Monday, February 19, 2024

PUZZLE #479: Loopy Links

PUZZLE #479
LOOPY LINKS

All of the answers in this puzzle weave through the grid in a single long chain via a series of straight lines and right-angled turns. Each square is used once except where the answers link together in squares with circles in them, each serving as the last letter of one answer and the first letter of the next. The letters in these circled squares are blank and for you to fill in. The chain begins and ends in squares that have letters already filled in.

Once you've solved this puzzle, the circled letters (when read left to right starting at the topmost row) will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: a proper name


1) Long-haired princess voiced by Mandy Moore in Disney's Tangled
2) Lower back pain
3) _____ Magic (Shaq's original NBA team)
4) It measures how far your car goes
5) Rock paper scissors
6) Three sixteenths plus five sixteenths: 2 wds.
7) Total debacle
8) Desdemona's husband in a Shakespeare play
9) Geographically-oriented Wheel of Fortune category: 3 wds.
10) E _____ unum (Latin phrase meaning "Out of many, one")
11) Scoopable dessert that comes in a "rainbow" flavor
12) Parody
13) "I'm Like a Bird" singer Nelly
14) Animal voiced by William Shatner in Over the Hedge who overacts while playing dead
15) Barrel of _____ (toy originally made in the 1960s)
16) WetJet manufacturer
17) Soak up again
18) According to Jim star Jim
19) Like this type of text
20) _____ rolls (pastries also known as croissants)
21) Type of questions to answer in video games like Buzz!: Quiz World
22) Tick or scorpion, say
23) Google Drive alternative

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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