Monday, April 9, 2018

PUZZLE #173: Squeezed in the Middle 11

PUZZLE #173
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 11


For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!

Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the title of a game show


CENTERS
1) Oscar-nominated superhero film with an old Wolverine
2) Campus military org. that was mandatory for male students until the '60s
3) Prefix meaning "egg"
4) National sport of Argentina with elements of polo and basketball
5) English philosopher (or Lost character) John
6) Author Ayn whose work influenced much of Rush's early music
7) In the style of certain chefs
8) "I wouldn't go so far _____ say that...": 2 wds.

WHOLES
* Company that created Angry Birds
* "I'm Lovin' It" and "Have It Your Way", for two
* Late '80s/early '90s legal drama that won 15 Emmys: 2 wds.
* Like Twitter users you don't want to argue with anymore
* Male body part often hit in America's Funniest Home Videos clips
* Marlon who played Superman's father
* Sheena who sang the theme song to For Your Eyes Only
* The 40-Year-Old Virgin director Judd

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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