Monday, September 19, 2022

PUZZLE #405: Honeycomb 4

PUZZLE #405
HONEYCOMB 4

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a phrase 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!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word


1) The northernmost capital in the United States
2) _____ Augustus (Roman emperor who, ironically, wasn't born in August)
3) Ascent automaker
4) Gave shelter to
5) Apple music application that debuted before Apple Music
6) Nickname of a supposed loch resident
7) Relatives of minks and martens
8) _____ jeopardy
9) Bun, bob, or beehive, e.g.
10) Bright green topping on a Chicago-style hot dog
11) Dorough from the Backstreet Boys and Mandel from America's Got Talent, for two
12) Not very sensible
13) Gassed up a jet
14) Attacked the fridge, maybe
15) Syndrome's female assistant in The Incredibles
16) Practices one of the three R's (specifically, the one listed before "recycle")
17) Greek island once home to the Ancient Wonder known as the Colossus
18) Descend: 2 wds.
19) Relating to mushrooms and yeast
20) Overly ornate
21) Inflatable part of a steering wheel
22) Car repair shop
23) Fast & Furious 6 actor Gibson
24) City that's home to Texas A&M International University
25) "We Have the Meats", to Arby's
26) Tesla who invented the Tesla coil
27) _____ Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (point-and-click adventure game)
28) American Red Cross founder Clara
29) Home for a beekeeper's hives
30) Ongoing story, such as a soap opera
31) Shown to one's seat: 2 wds.
32) Performing a feint on a hockey rink
33) Remove a salmon's skeleton, say
34) It's "in the Sky" in a Norman Greenbaum song
35) "history of the _____ world, i guess" (animated YouTube video with over 146 million views)
36) Navy rank that's above no other rank
37) Exceptionally talented

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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