PUZZLE #419
ANAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE 7: STILL MORE SUBTRACTING & SCRAMBLING
It's the day after Christmas, which means that it's Boxing Day in Canada! And to celebrate that fact, I'm bringing out a puzzle type that just so happens to have a bunch of boxes in it! Since it's been over a year since I last posted a puzzle of this type (and even longer since I last posted its "subtraction" variant), here are the directions in case you need a refresher:
The 6-letter word in each box is an anagram to the answer to each of the clues below.... almost. You see, in this puzzle, all of the answers are five letters long, so remove an extra letter from each 6-letter word to get each answer. Put the number of each corresponding clue into the small box below the initial word and write down the anagram on the dash directly below that. The numbers in each row and column will add up to 65.
Once you're done with the puzzle, the subtracted letter of each answer, in numerical clue order, will spell out a clue; the FINAL ANSWER is the proper noun hinted at by the clue.
1) Snared with a lariat
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!
Once you're done with the puzzle, the subtracted letter of each answer, in numerical clue order, will spell out a clue; the FINAL ANSWER is the proper noun hinted at by the clue.
1) Snared with a lariat
2) The five stages of _____
3) University of Florida athlete
4) Scuba tank wearer
5) Battery, bribery, or burglary
6) "Ewwww, yuck!"
7) Enjoys Juicy Fruit, say
8) _____ of a Wimpy Kid (book series by Jeff Kinney)
9) Janet Jackson hit where she states "My first name ain't 'Baby', it's Janet"
10) Kindergartener's wheels, for short
11) The "Good Little Witch" who's pals with Casper the Friendly Ghost
12) Walked back and forth and back and forth
13) Pulsate like a headache
14) Make dough, literally
15) Type of leaf on the back of a Canadian penny
16) Tips on how to solve a puzzle in the Professor Layton games, e.g.
17) Protrude outward
18) Do not open _____ Christmas
19) Medium for KROQ-FM
20) Traveling carnivals
21) National flower of both Turkey and the Netherlands
22) Group of Wiccans
23) Shovel Knight's suit
24) Laundry room's lint collector
25) Common thread in a crossword puzzle's longest answers, perhaps
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!
