PUZZLE #467: Anagram Magic Square 8

PUZZLE #467

ANAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE 8

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word or phrase 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!

The 5-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 six letters long, so add an extra letter to each 5-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 added letter of each answer, in numerical clue order, will spell out a clue; the FINAL ANSWER is the answer to that clue.

1) Muppet who often greets viewers with a hearty "Hi-ho!"

2) _____ 5 ("Wake Up Call" band)

3) Completely lacking (of)

4) Acquire

5) French soup sometimes made from lobster

6) Creepy-_____

7) Rodent that Bill Murray's character in Caddyshack tries to get rid of

8) Tall castle parts

9) Oscar from Sesame Street, for one

10) BBC detective series starring Idris Elba (or Martin with his 95 Theses)

11) Melting metal together

12) Prosper or flourish

13) Wrapped headwear worn by Bugs Bunny in Ali Baba Bunny

14) Australian airline nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo"

15) Force someone to do something

16) Not revealed, as a story

17) Us actress Nyong'o

18) Part of TBS or CBS

19) _____ joe sandwiches

20) What you take snapshots of Pokémon with in Pokémon Snap

21) Dove's urban relative

22) Fume with fury

23) Capital of Austria

24) A group of these horned mammals is called a "crash"

25) Metamorphic rock that sounds pleasant?

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!

ANSWERS: Diagramless Crossword 7

It's been close to two weeks since "Diagramless Crossword 7" was posted on this blog, so here's the list of the fifteen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• Lynn Sweeney
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Steve Gunter
• Perry Groot
• Mom

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #466: Fronts Off 7

PUZZLE #466

FRONTS OFF 7

First, find the answers to each clue so that there are two words in each rectangular box. Then change the first letter of each word to the new same letter for both words of a pair to form two new words, and write the new letter in the square box to the left of the rectangle.

Once you're done, read down the boxes to get the FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter word

1) Sheep that are shes

    Optical mindboggler such as the endless Penrose Stairs

2) Maid of _____

    Lighthouse's light

3) Power-absorbing mutant played by Anna Paquin in X-Men (2000)

    _____ Club (Boy George's band)

4) Choice meaning "none of the above"

    What Barbie's "skin" is made of

5) Parisian subway

    Comic book artist Dave who drew Watchmen (or some long-armed apes)

6) Pointy part of a handsaw

    Modern-day icebox

7) Word preceding "down" and "mein"

    Michael Jackson album with "Beat It" and "Billie Jean"

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!

ANSWERS: Anagram Chambers 11

It's been almost two weeks since "Anagram Chambers 11" was posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to reveal the names of everyone who has solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• Patrick Jordan
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Steve Gunter
• Tamara Brenner
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• Perry Groot

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #465: Diagramless Crossword 7

PUZZLE #465

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 7

Diagramless crosswords are solved by using the clues and their numbers to fill in the answers as well as the black squares. When completely filled in, the black squares in the grid will have diagonal symmetry, meaning that they'll look the same when rotated upside-down. As a help, the first number has already been placed in the grid.

Once everything's filled in, two of the across answers will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: A fictional character's name.

ACROSS

1) One of two limbs missing from the Venus de Milo statue

4) Female pig or guinea pig

7) Recede, like the tide

10) Necklaces from Honolulu

12) Osso _____ (veal-based dish)

13) The Loud family's pet hamster in The Loud House (or a prefix meaning "earth")

14) Pimples

15) Developer of the arcade games Bubble Bobble and Space Invaders

16) Gadot who cameoed as Wonder Woman in The Flash (2023)

17) Without accompaniment

20) PART ONE OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE

23) Beyond Good and _____ (2003 Ubisoft video game)

24) Adjective for Al Yankovic

25) South Korean rapper who had a couple other Top 40 hits besides "Gangnam Style"

26) First name of Tom Hanks' wife

27) Bandmate of Crosby, Stills, and Young

29) @ @ @ @

30) Quickly touch an icon on an iPhone

32) Units of electrical resistance

35) Magnesite, magnetite & malachite, e.g.

37) Number of contestants in The Price is Right's final Showcase round

40) Flora and fauna (anagram of "I BOAT")

43) Famed music venue in Nashville, briefly

44) PART TWO OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE

47) Eagerly look forward to

48) _____ Balls (pink treats by Hostess)

50) Celery piece

51) MLB team in Cincinnati

53) Moray, for one

54) Semiaquatic salamander

55) Thanos's action at the end of Avengers: Infinity War that got rid of half of Earth's population

56) Ingredient that makes a red velvet cake red

57) _____-la-la

58) Wipe up water, as with a towel

DOWN

1) Apple pie _____ mode: 2 wds.

2) Happen again, like a nightmare

3) Tiny fish that was the namesake for Gilligan's boat

4) Get dressed in armor, maybe: 2 wds.

5) Full sets of black pawns and white pawns, perhaps

6) Owl who says "Give a Hoot! Don't Pollute!"

7) It's laid by a loggerhead turtle

8) Dr. Honeydew's assistant in The Muppet Show

9) South American country whose largest city is Santa Cruz

11) Now You _____ (heist film about thieving magicians): 2 wds.

12) Building raised in an Amish project

15) Fungus that's also the last name of Princess Peach

18) Swivel on a swivel chair

19) Triceratops from The Land Before Time whose name is found in "TRICERATOPS"

21) "Same here!"

22) Kind of scene that may start with the line "I remember it like it was just yesterday..."

28) Silent member of the Marx Brothers

31) Studied thoroughly

33) Music format for many early '90s MS-DOS games

34) Chicken _____ for the American Idol Soul (actual book from 2007)

36) Capital of New South Wales, Australia

37) Elizabethan contraction with two apostrophes

38) Modern Family actress Ariel

39) Ontario birthplace of Alanis Morissette

41) Nicholas I and Nicholas II

42) Go to a show

45) Dagger handle

46) _____ Point (amusement park in Ohio)

49) Exclamation in Ecuador

52) Secret agent man

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!

ANSWERS: Dilly Dally 6

It's been about two weeks since my semi-Halloween-themed "Dilly Dally 6" was posted on this blog, so now's the time for me to list the names of all sixteen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Michael Lebowitz
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Tamara Brenner
• Patrick Jordan
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney
• KeoFam
• Mom

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #464: Anagram Chambers 11

PUZZLE #464

ANAGRAM CHAMBERS 11

For this puzzle, there are several dark-green "chambers" with yellow rectangles and light green squares in them. For each chamber, you take a word in the first yellow rectangle as hinted at by the clue, add a letter from the light green square, and scramble them to get a word in the second yellow rectangle, then you repeat the process to get the word in the third yellow rectangle. Unfortunately, none of the chambers are labeled, and all seven sets of clues are in no particular order, so you have to figure out which set of answers go to which proper chamber so the columns of light green squares will both spell out words reading vertically.

Once all of the chambers are in the correct order, the light green squares will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a two-word phrase

• [Got a five-finger discount, so to speak] + _ = [Red Monopoly pieces] + _ = [Small country completely surrounded by South Africa]

• [Feature on a Ruffles potato chip] + _ = [Mr. Howe, also known as "Mr. Hockey"] + _ = [Paid no attention to]

• ["_____ U Been Gone" (Kelly Clarkson hit)] + _ = [Cricket or cockroach, e.g.] + _ = [Guide for tracing letters]

• [What the matching ends of magnets do] + _ = [Assistant] + _ = [Parks and Recreation star Amy]

• [Rotating item in geography class] + _ = [Word-searching game with lettered dice] + _ = [Online journal-hosting site owned by Google since 2003]

• [Planet that's listed first alphabetically] + _ = [Message from a blackmailer, basically] + _ = [_____ & Clank: Rift Apart (PlayStation 5 game)]

• [David who voiced Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove] + _ = [Temporarily stopped a YouTube video] + _ = [Revises with new info]

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!

ANSWERS: Mini-Marching Bands 7

It's been nearly two weeks since "Mini-Marching Bands 7" was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have correctly solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• M. Sean Molley
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Perry Groot
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• KeoFam
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers and a solver's comment!