PUZZLE #368
EDGES OF GLORY
It's officially 2022 now, so what better way to celebrate that fact than to start the new year with a new puzzle format? This one's inspired by a puzzle type generally known as "edge-matching puzzles", but with letters involved (never mind that "TetraVex" from Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 already has a customization option involving letters, but I didn't know that when crafting this puzzle). If you want to see how that'll play out, then read on for the directions!
There are several squares divided into four triangles each, plus a grid to
fit them all into. First, fill in the squares with the 4-letter answers to
each corresponding clue, starting with the numbered triangle, and going
clockwise. Then, fit all of the filled-out squares into the grid below
(without rotating them) so that wherever two squares touch along one of
the heavy lines, the letters on both sides of the line are the same.
Once everything's in its proper place, the outer edges of the grid,
when read clockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name
of a reality show.
1) Tie tightly and securely
2) Fibula or tibia
3) Air vent
4) Ivy League school founded by Benjamin Franklin, for short
5) _____ Goldberg machine (ridiculously complicated contraption)
6) Hauls into court
7) Arizona-based team that lost to the Bucks in the 2021 NBA Finals
8) Once _____ a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino film)
9) With "The", daytime talk show created by Barbara Walters
10) Marlon's role in The Godfather (even if he'd prefer to be called "Godfather")
11) Nullified, like a losing check on The Price is Right's "Check Game"
12) Songbird whose name sounds like Stimpy's pal
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 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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