birds whose heads can rotate 270 degrees
    _____ Craig (Scottish island) (Anagram of ALIAS)
    Clothes, slangily (HINT: It rhymes with a '90s bottle cap fad)
9) Rotation point in a lever
    "Fat _____" (Sum 41 song)
    =
10) Suffix for "bowl" or "pan"
     Big _____, California
     That squiggly line seen in words like "PiƱata"
11) Grape juice for adults?
     Joined forces with someone
12) The Spirit cartoonist Will who has a comic book award named after him
     Last word of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
     Rice-A-_____ (The San Francisco Treat!)
13) In medias _____
     Spots for saunas
     Masochistic Marquis who wrote The 120 Days of Sodom: 2 wds.

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). 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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