PUZZLE #297: Slot Machine 4

PUZZLE #297

SLOT MACHINE 4

Before I get to the directions, I just wanted to warn you all ahead of time that this specific puzzle took me way too long to construct (it lasted an entire day and most of its preceding evening, in fact). As a result, there are some harder-than-usual clues and entries here, so as a reminder, don't be afraid to look some of them up. After all, you won't get penalized if you do so. Now then, here's how to solve this puzzle:

 

In this Slot Machine, the Row answers are entered normally, from left to right in the order of the clues given. The Tumbler answers going down are entered in the same way, but all of the Tumblers have been "spun", meaning that the Tumblers' answers can start in any row and continue downwards. When a set of Tumbler answers hit the bottom of the grid, it continues at the start of the same column that it started in. There's also a "Jackpot Answer" that is comprised of the first letters of the first answer of each Tumbler. In the example above, the Rows spell out INN, TIE, and WOW, while the Tumblers spell out WIT, ION, and NEW, and the first letter of each Tumbler spell out WIN.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer to the Jackpot.

JACKPOT
• A teen drama whose original theme song went gold: ? wds.

ROWS

1) Bright Vegas lights

    "Do you have Prince Albert _____?": 3 wds.

2) Like many movie villains

    With very little movement

3) Spider's egg pouch

    The largest island in the Irish Sea

4) Completely cockamamie

    Pacific weather phenomenon in 1998 headlines: 2 wds.

5) Incubus lead singer Brandon

    Payment to use a company's copyrighted material

6) Moth genus (alright, just change a vowel in ISOTONES)

    Zodiac sign with the shortest name

7) Hockey feint

    They're some of the longest snakes in the world

8) "The _____ of Omaha" (Warren Buffett's nickname)

    Humped mammal ridden by Porky Pig in Ali-Baba Bound

9) TV spinoff whose theme song was The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again": 2 wds.

    How the West Was Won actor Wallach

10) Ruler of a religion-controlled government, for one

      Interjection from SNL's Wayne and Garth

11) Like photographs shot from drones

      Her first single "Goodies" went to #1 (wait, didn't I already use her two puzzles ago?)

TUMBLERS

1) Gasoline ratings

    Abbr. in footnotes meaning "In the same place"

2) Brown-_____ (suck-up)

    Four-armed Mortal Kombat 3 character (HINT: Her name sounds like a four-armed Hindu deity)

3) Beethoven symphony initially dedicated to Napoleon

    Monster from Japanese folklore, such as a kappa or a tengu

4) Publisher/developer of the original Ninja Gaiden video game

    _____ Empire (even weirder than usual David Lynch film)

5) It's not the real thing, but an incredible imitation

    Trigonometry wave

6) One billion years

    With "The", Pulitzer Prize-winning novel where a farmboy adopts a pet deer

7) And so on and so forth: Abbr.

    Jeff who created the newspaper comic Shoe

8) Country that shares the same island as the Dominican Republic

    Indoor football venues

9) Bad sign: 2 wds.

    New Testament book that precedes Romans

10) Of the pre-Easter period

      Female faun from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage

11) Lengthy list, as of complaints

      Spinning toys that go around the world?

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v4xIo265or5VxmA755T-68vSh0G1RgOA/view?usp=sharing