PUZZLE #395
SUPER SIXES 5
Enter the answers to the Across clues in the appropriate rows reading from left to right. The answer to each "Sixes" clue starts in the numbered square and goes either clockwise or counterclockwise around its 3x2 rectangle (the direction is left for you to determine by using the Across answers).
Once you've completely filled in the grid, the letters in the gray squares, read from top to bottom, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a hit song from 1996
ACROSS
i) The quick _____ fox jumps over the lazy dog (sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet)
ii) Equine that you "ride" in the arcade game Final Furlong
iii) Royal spouses
iv) European treat similar to a snow cone: 2 wds.
v) Dart out in different directions
Pacific Northwest state where The Angry Beavers is set
vi) Did a little turn on the catwalk, say
Actresses Roberts and Louis-Dreyfus
vii) Dress that's really easy to put on
"I Love a Rainy Night" singer Eddie
viii) Sending to the sidelines
NBA player from New Orleans
ix) Unprovoked hostility
Fly Like an _____ (Steve Miller Band album)
x) Skilled craftsperson
Aviator outfits that prevent blackouts: Hyph.
xi) The Statue of Liberty's base
Person paid to park Porsches, perhaps
xii) Brightly-colored bird that catches tiny trouts
xiii) Words with the same definitions as each other
xiv) Colorful candy discs once sold under the Willy Wonka brand
xv) African-American magazine first published in 1945
SIXES
1) Ornamental pin
2) Become cruddier in quality
3) Brief instances (anagram of STERIC)
4) Mama's Family or Modern Family, e.g.
5) Head of the Huns seen in Night at the Museum
6) "Just Give Me a _____" (song by Pink featuring Nate Ruess of fun.)
7) Surname of Barney from Bedrock
8) Adam who sings for Maroon 5
9) Contained like Smucker's jelly
10) Miss _____ (Broadway musical set in Vietnam)
11) Natural knack
12) Baked goods from Einstein Bros.
13) Fantaisie-Impromptu composer Frédéric
14) Scottish language that gave us the words "slogan" and "loch"
15) TV show's season, in the UK (or the entire TV show, in the US)
16) Hand out, as homework
17) Annual tournament held at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center: 2 wds.
18) The Baker _____ Irregulars (Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts)
19) Leave the premises
20) Elaborately extravagant
21) Metallic jug that can hold a little over a liter of wine
22) Like Olive Oyl's body
23) Voyager 1 and New Horizons, for two
24) Boss's bootlickers
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!
