PUZZLE #453
BUILDING FENCES 2
One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word 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!
If you don't recognize this type of puzzle despite the "2" in the title, there's a reason for that: I haven't made a "Building Fences" puzzle since way back in the first year of my blog, back when I went overboard with clues that required a very specific set of knowledge to figure out (not coincidentally, this was also well before I regularly used a test-solver for my puzzles). Seeing as it's been so long since then, you'll probably need to know what the directions are, so here they are!
Enclose each oddly shaped field with the required word by writing the letters in the circles ("Posts") along the boundaries of the field. Words may be entered in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. Since each field shares portions of its fence with its neighbors, you will find as you go along that parts of your next word may already be filled in.
Once you've completely filled in the grid, the outermost Posts, starting at the top left corner and reading clockwise, will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: a person's name
1) A little under two-and-a-half acres (HINT: It coincidentally anagrams into "THE ACRE")
2) Abe's bill, slangily
3) Disposes (of)
4) Container made out of a waffle in a Baskin-Robbins
5) Stop sign's shape
6) Soda or cider, say
7) Reroutes traffic
8) Tropical flower with over 2,000 species
9) Wager that's guaranteed to win: 2 wds.
10) "_____ in Me" (tune performed by Kaa in The Jungle Book)
11) Blue hedgehog playable in Sega Superstars Tennis
12) "Tonight, Tonight" or "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", for instance
13) French word for a sidling crustacean (which is the same as the English word, but with a vowel on the end)
14) Sets of points, in geometry
15) The main characters of Chicago P.D., e.g.
16) Whirling or twirling
17) Music video by Blind Melon with a "Bee Girl": 2 wds.
18) Warning regarding an errant golf ball
19) Laundry detergent worth shouting about?
20) Final move in many chess games
21) Decks used by fortune tellers
22) One who finished a race dead last, say
23) Mr. Holland's _____ (1995 film)
24) Remus who taught Defense Against the Dark Arts in the third Harry Potter book
25) Mel Blanc's only son (or a Christmas carol)
26) Kwik-E-_____ (convenience store frequented by the Simpsons)
27) Left on a luxury liner
28) Awakened
29) Most repulsive
30) Go extinct: 2 wds.
31) Comedians in Cars Getting _____ (talk show hosted by Jerry Seinfeld)
32) Painter Édouard who was friends with the almost-identically-named painter Claude
33) Most robust
34) Gene who played Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)
35) Duked it out
36) Resend an email to someone else
37) African capital with the largest population
38) Brooklyn and the Bronx, for two
39) Singer McLachlan who co-founded the Lilith Fair music festival
40) Judicial order
41) Country on the Dominican Republic's western border
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!
