PUZZLE #441
QUADRUPLE CROSS 5
To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!
Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a game show
CLUES
1) Female name that anagrams to the male names "Jason" and "Jonas"
New age musician whose album Live at the Acropolis went four times platinum
2) G-sharp equivalent: Hyph.
Nabisco's wafer brand introduced in 1898
3) Biggest size of a Dairy Queen Blizzard
Dr. Seuss character who's against chopping down the Truffula Trees
4) Lizard whose sticky toes allow it to climb glass
Spreadsheet program in Microsoft Office
5) Foaming at the mouth, literally or otherwise
Obese alien parodied as "Pizza the Hutt" in Spaceballs
6) American state that borders British Columbia
_____ of Two Cities: 2 wds.
7) Raise an anchor
Synonym for "adage" that also starts with "A"
8) Fill up a bear at Build-A-Bear Workshop, perhaps
Steer clear of
9) Meaty part of a BLT
Scar, to Simba, in The Lion King
10) Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host Robin
Like a faulty faucet
11) Ball and _____
Nebraskan birth city of Warren Buffett
12) Enter computer data
Swimming pool's "height"
13) How often Santa checks his list
With "The", satirical news site with headlines like "World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice"
14) "Can't Get You Out of My Head" singer Minogue
Orchestra's second-largest string instrument (after the double bass)
15) Chaos and destruction
Had a crush on
16) Theodore Roosevelt's wife, or Woodrow Wilson's wife
"To _____ own self be true" (line from Hamlet)
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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