Monday, January 14, 2019

PUZZLE #213: Color Wheels 2

PUZZLE #213
COLOR WHEELS 2

D'oh! Sorry I'm late! Forgot to schedule this one! Anyway, here's a type of puzzle that I haven't done in a really long time!

The five- and six-letter answers in this puzzle go in three directions: straight across, uphill (up diagonally), and downhill (down diagonally), all from left to right, with one letter per triangle. Each entry is marked with a colored pointer: red for across, green for uphill, and blue for downhill. This is important, because all the answers are grouped according to the direction that they're entered into the grid. To make things a tad easier, six letters have already been entered into the grid.

Once you've completely filled in the grid, the two unclued blue entries will combine to make the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a British TV show


ACROSS (marked with red arrows)
* First island sung in The Beach Boys' "Kokomo"
* Idiotic green-haired fairy from The Fairly Oddparents
* Letter after gamma
* The Fog of War documentarian Morris
* _____ out (went overboard on describing nerdy stuff)
* Egged on
* Fire-type starter Pokémon that evolves into Incineroar (HINT: It rhymes with the name of a baby cat)
* Arcade game with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde: Hyph.
* Airport runway surface
* "I Want YOU for _____" (words on an iconic Uncle Sam poster): 2 wds.

UPHILL (marked with green arrows)
* Insurance company with a quacking mascot
* More appropriate
* "Do a _____ roll!" (Star Fox 64 quote)
* Presidential proclamation
* Bulletproof vest material
* Succeeded in hitting the big time: 2 wds.
* Last name of Stan from South Park
* Ornate 18th-century architectural style
* Use your tongue's buds
* Late Mother with a Nobel Peace Prize

DOWNHILL (marked with blue arrows)
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* _____ Point (Ohio amusement park)
* Lassie's species
* Detroit-based soda brand that Insane Clown Posse sprays their fans with
* Stories about ancient Egyptian gods, say
* E-commerce site owned by eBay until 2015
* Tennis tool with strings once made of catgut
* Family Video offering
* Pearl Jam singer Eddie

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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