Monday, December 30, 2019

PUZZLE #263: Chain Reaction: Branching Out 3

PUZZLE #263
CHAIN REACTION: BRANCHING OUT 3

First, find the answer to each corresponding clue, all of which are in no particular order. Then place the answers into the white boxes in the diagram below (leave the pink box alone for now) so that reading right, each pair of boxes that are connected with a line create a two-word phrase.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the five-letter movie title that goes in the pink box to create three more two-word phrases.


* Asian country where gunpowder and fireworks originated from [5]
* Award-winning comic series featuring characters named Phoney, Fone, and Smiley [4]
* Coffee filter filler [7]
* Così _____ tutte (Mozart opera) [3]
* Decade fractions [5]
* Eric who sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” in Monty Python's Life of Brian [4]
* "Good Will" from an Oscar-winning 1997 film [7]
* It might say "Admit One" [6]
* Knight's armor made up of interlinked rings [4]
* Large feature of both The Crimson Chin and his voice actor, Jay Leno [3]
* _____ like flies (dying off in large numbers) [8]
* Manga/anime character who wields the Death Note in Death Note (or the opposite of "dark") [5]
* Marvel's half-vampire who was portrayed by Wesley Snipes three times [5]
* Maximum limit [7]
* Medical drama starring Hugh Laurie [5]
* "Meet Virginia" band [5]
* Plug outlet [6]
* Popeye's arm tattoo [6]
* Spring, summer, fall, or winter [6]
* The first letter in DOA [4]
* Weightlifter's training partner [7]

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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