PUZZLE #390
MOVING STAIRCASES 12
The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.
Once you've completely filled out the grid, the FINAL ANSWER (a two-word phrase or the name of a British game show) will be hidden inside it; one of the words is hidden horizontally (is it a Short or a Long? that's up to you to find out!), while the other is hidden vertically.
SHORTS
• "Aunty" played by Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Well, it's either that, or an overly vague clue like "Thing that exists")
• Have a little too much adult beverage consumption
• Megamind's sidekick in Megamind (or a synonym for "underling")
• _____-of-age story
• One of four on a viola or bass
• Take a stand against
• With "The", 2001 movie with Nicole Kidman in a haunted mansion
LONGS
• Bestow rightful ownership
• Giving the waitress 15% of a check's value, say
• Score like Schubert or Strauss
• Subjective judgment that should never be confused for fact
• The _____ of Invention (Frank Zappa's band)
• Tough to the bite, like some meat
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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