Monday, December 7, 2020

PUZZLE #312: Snake Charmer 5

PUZZLE #312
SNAKE CHARMER 5

Enter the answers to each clue in the grid, starting in the correspondingly-numbered space and ending in the space before the next consecutive number. The chain of answer words will overlap itself, winding their way twice around the snake-shaped grid.

Once you've filled in the grid, unscramble the green squares to get the FINAL ANSWER: An eight-letter word


1) Tea variety whose name translates to "black dragon"
2) "The Way It Is" singer Bruce
3) Witness's statements that can be cross-examined in the Ace Attorney games
4) Breakfast of Champions author Kurt
5) Afternoon nap in Acapulco
6) Victorious
7) Eritrea's capital
8) Female role found in both Othello and The Taming of the Shrew
9) Ice down again
10) Wrinkly organ seen in the box art for Cranium
11) Incarcerated Let It Be producer Phil
12) The Price is Right game that involves swapping numbered blocks to complete five prices
13) Baseball team from the University of Texas at Austin
14) 8-bit units
15) _____ & Pumbaa ('90s Disney cartoon)
16) Actress Strahovski of NBC's Chuck
17) The most daring
18) Skylit lobby
19) Cult classic horror film with an eerie undertaker known only as "The Tall Man"
20) Horse breed that originated in the Middle East
21) Without a worry in the world
22) On Beyond _____! (Dr. Seuss book about adding more letters to the alphabet)
23) Gadget and Clouseau, for two
24) With "The", video game trilogy (later a Netflix series) starring a monster slayer named Geralt

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

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