Monday, October 28, 2019

PUZZLE #254: Wordy Web 3

PUZZLE #254
WORDY WEB 3

It might not quite be Halloween yet, but I've prepared a puzzle type for that holiday regardless! I don't have much else to say regarding that, so here are the directions:

This Web's set up with Circles and Strands, but there are no letters with which the words are woven. To complete this puzzle, enter the answers to the Circles' clues (numbered 1 to 6) clockwise around the concentric rings of the Web, though it's up to you to determine the starting point for each Circle. All of the Circles' clues are presented in order. To help figure out the Circles' staring points, fill in the Strands' answers (marked with A to L) starting at each respective letter and traverse the Web from left to right. Some of the strands have only one answer, while others have two.

Once you've completely filled in the Web, the letters in the red spaces, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: a video game that'd be perfect for Halloween


CIRCLES
1) Carl Sagan-hosted PBS show subtitled "A Personal Voyage"
    Dial-up devices from the late '90s
    Shape of a Game Boy Advance's screen
    Affirmatives
2) It's wasted on the young, according to grumpy old folk
    Fairy assistant from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (or Avatar's alien species)
    Experimental trial: 2 wds.
    Old Chrysler car driven by Sam & Max
3) Win by _____ (barely succeed): 2 wds.
    Rock with shiny crystals inside
    Stalactite site
    Luke Skywalker's sister
4) Arrange in straight rows
    Community and Mad Men actress Brie
    Fail a polygraph test
5) Forms foam from shampoo
    Big _____ (member of Outkast)
6) Aphrodite's lover who was killed by a boar

STRANDS
A) Org. with Canadiens and Maple Leafs
B) Perform penance
C) Ruby who the Rolling Stones sang about
D) "_____, ergo sum" (Latin quote that translates to "I think, therefore I am")
    WALL-E's love interest
E) Cilium
    Spinoff of JAG, which itself has spinoffs set in Los Angeles and New Orleans
F) Character from Super Mario Galaxy who wears a turquoise dress
    Tickle pink
G) Pelting with pebbles
    "She _____ Like Crazy" (Weird Al song parodying the Fine Young Cannibals)
H) Meerkat, for one
    Button on a keyboard's top-left corner
I) NYPD Blue actor Morales
    Husky involved in 1925's serum run to Nome
J) Wheelers' partners
K) Extreme loathing (or what Garfield feels about a certain drooling dog?)
L) Letters next to "6" on a telephone pad

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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