PUZZLE #224
ANACROSSWORD 3
Today's offering is a type of puzzle I've done before, so there shouldn't be any major changes from the previous two installments.
APRIL FOOLS! I was inspired by the obscure (and exhausting) game show
Whew! to completely change up this puzzle's clues! Read on and see what I mean!
Each clue is a factual statement, but one word has been altered in each one. The answer to each clue is the word that replaces each underlined section so that each statement makes sense. Solve as many as you can and transfer the answers into the crossword grid. Then, transfer the letters in the filled numbered squares to each of the correspondingly numbered dashes. Work back and forth between the crossword and the numbered dashes until the crossword is filled and the dashes read out a legible sentence.
Once you're done with everything, the sentence will be revealed, but its last word has been changed. The FINAL ANSWER is a noun that should replace that incorrect word.
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CLUES
* The current host of
America's Funniest Home Videos is
Carlton Ribeiro
* The names of Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers are Porthos,
Bathhouse, and Aramis
* Foxes and wolves are both part of the
nuclear family
* The capital of Wyoming is
the letter "W"
* Ceres, Eris, and Pluto are all examples of
vertically-challenged planets
* Since 2013, Guy Fieri has hosted
Guy's Totally Not Supermarket Sweep Games on Food Network
* The last name of alternative rock musician Beck is
unknown to everyone, even himself
* In 1996, The Wallflowers had their highest-charting hit song with "One
Hit Wonder"
* Harry Potter and Ron Weasley both attended
Goosepimples School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
* In Lewis Carroll's
Through the Looking-Glass, Alice comes across a nonsense poem called
"Gibberish"
* At 555 feet, the tallest building in Washington, D.C. is the Washington
Pointy Thing
* Rebecca Romijn and Jennifer Lawrence have both played
Smurfette in the
X-Men film series
* The state bird of Hawaii is the
humuhumunukunukuapua'a
* "I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant" is the opening line to the Hippocratic
Swear Words
* Most leather jackets are made from the
chewed-up hide of various animals
* The
Wonderbolts are the official aerobatic squadron of the US Air Force
* Forest
Forthetrees played the role of Zuri in 2018's
Black Panther
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 get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) 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
two versions you can print out: the usual .PNG file, and a link to a .PDF file!
