PUZZLE #226
SUPER SIXES 3
Enter the answers to the Across clues in the appropriate rows reading from left to right. The answer to each "Sixes" clue starts in the numbered square and goes either clockwise or counterclockwise around its 3x2 rectangle (the direction is left for you to determine by using the Across answers).
Once you've completely filled in the grid, the letters in the gray squares, read from top to bottom, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: an actress who had her own TV show in the 1960s!
ACROSS
i) Like the ruins of Chichen Itza
ii) Chews like a squirrel
iii) Pinocchio's "father"
iv) "Explosive" song by The Runaways featured in the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack: 2 wds.
v) Open-toed shoe worn by Leni from The Loud House
Shrieking spirit of Irish folklore
vi) The most abundant element in the air
_____ Day's Night (Beatles song/album/movie): 2 wds.
vii) Made wrinkle-free
Pals acting together in a play
viii) Eroica, e.g.
Birth country of Christoph Waltz and Arnold Schwarzenegger
ix) Type of rock that includes limestone and sandstone
Separate the wheat from the chaff, say
x) Run around with no clothes on
Doctor Sax author Jack
xi) Dr. _____, Medicine Woman (90s TV show)
Quirky video game series where you roll everything up into a giant ball
xii) Host of NBC's The Voice: 2 wds.
xiii) Well-spoken
xiv) Bollywood dresses
xv) Musical symbol that looks like a
SIXES
1) Surname of comedic brothers Shawn, Marlon, and Keenen Ivory
2) Nickname of Dr. Ivo Robotnik from the Sonic games
3) Covered with small stones
4) Fast food franchises, for example
5) A Midsummer Night's Dream character whose head turns into a donkey's
6) mother! director Aronofsky
7) Medical magician
8) Wilber who founded a fast-food chain that merged with Carl's Jr. in 1997
9) Chicken _____ bleu
10) Scully and Mulder, for two
11) Army affirmative: 2 wds.
12) Talented rookie
13) Word followed by "australis" or "borealis"
14) Axis & _____ (WWII-themed board game)
15) Fighting video game series with characters named Xiaoyu and Heihachi
16) Little girl's polite bow
17) Grapefruit-flavored soda
18) _____ Marcus (luxury department store)
19) The Whole Nine Yards actress Peet
20) 2007-2012 Nickelodeon sitcom that starred Miranda Cosgrove
21) King who sang "I Feel the Earth Move"
22) Target numbers to hit
23) Phone company using robots in their current ad campaign
24) Persistently pester
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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a .PDF!
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