Monday, March 10, 2025

PUZZLE #534: Quadruple Cross 6

PUZZLE #534
QUADRUPLE CROSS 6

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!

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of an Oscar-winning film from the 1960s


CLUES
1) Inner turmoil for a teenager
    Winter Olympian on a sled
2) Cinnamon roll's scent, say
    Wood-burning appliance of old
3) Bespectacled cartoon character who first says "Jinkies!" in The New Scooby-Doo Movies
    Where's _____? In Hollywood (1993 picture book)
4) Corn, or a color named after corn
    Mammal whose full name is from the Greek for "nose-horned"
5) Bank of America's virtual assistant whose name is hiding inside "BANK OF AMERICA"
    Spanish island known for its nightlife
6) Avant-garde rocker Frank who once wrote a song about yellow snow
    Flavor of syrup that Canada has an emergency reserve of
7) Temporarily stop a Netflix video, perhaps
    Tic-Tac-_____ (game show where Thom McKee won 43 matches in a row in 1980)
8) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, for one
    "Lucky" digit on a slot machine
9) Bright-eyed and _____-tailed
    Social system of ancient India
10) Bloodsucking parasite, literally or figuratively
      Laughing carnivore
11) Blinky, Pinky, Inky, or Clyde from Pac-Man, e.g.
      Smile 2 actress Scott
12) Dungeons & Dragons monster that can imitate treasure chests (or a synonym for "imitate")
      Hunter Fudd from the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Fire
13) Male singing voice higher than baritone
      Wing newly added to a building
14) Banish to parts unknown
      East Asian country where fireworks were invented
15) Group of employees
      Terrier's tether
16) Greek muse of poetry (anagram of OATER)
      "_____ Your Groove Thing" (disco song by Peaches & Herb)

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!

2 comments:

  1. The second clue in 11 spoils the answer

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    1. Whoops! How did I miss that? Well, regardless of how it happened, that clue is fixed now! Thanks for pointing that mistake out!

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