PUZZLE #381: Masquerade Party

PUZZLE #381

MASQUERADE PARTY

This puzzle contains a word 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!

Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with its corresponding word to form a longer word.

Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: Something that can be changed

WORDS

• Back-up vocalists, for example

• Future husband

• Moving like magma

• Old, but valuable vase, say

• Peace pact

• Send out RSVPs

• Served up gelato

• The _____ Woman (spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man)

• What Forrest Gump uses to hit ping-pong balls

DISGUISES

⧓) Anchovy's appendage

֎) Spool for a silent movie, say

⮝) Biblical boat featured in a Schoolhouse Rock episode about multiplying by two

℧) Five-letter prefix for "world", "weight", "water", and "wear"

𝄇) A heptagon has seven of these

♥) "_____ Out of Love" (Air Supply song)

⩄) Location for Batman's secret lair

◕) Statistical chart with X and Y axes

★) Singer who famously tells Nicolas Cage to "Snap out of it!" in Moonstruck

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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aIddvXl1f7TYwhLOR6rnHXxOlLFj15tu/view?usp=sharing