Monday, March 26, 2018

PUZZLE #171: 5-Star Stumper 3

PUZZLE #171
5-STAR STUMPER 3

The answer to each numbered pair of clues go in the 10 spaces surrounding each correspondingly numbered star in the grid. The first answer of each set starts in the appropriately numbered space (with the arrow in the same space telling you which direction to go), and the second answer follows immediately after. Meanwhile, the answers that go in the red stripe surrounding the grid are clued in order, and even though it's up to you to determine where the chain of answers begins, we can tell you that the red stripe's answers go clockwise.

Once the entire grid has been filled in, reading the white spaces from left to right and top to bottom will reveal this week's FINAL ANSWER: A recent video game


STARS
1) Charles from Death Wish (1974)
    Biblical boat measured in cubits
2) Sleek and shiny, like a photo
    Country once ruled by Ayatollah Khomeini
3) 2004 Ashlee Simpson song covered in Elite Beat Agents: 2 wds.
    "...early _____, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise": 2 wds.
4) Turkish cash
    Long nerve fibers
5) Game played in The Color of Money
    Like a no-good slimeball

RED STRIPE
* "Hang On _____" (Ohio's state rock song)
* Its slogan is simply "The Diamond Store"
* Fe, on the periodic table
* Navigational aid used by bats
* The middle two initials in WASP: Hyph.

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!

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