Monday, August 9, 2021

PUZZLE #347: Mini-Marching Bands 5

PUZZLE #347
MINI-MARCHING BANDS 5

This puzzle contains a word or phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!

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 clothing company


ROWS
1) Like some tablet apps downloaded at no cost
    Certain binary digits
2) "He's So _____" (Pointer Sisters song)
    Ultimate end
3) Key to the left of F1
    Author of Little Women and Little Men
4) Cello relative with four strings
    Starr who was MVP for the first two Super Bowls
5) Achmed Khan's kid brother in Backyard Baseball (or another way to spell an Arab chief)
    Flightless bird from South America
6) Buddhist shrine
    Initials preceding "Constitution" or "Enterprise"
7) Gerund's suffix
    In the thick of
8) The Jane _____ Book Club (2007 romance film)
    Narcissist's problem
9) Code for crafting a webpage
    "Trembling" poplar tree

BANDS
A) Mr. _____ (villain from Batman & Robin who loves to make bad ice puns)
     Slab with hieroglyphs and Greek letters: 2 wds.
     One of 150 poems in the Old Testament
     Language spoken in Bangkok
     Covers with concrete
B) Jekyll's worse half
     Elvira, _____ of the Dark (horror host)
     Stir Crazy actor Wilder
     Destructive waves
C) LibreOffice's version of Microsoft Excel (or a college math course, for short)
     Hawaiian island with Waikiki Beach
     Baseballer Joe mentioned in "Mrs. Robinson"
D) Canine breed of Mr. Peanutbutter from BoJack Horseman

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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