Monday, January 21, 2019

PUZZLE #214: Moving Staircases 8

PUZZLE #214
MOVING STAIRCASES 8


The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.

Once you've completely filled out the grid, hidden inside it will be this week's FINAL ANSWER: a type of person whose name is not hidden horizontally OR vertically.


SHORTS
* Animated spy spoof on FXX with over 100 episodes
* "Awww, how adorable!": 2 wds.
* _____ Bell (series of direct-to-DVD Disney movies about fairies)
* Glue brand with a bull's head on it
* Headrest filled with feathers or foam
* Insultingly small
* Scrooge's interjection

LONGS
* "Ain't I a _____?" (Bugs Bunny quote)
* Gwyneth who played Pepper Potts in the Iron Man films
* Olympic sport with plenty of bows
* Speak well in public (anagram of TOE CLUE)
* Stupidly large SUVs discontinued in 2010
* Tuck or Roll from a certain Pixar movie about insects, for example

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!

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