CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH! PUZZLE #157: Lucky Sevens 5 - L7

CHRISTMAS GIFTS MONTH!

PUZZLE #157

LUCKY SEVENS 5: L7

This week's offering is a request from Chris Hendricks, which if you recall, wanted either a "Stretch Letters" or a "Lucky Sevens". I ultimately picked the latter, but he also wanted "some kind of twist to it" such as turning the Sevens to L's by flipping them upside-down. Not only that, I even included a word that he felt "would be a plus", so I hope he enjoys what I've made for him!

How unlucky! The Sevens have been flipped upside down! Stacked together below are seven L's made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each L start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going down and then right. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the L's that they appear in, starting with the L marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word

ROWS
i) 75% on a school paper, say
ii) Video game company that got in deep doo-doo last November with Star Wars Battlefront II's loot boxes
iii) Revival technique practiced on a dummy: Abbr.
iv) "You're So _____" (#1 Carly Simon hit)
v) Cozy country lodging
vi) Word on a doormat
vii) State capital that's home to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: 2 wds.
viii) Evil robot played by James Spader in the second Avengers film
ix) Not urban
x) Best Picture Oscar winner with Leslie Caron in the title role
xi) A very, very, very long time

L'S
1) "Like a _____" (Weird Al's parody of a Madonna song)
2) Purple-wearing rival of Super Mario's brother
3) Manitoba's time zone
4) '80s cartoon adapted from the anime Beast King GoLion
5) Coffeehouse where you can play with and adopt felines: 2 wds.
6) Finest example
7) Massively bloody destruction

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 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!