PUZZLE #394: 5-Star Stumper 6

PUZZLE #394

5-STAR STUMPER 6

Happy Independence Day, everyone! To celebrate, I've crafted another installment of my most patriotic puzzle type: the red, white and blue "5-Star Stumper"! The Final Answer is also appropriate for today, since it involves a figure from American history, but if you need a refresher on how to figure it out, here are the directions:

The answer to each numbered pair of clues goes in the 10 spaces surrounding each correspondingly numbered star in the grid. The first answer of each set starts in the appropriately numbered space (with the arrow in the same space telling you which direction to go), and the second answer follows immediately after. Meanwhile, the answers that go in the red stripe surrounding the grid are clued in order, and even though it's up to you to determine where the chain of answers begins, we can tell you that the red stripe's answers go clockwise.

Once the entire grid has been filled in, reading the white spaces from left to right and top to bottom will reveal this week's FINAL ANSWER: A signer of the Declaration of Independence

STARS
1) Web browser that shows a pixelated T. rex when offline

    Supermarket section with slicers

2) Actress Wilson who played the title role in the 1996 movie Matilda

    Create charged particles

3) Mayor Foxington from DreamWorks Animation's The Bad Guys

    Gift alongside gold and frankincense

4) _____ horse (hiding spot for ancient Greek soldiers)

    Sweets-obsessed "Harmony Dragon" from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (anagram of MEAL)

5) Update an atlas

    Stephenie who wrote New Moon (2006)

RED STRIPE

• _____ Bay Lightning (NHL team)

• Robin Hood's gang: 2 wds.

• "Wing" in French (answer hidden in QUAILED)

• Portray someone as being worse than Satan and all of his minions combined, perhaps

• Rank just below lieutenant colonel

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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dYZw6iZ0sI59sSdjNijVcOF5Nf1IUYRu/view?usp=sharing