PUZZLE #563: Word Squares: Projectors 8

PUZZLE #563

WORD SQUARES: PROJECTORS 8

There are a series of clues whose answers will fit into the provided grid, reading across and down. However, all of the answers are one letter too long to fit in properly, so each one must have either its first or last letter sticking out (or "projecting" out) of the grid. Once you're done, start at the top left and read the "Projectors" either clockwise or counterclockwise to get another word or phrase. In the example above, the Projectors spell out SAMPLE.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the eight-letter name of a pro wrestler in the WWE Hall of Fame.

CLUES

• Lord in the Middle Ages, or his servant

• No longer follow or get notifications from a YouTube channel, briefly

• Organized group of players in an online role-playing game (or an association of craftsmen)

• Particle that binds quarks together like an adhesive (anagram of "LONG U")

• Shaquille who was the NBA's Rookie of the Year in 1993

• Sit down and _____ little while (relax): 2 wds.

• Terrible 2018 film where John Travolta played the titular "Teflon Don"

• Undercover agent's info on foes, for short

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: Lucky Sevens 15

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Lucky Sevens 15" was posted on this blog, and plenty of people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Marie desJardins
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Okieboy2008
• Chris Kochmanski
• Derek Allen
• Sam Levitin
• Adam Weaver
• KeoFam
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney
• Wendy Walker

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #562: Flower Power 9

PUZZLE #562

FLOWER POWER 9

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a flowering plant

CLOCKWISE

1) Hawaiian island or a Hawaiian patio

2) "_____ Mind Set on You" (George Harrison song): 2 wds.

3) Complete beginners in online games, slangily

4) Villain from Othello and Jafar's parrot from Aladdin, for two

5) Japanese camera brand used by Veronica Mars

6) Herbie _____ Again (1974 sequel to The Love Bug)

7) Schindler who is buried in Jerusalem

8) Boxes of pre-prepared brownie ingredients

9) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Carroll

10) Body minus the head and limbs

11) Gets together, or events where runners get together

12) MTV hidden camera show that host Ashton Kutcher pretended to cancel after season 2

13) Chromosome components

14) Furious

15) John who co-wrote and co-sung "She's Gone" with Daryl Hall

16) Fix a shoelace that didn't get laced properly the first time

17) Ten or more of these equal a first down in football

18) Budapest-born billionaire George

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) "Slow" primate from Southeast Asia

2) En _____ (fencing phrase)

3) Taboos for a toddler: Hyph.

4) Greek letters that look like Roman numerals for 1

5) Tennis star Osaka

6) Raccoon from Regular Show who once got turned into a house (yes, really)

7) Greek yogurt brand sold by Dannon

8) Pre-Windows operating system with games such as Commander Keen: Hyph.

9) Compare, but not contrast

10) Southern state with the Bull Riding Hall of Fame

11) Grass-cutting machine

12) Fairies in Persian myth (anagram of SPIRE)

13) _____ Who? (board game with 24 faces to choose from)

14) Slowly, in classical music

15) Sows' sounds

16) Went "Oh my gosh, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life!", maybe

17) Hairy Himalayan creatures of legend

18) Full from food

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: Logicrossword 2

It's been almost two weeks since "Logicrossword 2" was posted on this blog, so now it's time to take a look at all of the people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Marie desJardins
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Chris Kochmanski
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Okieboy2008 [Hint Used]
• Derek Allen
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney
• Adam Weaver
• Mom [Hints Used]

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #561: Lucky Sevens 15

PUZZLE #561

LUCKY SEVENS 15

Before we get to the directions, I wanted to alert you all that there's been a small change in them. Normally, the FINAL ANSWER is read in the colored squares using the numeric order of the seven Sevens. However, I was unable to get a proper word out of my usual extraction system this time, so I had to resort to having the FINAL ANSWER be read backwards. I put this warning here (and on this puzzle's original post back on my Patreon page) because I'm just paranoid that any solvers who have done this type of puzzle multiple times would go into autopilot and thus get confused that the colored squares don't seem to make a proper word this time. I don't know if those worries of mine would've been justified or not, but what's done is done, so now it's time to get to the directions proper (which aren't nearly as long as this opening paragraph!).

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, read the letters in the colored squares in the reverse order of the Sevens that they appear in (in accordance of the colors of the rainbow, starting with the red square in the Seven marked with a 7) to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter place

ROWS

i) "Mad" messy-haired witch from Disney's The Sword in the Stone

ii) Chimpanzee who escaped from a Serbian zoo twice (or the first parts of a Green Eggs and Ham character)

iii) Birth year of the Roman emperor Claudius, which is about a decade before AD started: 2 wds.

iv) Skyscraper's supporting beam

v) Alex Keaton's "material girl" of a sister in Family Ties

vi) _____ for Godot (play whose title character never shows up)

vii) Giant sea monsters seen in both versions of Clash of the Titans

viii) Credit card company whose cards have a dove hologram on them

ix) Actor Barinholtz who won both Celebrity Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

x) Musical note before the scale loops back to "do"

xi) Letter above a sleeping comic strip character's head

SEVENS

1) "Fly Away" and "Dig In" rock singer Lenny

2) Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii

3) Adjective for a falcon statuette in a Humphrey Bogart movie

4) "_____ Country Song" (platinum-certified country single that hates bro-country): 3 wds.

5) Muscle-to-bone connectors

6) Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy

7) Copycat's talent

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: Coined Phrases 7

It's been almost two weeks since "Coined Phrases 7" got posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Marie desJardins
• Cathy Bowen
• Cindy Heisler
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Michael Lebowitz
• Chris Kochmanski
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Craig Leach
• Stasi Gustafson
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter
• Derek Allen

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #560: Logicrossword 2

PUZZLE #560

LOGICROSSWORD 2

This puzzle (suggested by Patron Grant Fikes) 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!

Using the clues below (as well as your vocabulary and logic skills), blacken some cells in the grid and fill the rest with letters to form words that are two or more letters long. All of the resulting words are legal to play in Scrabble, contain at least one vowel, and should be reasonably familiar to most people (those that aren't may be explicitly mentioned in the clues).

Once the grid has been correctly filled out, use it to get the FINAL ANSWER: the longest word in the solved grid which doesn’t contain the letter "T".

• No two black cells share an edge, though some of them do touch at their corners. All the white cells connect each other through their edges.

• There are 13 black cells in total throughout the grid. Four of those black cells are in Row 5, and five more black cells are in the four rows above it.

• A word in Row 2, 3, or 4 contains the letter sequence "DD"; the only other set of double consonants in the entire grid appears in the row immediately above this word.

• The only black cell in Row 9 is either in Column A or Column I.

• The first word in Column A starts and ends with the same letter; that letter doesn't appear anywhere else in the grid.

• Column C contains the words ALFA and GIRN (though not necessarily in that order); one of those words intersects the word LEONINE.

• Column G contains the word VIER, which intersects the word UTES.

• None of the columns have a word beginning with the letter "O".

• The vowels in B1 and A3 (neither of which is an "A" or "E") are identical to each other.

• The only two 9-letter words in the grid both end with the string of letters "ESTI_E" intersecting each other at F6.

• The word AVERS is in the same column as the word ENS, though not necessarily in that order.

• One word in the grid is an anagram of SPIRITED and ends with "S". An anagram of TRINE runs parallel to, and touches, this 8-letter word.

• The letter "D" appears four times, with no more than one appearing in a single column, and none in Column B.

• The four "L"s in the grid all lie within a group of four consecutive rows (not necessarily having one in each row).

• The three 2-letter words in the grid are AH, RE, and UP.

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: Sunburst 7

Two weeks have passed by since "Sunburst 7" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Marie desJardins
• Cathy Bowen
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Michael Lebowitz
• Derek Allen
• Chris Kochmanski
• Wendy Walker
• Stasi Gustafson
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Craig Leach
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #559: Coined Phrases 7

PUZZLE #559

COINED PHRASES 7

There is a set of five coins, all of which have one letter on each of their two faces. Each letter appears only once throughout the set, and no two coins share the same letter. Random flips of all the coins have produced six 5-letters words hinted at by the numbered clues. Once all six answers have been solved, use logic and deductive reasoning to figure out the letters that are printed on each coin. Finally, rearrange the coins so that both sides spell out two more 5-letter words that combine to make a two-word phrase.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of a dog breed

1) Wails like a werewolf

2) Scottish lakes (one of which may or may not contain a monster)

3) Skill needed to solve Masyu, Shikaku, or Sudoku puzzles

4) The Taming of the _____ (Shakespeare play featured in Kiss Me, Kate)

5) Former PepsiCo soda line named after a piece of lemon or lime

6) Metal strings used to make old coat hangers

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!