PUZZLE #601
ALL FOUR ONE 2
There are four mostly-empty 4x4 crossword grids, as well as four sets of
eight clues. Arrange the answers from each set of clues into a grid where
they can all properly fit, so that every grid has four words reading down
and four words reading across. After that, transfer the completed grids into
the four sections of the larger diagram beneath them so that four 8-letter
words are formed reading across the top and bottom, and down the left and
right sides.
Once everything is correctly filled in, take one of the newly-formed 8-letter words and combine it with one of the 4-letter entries (not necessarily in that order) to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a hit song from the 1980s
SET #1
• Away from the wind, to a ship's captain
• Egyptian Monster High character named after her country's last queen
• Iranian currency that becomes an animal den when spelled backwards
• Norwegian capital with a viking ship museum
• Pumice or Petoskey stone, for example
• Roundish roller coaster segment
• Speck of land on an ocean map
• "You _____ Me Hangin' On" (#1 hit by the Supremes or Kim Wilde)
SET #2
• Birthstone for October
• Dog food brand that anagrams to the previous clue's answer
• Finish Press Your Luck with four Whammies and no dollars, say
• Grunge band fronted by Courtney Love
• Power_____ Simulator (pressurized water cleaning-based video game)
• "Red" and "Yellow" bodies of water (but not "Blue", weirdly enough)
• Sweater fabric that a ewe grew
• Vowel-heavy form of margarine
SET #3
• Brickell who sang "What I Am" with the New Bohemians
• Colored part of a human eyeball
• Grew older, but not necessarily wiser
• Malice (1993) actor and one-time Match Game host Baldwin
• Person wearing a pearl earring in a famous Vermeer painting
• Sneaker brand hiding in the name "OCTAVIAN"
• The "D" in CD-ROM
• Veni, _____, vici
SET #4
• Chess position where a checked king has nowhere to go, for short
• "Coming _____ to a theater near you!"
• Make a buck or two
• Princess from Flash Gordon (or a New Age-y glow)
• Swirl around a swizzle stick, perhaps
• Vehicle from Volvo or Volkswagen
• What kilograms measure (HINT: it's not "weight"; that'd be too long)
• Yakko, Wakko, and Dot from Animaniacs, for one
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!
