JA-NEW-ARY!
PUZZLE #267
SUDOKUROSTIC
It's the final puzzle for this theme month, and this one was based off of an idea that one of my solvers provided! Longtime solvers may recall that Lynn Sweeney, one of my regular solvers and someone who I often see in person, originally provided the idea that became "Sudokurossword". This new idea that she came up with a while ago is similar, but it involved transferring letters into a sudoku grid rather than numbers. Inspiration was quick to strike me once she told me about her idea, and this new hybrid of a sudoku and an anacrostic puzzle was what I ultimately came up with! I hope you'll enjoy it!
Below is supposed to be a sudoku/wordoku puzzle, but unfortunately, the whole grid is completely blank. To fill it in, solve the clues so that the answers fill out the dashes (one letter per dash), then transfer each letter to the grid according to the coordinates below each dash, like an anacrostic puzzle. For example, if the coordinates were "e5", then its corresponding letter should go in the square in row "e" and column "5". Not all of the grid's squares will ultimately be filled in, so it's up to you to complete the rest of the wordoku puzzle, making sure that each row, column, and 3x3 box contains the same nine unique letters without any repeats.
Once the grid has been completely filled, look through it like a word search to find the FINAL ANSWER: an adjective that's at least six letters long
• 2000s TV drama about the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815
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d4 i7 b5 h5
• Deuce Bigalow: Male _____ (Rob Schneider film)
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d3 g6 c2 b1 e7 a5
• Female sheep from U.S. Acres (HINT: she's named after a wax secreted from sheep, which might explain why she's constantly grumpy.....)
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i3 a6 c4 h4 g8 f9 e3
• Like clocks that aren't analog
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g5 a2 b6 i8 d9 h2 c5
• They're streamed by Spotify
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f1 c9 f6 i4 a7
• Using one of the five senses that's located in one's mouth
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b8 f7 h9 a3 d1 i5 g1
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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