PUZZLE #243
QUADRUPLE CROSS
To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!
Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a one-hit wonder.
CLUES
1) "The Destroyer", in Hinduism
Doorbell sound
2) Back-and-forth tennis exchange
Bravery in battle
3) Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-_____ (1996 computer game): Hyph.
No longer sleeping
4) Month with the spring equinox
Last name of the robot Tom from Mystery Science Theater 3000
5) Part of "ESP"
Rock genre for Prong and Pantera
6) Carter who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s
Where to hit a bucket of golf balls
7) First-person GameCube game where you're a spirit that can possess humans and inanimate objects
Urban of country fame
8) Circus clown's walking stick
"Presto!"
9) Hawaiian word for "hello" or "goodbye"
"The One _____" (R.E.M. song): 2 wds.
10) Foe of Spider-Man covered in black alien goo
Thanks, in Düsseldorf
11) Letter after psi
Silent film actress Bara (Anagram of DEATH)
12) Pre-chrysalis stage
Avant-_____
13) Explorer Polo immortalized in a swimming pool game
Anime genre often involving multiple women lusting after one guy
14) Cyberpunk 2077 star Reeves
1990s sports sitcom starring Craig T. Nelson
15) Jurassic World actor Pratt
Took a risk
16) Specks of land in the ocean
He's paid to park cars
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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!
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