𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #189: Wordy Web 2

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!

PUZZLE #189

WORDY WEB 2

To conclude Double Sevens Month, I've decided to create a puzzle that I haven't made in a long while (Specifically, October 2015)! I don't have much to add to that, so I'll just jump straight to the directions:

This Web's set up with Circles and Strands, but there are no letters with which the words are woven. To complete this puzzle, enter the answers to the Circles' clues (numbered 1 to 6) clockwise around the concentric rings of the Web, though it's up to you to determine the starting point for each Circle. All of the Circles' clues are presented in order. To help figure out the Circles' staring points, fill in the Strands' answers (marked with A to L) starting at each respective letter and traverse the Web from left to right. Some of the strands have only one answer, while others have two.

Once you've completely filled in the Web, the letters in the red spaces, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: an appropriate two-word phrase

CIRCLES
1) Movie that makes the audience break out the tissues
    Longest river entirely in Switzerland: Var.
    Join the military
    Temporary, like a solution
2) Heavy metal band that dresses up in elaborate alien warrior costumes
    Word that rhymes with "joker" and "smoker" in a Steve Miller Band song
    Impreza car manufacturer
    Mark Antony's wife (or a gray, cello-playing pony)
3) "Sure thing, boss!": 2 wds.
    Govt. agency formed in 1970
    Giant green dinosaur idolized by the Rugrats
    Emma Stone's character in La La Land
4) Hypnotic Jungle Book snake
    The act of keeping someone up-to-date (anagram of PARIS PAL)
    Marshmello's music genre: Abbr.
5) Customizable avatar playable in Wii Sports
    Dire _____ ("Walk of Life" band)
6) Foam packing pellet

STRANDS
A) Golden Girls actress McClanahan
B) Galahad's garb
C) Q-Tip, for one
D) Empty TV schedule slot: Abbr.
    Guybrush from the Monkey Island games, for example
E) "Oh, _____ sock in it!": 2 wds.
    Like a peacenik: Hyph.
F) Archibald from Veggietales, e.g.
    The Smashing Pumpkins' first music video (HINT: It's one letter off from a destructive Hindu god)
G) The _____ Showman (musical biopic about P.T. Barnum)
    Sasha's older sister
H) Makes drip coffee
    Column that may be Ionic or Doric
I) Acclaimed video game where you play as the goddess Amaterasu
    Word that follows "cutting", "leading", or "straight"
J) Perspective used in The Legend of Zelda for NES: Hyph.
K) Emulate a thief
L) The first T in TNT

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!

ANSWERS: Line 'Em Up 6

It's been almost two weeks since I've posted "Line 'Em Up 6", and nine people since then have gotten the correct answer, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Michael Avanessian ****
• Debbie Benford ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #188: Squeezed in the Middle 12

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!

PUZZLE #188

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 12

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: a brand name

CENTERS
1) Giant bird that carried off Sinbad the Sailor
2) Sarah McLachlan song that hit #3 in 1998
3) Korean drum (Okay, I doubt you'll know this; just take a male deer and subtract the third letter)
4) Sean who played Samwise
5) "Cheap Thrills" singer
6) The Grouchy Ladybug author/illustrator Eric
7) Natural balm found in some Kleenex tissues

WHOLES
* Female ninja-in-training from the Street Fighter games
* Former Detroit Piston Thomas
* Heavenly headwear
* Pokémon trainer whose eyes are always shut
* Sampling some ice cream, say
* The _____ Pumpernickel (Looney Tunes short)
* Unit for measuring angles

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!

ANSWERS: Pieces of Nine 4

Boy, that "Pieces of Nine 4" puzzle from two weeks ago proved to be another popular one, as eleven people have managed to correctly solve it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Brittany Trofimovich ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Tawan Sunathvanichkul ****
• Dan Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers and a solver's comment!

𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #187: Line 'Em Up 6

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!

PUZZLE #187

LINE 'EM UP 6

Place the answers to each numbered clue in the squares to the right of each corresponding number. (a number in brackets following each clue will tell you how many letters are in each answer). Once you have the answers, align them properly in the grid so that going down, a two-word phrase will be spelled out by the two red columns in the grid's center.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is an author

1) Boat built by Russell Crowe in Noah (2014) [3]
2) Threw in the towel [4]
3) Marvel antihero nicknamed the "Merc with a Mouth" [8]
4) Last name of Popeye's girlfriend [3]
5) Tinker Bell, for one [5]
6) Crop covered with husks [4]
7) Mirror's _____ (first-person parkour video game) [4]

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!

ANSWERS: Anagram Chambers 6

It's been thirteen days since I've posted "Anagram Chambers 6", and nine people since then have got the correct answer, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes  ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Dan Simonds **
• Mom ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Alex Milton ***
• Michael Avanessian ***

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #186: Pieces of Nine 4

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!

PUZZLE #186

PIECES OF NINE 4

Arrange the trigrams (blocks with three squares/letters in them) to make seven 9-letter words. After that, sort the new words so that the first one alphabetically is in row 1, the second one alphabetically is in row 2, and so on.

Once you're done, read down two of the columns for the FINAL ANSWER: a fictional character

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!

ANSWERS: Picross Words 3

It's been thirteen days since I've posted my birthday puzzle ("Picross Words 3"), and eight people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom & Alex Milton ****
• Lynn Sweeney **
• Dan Simonds **

Now head below the break for the answers, as well as some videos and solvers' comments!

𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #185: Anagram Chambers 6

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!
PUZZLE #185

ANAGRAM CHAMBERS 6

It's been a while since I had a THEME MONTH, so what better time for another one of those? Since it's the seventh month of the year, all of the FINAL ANSWERS this month will consist of two seven-letter words! Okay, it's a weak theme, I'll admit, and I only came up with it after noticing that I had three to four puzzles in a row planned out that just happened to result in answers of that pattern, as well as the coincidence of July being the seventh month, so why not take advantage of that? Anyway, here's the first puzzle I made for this month before I even knew it was going to be a theme month!

For this puzzle, there are several dark-green "chambers" with yellow rectangles and light-green squares in them. For each chamber, you take a word in the first yellow rectangle as hinted at by the clue, add a letter from the light-green square, and scramble them to get a word in the second yellow rectangle, then you repeat the process to get the word in the third yellow rectangle. Once you've filled in everything, the light-green squares will spell out something... or they would if the chambers weren't all scrambled up as well!

Once all of the chambers are in the proper order, the light-green squares will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of an actress

a. [With "The", Rush song about maples and oaks arguing] + _ = [Madonna hit with the lyrics "Something's coming over me"] + _ = [Aretha Franklin classic originally performed by Otis Redding]
b. [Eats like a bird] + _ = [In the Bedroom actress Sissy] + _ = [Winners of the first ever Super Bowl]
c. [Speed _____ (60s anime)] + _ = [Last name of Peggy from Captain America: The First Avenger] + _ = [Veranda]
d. [Mother of Perseus] + _ = [The Silver State] + _ = [Game Boy _____ SP (handheld game console)]
e. [Took a snooze] + _ = [Pale color] + _ = [No Man's Sky has 18 quintillion of these celestial bodies]
f. [Wood pattern] + _ = [Being broadcast on TV] + _ = [Abuja's country]
g. [Weary] + _ = [Film cutter] + _ = [Drug banned by the Olympics]

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!

ANSWERS: Link-Letters 5

It's been thirteen days since I've posted "Link-Letters 5", and eight people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers!