Monday, February 6, 2017

OSCAR MONTH! PUZZLE #112: Diagramless Mini-Crossword

OSCAR MONTH!
PUZZLE #112
DIAGRAMLESS MINI-CROSSWORD

Well, it's February, and if you're in the U.S. like I am, that means we're smack dab in the middle of Oscar Season. So to commemorate the occasion, I'm going to do another theme month in the form of Oscar Month! All this month, the FINAL ANSWERS of each puzzle will have something to do with the Academy Awards! So with that little explanation out of the way, let's start with the directions of this month's first puzzle, shall we?

Diagramless crosswords are solved by using the clues and their numbers to fill in the answers as well as the black squares. When completely filled in, the black squares in the grid will have diagonal symmetry, meaning that they'll look the same when rotated upside-down. As a help, the first number has already been placed in the grid.

This week's TWO FINAL ANSWERS are both Oscar-nominated films


ACROSS
1) Resell on eBay for ridiculous prices
6) Fictional pet detective Ventura
9) Eldest son in Foxtrot
10) "Sugar, We're _____ Down" (Fall Out Boy song)
12) Heart song that hit #1 in 1987
13) 2012 Oscar-winning film about a fake film (not one of the FINAL ANSWERS, by the way)
14) One FINAL ANSWER
16) The pinnacle of TV manufacturers?
17) Main _____, U.S.A. (part of Disneyland)
21) The other FINAL ANSWER
25) Persuade
26) Diamond _____ (ex-bully from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
28) Ballooned
29) Music genre of B.B. King and Freddie King
30) Sets in medical dramas, for short
31) Canvas holder

DOWN
1) Hot springs site
2) Pictures from Pinocchio, perhaps
3) _____ the Fourth Wall (Internet review show about comic books)
4) He preceded (and succeeded) O'Brien on The Tonight Show
5) Auntie Anne's offering
6) "You can say that _____!"
7) Welsh dog
8) Number of worlds in the original Super Mario Bros.
11) Chris who played Mr. Big on Sex and the City
15) Beatles album containing "The Long and Winding Road"
17) Arrogant, like a stereotypical hipster
18) Former Yankees manager Joe
19) Green-skinned bully from Doug
20) Celebrity gossip and current events show on the same network as Fashion Police
22) Type of "monster" found in the southwestern US
23) Home, in Hamburg
24) Birch or beech
27) Handy way of communicating? (Abbr.)

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 (Don't forget that it's also a Contest Puzzle!). 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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