PUZZLE #489: Deck It Out 9

PUZZLE #439

DECK IT OUT 9

Fill in the answers to the clues below, then transfer the letters marked with playing card symbols to their proper places in the grid below. The number (or letter) of each clue will tell you what column to place those letters in. Once it's completely filled in, the grid will spell out a sentence that will provide a hint to the FINAL ANSWER.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is a short name

A) Dog Day Afternoon director Lumet

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2) "_____ Through the Tulips" (novelty song by Tiny Tim)

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3) Gentle heat

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4) Buccaneer such as Risky Boots from the Shantae video games

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5) Large ink stain

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6) Thermometer unit

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7) With "The", NBC sitcom set at Dunder Mifflin

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8) Half of a circle's diameter

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9) DVR remote button with two triangles pointing left

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10) Broke into, as a supposedly secure computer system

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J) Impulse _____ (abruptly purchasing stuff on a whim)

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Q) North American country where the game show Bumper Stumpers was filmed

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K) Pink hue named after a fish known for swimming upstream

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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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WVRfO1Mn09oKFlUaHLWibGLOIvO387bI/view?usp=sharing