PUZZLE #244
5-STAR STUMPER 4
The answer to each numbered pair of clues go in the 10 spaces surrounding each correspondingly numbered star in the grid. The first answer of each set starts in the appropriately numbered space (with the arrow in the same space telling you which direction to go), and the second answer follows immediately after. Meanwhile, the answers that go in the red stripe surrounding the grid are clued in order, and even though it's up to you to determine where the chain of answers begins, we can tell you that the red stripe's answers go clockwise.
Once the entire grid has been filled in, reading the white spaces from left to right and top to bottom will reveal this week's FINAL ANSWER: A state bird
STARS
1) Lawnmower's storage site
Type of shower with gifts
2) Prefix meaning "trillion"
Anchors _____ (film where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry Mouse)
3) Literary doctor who made human-animal hybrids on his island
Ancient Irish language
4) Green-blue hue
Tiny Himalayan country whose capital is Thimphu
5) Spring holiday featured in Here Comes Peter Cottontail
_____Scape (long-running MMORPG)
RED STRIPE
* Cute robots from Portal that shoot on sight (or some gun towers)
* Chocolate bar filled with bubbles
* Fit together, like cogs
* More radiant
* Insurance company acquired by CVS Health in 2018
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 link to a .PDF!
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