PUZZLE #382
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 18
For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a well-known reality TV series
CENTERS
1) Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon character who's a lunar exploration vehicle
2) Overplay feelings on stage, maybe
3) To _____ the Truth (long-running game show)
4) Frolic in the field
5) Short Morse code sound
6) Brick-carrying box
7) Competition at Talladega Superspeedway, say
8) Drei + fünf (okay, it's "three + five" in German)
WHOLES
• America's Cup crafts
• Biblical words of wisdom
• More desolate and far away
• Overwatch heroine with goggles and a British accent (or a bullet with a trail)
• Providence, _____ Island
• Right on time
• Verdi opera with roles named Iago and Desdemona
• Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize
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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