PUZZLE #95: Eat Your Words

PUZZLE # 95

EAT YOUR WORDS

You may recall that last year around this time, I had a "Halloween Month" theme for my puzzles. Unfortunately, there's not going to be a similar theme this year, but I will at least have a horror-themed FINAL ANSWER for the puzzle set to be published on Halloween. That one also happens to be my 99th puzzle, meaning that my 100th puzzle is also coming up very soon! While we wait for that, let's have a look at the directions for this week's puzzle:

In this puzzle, the words hinted at by the numbered clues (The "Numbered Words") can "eat" a word hinted at by a different set of clues (The "Eaten Words") without rearranging any of the letters. For example, the word BIT can eat the word AND to form BANDIT. All of the new words are entered into the grid in the order of the Numbered Words, and the Eaten Words are in no particular order.

Once all of the new words have been placed, the letters in the highlighted third column will spell out two more words (okay, a word and a proper name). Have one of these words eat the other to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a video game.

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NUMBERED WORDS
1) The Who sang about a magic one
2) SpongeBob's pet snail
3) "_____ Words" (My first puzzle on this site)
4) Oboe mouthpiece
5) L.A. Law actress Susan
6) What Milk Chocolate M&M's were called prior to 2000
7) Woody or Buzz Lightyear, e.g.
8) Writing that can be "purple"

EATEN WORDS
* Barred baby bed
* Bile-producing organ
* Certain trigonometric functions
* Convert a video game to run on a different console
* Giant insect seen in Them!
* Like Shaq or Yao, height-wise
* Profit's opposite
* Rumble in the Bronx actor Jackie

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!