PUZZLE #286
MINI-MARCHING BANDS 4

The answers in this grid march both across the Rows and around the Bands. Each row contains two answers, clued in order. Their dividing point is for you to determine, except in Row 5, where the two answers are separated by a black square. The answers in each Band will be entered clockwise, starting at a lettered square (A-D) and ending in the space below that square. The dividing points in each band's string of words are also for you to determine. Each square will be used twice; once in a Row's word, and once in a Band's word.

Once you've filled everything in, read the letters on the diagonal dashed line for the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a music video and movie director

ROWS
1) South Korean singer who did "Gentleman" and "Gangnam Style"
    Angelic child depicted in many Precious Moments products
2) Language where we got the words "bangle" and "bungalow"
    Desert in southern Mongolia
3) Voice higher than baritone
    Hello Neighbor: Hide and _____ (indie horror video game)
4) "Pretty Boy" Floyd, for one
    Coach Riley who owns the trademark for "three-peat"
5) S-shaped molding often seen in architecture and crosswords
    Baptism or bat mitzvah, e.g.
6) Cinnamon-brown pear
    Gets warmer, as in a game of "Hot and Cold"
7) Farming prefix (HINT: Switch the middle two letters to get the name of a Best Picture Oscar winner)
    Pine tree's seed producers
8) Pluribus, as in "e pluribus unum"
    _____ Jam: A New Legacy (upcoming film starring LeBron James and Bugs Bunny)
9) Cartoon character with a blue beehive
    Like tales of Paul Bunyan (or Paul Bunyan himself)

BANDS
A) Lover of Eros/Cupid
    Inventor of a cube with six colors
    Cover a surface by repeatedly using a single tile shape
    Cricket's father's mother in Big City Greens
    Payphone location
B) _____ Girls (folk rock duo who appears in the crossword documentary Wordplay)
    Frequently flog, like a dead horse
    Summary of previous episodes
    Jewish version of a church
C) Like myths involving Loki (not the Marvel one)
    Keyed instrument played by Alicia Keys
    Painfully tight undergarment that Pirates of the Caribbean's Elizabeth hates wearing
D) _____ of Arabia (film that won seven Academy Awards)

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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