PUZZLE #422
MASQUERADE PARTY 2
Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular
order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated
by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with
its corresponding word to form a longer word.
Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a literary character who has worn many disguises
• Credit card carrier
• Forging or feigning (HINT: It also starts with "F")
• Given, like a genie's wish
• Inmate's supervised release
• Like mummies and zombies
• Skin swelling
• Throw _____ to the wind (act recklessly)
• Troop members selling Samoas and Thin Mints
• Weavers who (pretend to) make an outfit in The Emperor's New Clothes
DISGUISES
∮) Great horned owl's sound
␥) Involuntary twitch
☊) Astrological sign between Virgo and Scorpio
✾) PlayStation's second (and last) handheld console
⧯) Prog rock band whose album Fragile contains the hit song "Roundabout"
⇶) Pair of poles passed through while slalom skiing
♜) Former Dateline NBC anchor Curry
℺) Soft _____ ice cream
⧩) Proofreading symbol that's an upside-down "V"
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!
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