Monday, February 20, 2017

OSCAR MONTH! PUZZLE #114: Zigzagnut 3

OSCAR MONTH!
PUZZLE #114
ZIGZAGNUT 3

The numbered clues are for the zigzags, which work their way down through the diagram in the outlined areas. The "Rows" clues are for the answers, two per row, to be entered straight across each row in the diagram, but to make things harder, you don't know which specific rows the answers will go into! (Though the answers in the rows themselves are in the correct order)

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer entered in the unclued entry in the middle of the diagram (marked with a question mark): the name of an Oscar-winning actress


ROWS (in random order; each contains two answers)
* Chamillionaire hit that was parodied by Weird Al as "White & Nerdy" / Bring a toon to life
* Ward (off) / 1979 sci-fi film that won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects
* Fixes typos / Moose or elk
* Pie à _____: 2 wds. / The WB sitcom starring (and named after) a country star
* The majority of the world's population / Green-tongued Cartoon Network character (or a crosswordese whirlpool)
* _____ culpa / Kenya's capital
* Like Allen Funt's Camera / Privy to: 2 wds.
* Tuesday in France / Sound of a kiss or a slap
* MTV Classic offering / The C in CIA
* Knight wear / The Life _____ with Steve Zissou
* Jackie who voiced Monkey in Kung Fu Panda / Namco once had one regarding minigames on loading screens

ZIGZAGS
1) Actress and inventor Hedy
2) Blue jay from Regular Show
3) Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, religion-wise
4) Like King Kong in 1976 and 2005
5) Supporter of a Kickstarter project, say
6) Stand-up guy?
7) Like candlelit dinners
8) Attack like a vampire
9) Virginia's 4th-most populated city
10) Nick @ _____ (programming block)
11) Place to play Dance Dance Revolution
12) God of thunder and lightning from Mortal Kombat
13) Discordant
14) Picturesque panoramas
15) Arctic and Atlantic, for two
16) Like the latest hot fashions
17) Shoe company whose name is derived from the Latin word for "bird"
18) Made one's nose grow, metaphorically

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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