Monday, April 19, 2021

PUZZLE #331: Nonplussed 3

PUZZLE #331
NONPLUSSED 3

The answers in this puzzle are entered in two ways: the fifteen numbered rows have one or two answers that read left to right (even the two rows that only have one letter in it), and the plusses have five-letter answers that read left to right beginning in the top row (exactly like how they're entered in Pent Words). The clues for the plusses are split up into two groups: white plusses and gray plusses. Answers to those clues should be placed in their respectively-colored plus, though you have to use the Rows' answers to find out where each plus answer is located.

There are two unclued rows in this puzzle; combine them to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a two-word occupation


ROWS
1) English letter with more than one syllable
2) Immunity token on Survivor
3) Spadroon, scimitar, and sabre, say
4) THE FIRST HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
5) Devoured dates, say
    Exceedingly negative reaction to an announcement
6) Orange alternative to ice cream
    Defeat the incumbent
7) Aardvark noses
    Use DuckDuckGo, e.g.
8) Metal stick that holds stair runners in place (Anagram of CROP TRADE): 2 wds.
    "Gimme _____ More" (Busta Rhymes song)
9) Tiny dose of Visine
    Quite impossible to miss
10) Fictional Rhode Island city where Family Guy is set
      Established by edict
11) White Fang novelist Jack
      Full of foliage
12) THE SECOND HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
13) Silver-haired half-elf heroine from Re:Zero
14) Carve with acid
15) Generation _____ (alternate name for millennials)

WHITE PLUSSES
• White as a sheet
• Pointy bit on a soccer shoe
• Like five dimes, when compared to two quarters
• Toffee-flavored candy in some Klondike bars
• In desperate need of calamine lotion
• Shish _____
• Closes in on
• Davis who played "Da Mayor" in Do The Right Thing
• Former Red Sox pitcher Martínez
• Long and slender
• Reek like Limburger
• Straight razor's sharpener
Black _____ (upcoming film starring Scarlett Johansson)

GRAY PLUSSES
• Whale constellation
• Celestial streaker with a coma
• White Cliffs locale
• Strawberry-flavored drink from the Coca-Cola Company
• Material that Snow White's coffin was made of
Street Fighter II character who shares his name with a Japanese automaker
• Her debut single "Royals" went Diamond, according to the RIAA
• Poet Nash who claimed that "Parsley is gharsley"
_____ 66 ('60s TV show about two men in a Chevy Corvette)
• Only black member of the Spice Girls
• Word following "book" or "street"
• Put on a happy face

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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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