PUZZLE #246
THE SPIRAL SQUARED 3
This puzzle turns in two directions. The Spiral's "Inward" clues yield a sequence of words to be entered clockwise in the spaces from 1 to 100. The "Outward" clues yield a different set of words to be entered counterclockwise from 100 to 1. Fill in the answers, one letter per space, according to the numbers beside each clue. Make sure to keep track of which way you're going!
Once you've filled out the grid, read out the highlighted squares diagonally to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a ten-letter word.
INWARD
1-8: The Captain & _____ (musical duo responsible for "Muskrat Love")
9-13: Green, in Spanish or Italian
14-16: Zebra on a basketball court, say
17-22: Petrified plesiosaur, perhaps
23-29: It's tapped during a frat's toga party: 2 wds.
30-33: Rally racing video game series named after soil
34-39: Female Friends character whose original hairstyle became popular in the '90s
40-42: Low-calorie drink brand that offers "Antiwater"
43-48: Feudal farmer
49-51: His evil plan in the first Despicable Me movie was to steal the moon
52-56: Chicago's busiest airport
57-63: Fancy name for a slash (/)
64-68: German artist who included a magic square in his engraving Melencolia I
69-78: Macaroni pie and lasagna, for two
79-86: _____ and the Bad Hat (children's book)
87-90: In abundance
91-96: Gorillaz's cartoon drummer
97-100: Chef Paula who appeared on Celebrity Family Feud in 2016
OUTWARD
100-94: Acupuncture pokers
93-86: Guaranteed to succeed
85-82: Africa's longest river
81-76: _____ in distress
75-72: Loads from lodes
71-67: "_____ bleu!"
66-63: Not at all polite
62-60: Drag along, as something stupidly heavy
59-54: Former talk show host Geraldo
53-45: Timepiece in the logo for Days of Our Lives
44-41: Converse competitor founded in 1979
40-37: "Yuck!"
36-28: What any Nintendo 64 game comes on
27-24: Antagonistic blue aliens from Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel
23-19: What ignorance is (at least, according to ignoramuses)
18-12: Made available
11-7: Eat, drink, and be merry
6-1: Small brown finch
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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