Monday, August 22, 2022

PUZZLE #401: Sunburst 4

PUZZLE #401
SUNBURST 4

One of the clues in 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!

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a television show that debuted in the 1980s


4-LETTER WORDS
1) Sea mammal with white ovals called "eyespots" or "eye patches"
2) College graduate, for short
3) Miami team that Dwyane Wade originally played for
4) Aloe _____ (houseplant used as a lotion ingredient)
5) Redding nicknamed "The King of Soul"
6) Shoestring with an aglet
7) Orbs in a pot pie
8) Bide one's time
9) 3,600 seconds
10) Real first name of the X-Men foe Juggernaut (or Adam & Eve's eldest son)
11) Klutz's interjection
12) Chuck-a-luck or Chinese checkers, e.g.
13) Fruit company with a sun in its logo
14) Long location to dock a ship
15) "I'm the _____ One" (top ten single for Melissa Etheridge)
16) Female friend in France
17) Borrowed bank money that usually costs more to pay back
18) The Mothman Prophecies star Richard

5-LETTER WORDS
• 1998 Disney film with characters named Cri-Kee and Mushu
• Age like bananas
• _____ as a whistle
The Blacklist actress Boone
• Businessman Bushnell who founded both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
• Colorado city where the Winter X Games are held
• "Er, um, ah, well, that is to say....": 2 wds.
• Great Lake with the second-shortest name
• It ran away with a dish
• Joel Coen's brother
• Like bygone days
• Oak seed that's also the name of a former British computer company
• "Ohhh, you are going down!": 2 wds.
• Onetime worshipper of the sun god Inti
• Plastic used in most dental floss
• Skin color of Peridot from Steven Universe
That's So _____ (2000s Disney Channel sitcom)
Tom Sawyer Abroad novelist Mark

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!

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