PUZZLE #436
MOVING STAIRCASES 13
The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.
Once you've completely filled out the grid, hidden inside it will be this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a newspaper comic whose name is not hidden horizontally or vertically.
SHORTS
• Cumberbatch’s role in The Imitation Game
• Dolly with a Dollywood theme park
• "Happier than Ever" singer Eilish
• _____ in (exchanged for money)
• New York City's largest borough
• Scuba tank-wearing explorers
• Villainous insect who gets eaten by baby birds at the end of A Bug's Life
LONGS
• Dishes that serve soup or stew
• _____ gifts (consolation prizes for losing game show contestants)
• Having a large variety of ethnicities
• Number whose cube root is 1,000
• Reindeer who's part of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece (or a slangy term for a helicopter)
• Suppressed, as dissidents
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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