Monday, April 15, 2024

PUZZLE #487: Masquerade Party 3

PUZZLE #487
MASQUERADE PARTY 3

Below are rows of blanks that each need to be filled in with a 6- or 7-letter word; these words are clued in no particular order. However, one letter in each word is "in disguise" as another word. The locations of the disguised letters are indicated by symbols and the disguises themselves are clued next to those symbols below. Replace each symbol/disguised letter with its corresponding word to form a longer word.

Once everything has been correctly filled out, the letters that have been replaced by symbols will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a movie that has been nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar


WORDS
• Brand of adorably small mandarin oranges
• Credit for a crossword constructor or newswriter
• Game Boy _____ SP (Nintendo handheld released in 2003)
• Going "Nyah-nyah-nyah!" to
• Grapefruit-flavored soda with the same owners as Dr. Pepper
• Made larger or smaller in Photoshop, say
• "_____ of Truth" (hit Depeche Mode single)
• Start a new paragraph
• Stiff and sensitive hair jutting out of Top Cat's face

DISGUISES
) Play a ukulele idly
) Girl from Glasgow
) Recess game with kids who are "not it"
) Part of MPG or WPM
) Be dependent (on)
) Electronic keyboard heard in Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F", for short
🃡) Shazam! star Zachary
) _____ Aviv, Israel
) Taxonomic rank between "class" and "family"

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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