PUZZLE #268
QUADRUPLE CROSS 2
To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!
Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an actor
CLUES
1) Petunia Pig's boyfriend from Looney Tunes
Singer-songwriter Jones whose album Come Away With Me reached Diamond status
2) "Full speed _____!"
"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" singer
3) After Effects software developer
Mean creature under a bridge crossed by the Three Billy Goats Gruff
4) 1974 film about a scruffy mixed-breed dog
The most popular salad dressing flavor
5) Atmospheric layer whose depletion has slowed or even stopped completely
K-On! anime studio named after a Japanese city
6) Café con _____ (coffee with milk)
Original manufacturer of Sweethearts candies
7) Bike downhill without pedals
Peruvian mammal that Kuzco turns into in The Emperor's New Groove
8) Selected
Showing no visible emotion
9) It takes two to do this dance, so they say
Singers Basil and Braxton
10) As a result
Muppet with blue fur and a hooked nose
11) _____ the Greek (Oscar-winning film from 1964)
Wet spongy ground
12) Former Israeli P.M. Ehud (HINT: Remove a consonant from Mr. Obama's first name)
Opening tennis shot
13) 80s car salesman Joe who once claimed that "it has more seats than the Astrodome!"
Stir from slumber
14) City where Martin Luther King, Jr. began his march
Us Weekly cover subject, often
15) Much less assertive: Var.
Perhaps
16) Scooby-Doo character who often says "Jinkies!"
Underneath
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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