GAME SHOW MONTH!
PUZZLE #138
BRICK BY BRICK 3
It should be no secret by now that I love game shows, so to make that fact even clearer, I'm going to do another theme month in the form of
Game Show Month! All this month will feature puzzles inspired by, or referencing, various game shows!
The first puzzle of this month will have its FINAL ANSWER be about a newer show called
Steve Harvey's Funderdome. Okay, I know it's more of a competitive reality show than anything else, but competitive reality shows are still
technically game shows, so for the purposes of this month, it still counts. So as Steve himself would say in every episode, let's get down to business!
Place the 2x3 bricks into the grid below so that a crossword puzzle with rotational symmetry is formed. Each of the Across and Down clues hint at answers that appear in that row or column, all of which are in order.
Be careful with the rows marked with a 7, 8, and 9, as the bricks that are placed in those rows will be split in half by a blue line, which you can see in the diagram above. Also, the letters that go in the blue line's squares will complete one answer in every Down column, though you'll have to figure out what those letters are.
This week's FINAL ANSWER is a product featured in an episode of Steve Harvey's Funderdome
ACROSS
1) MacBook Air manufacturers
Grievous bodily _____
Air pollution in L.A.
2) Bird with a drooping feather cluster on top of its head
Molded curve overused in crosswords
Bridgestone product
3) Last name of Felix from The Odd Couple
Typed message from a smartphone
Dutch cheese coated in red wax
4) The Blob That _____ Everyone (Goosebumps book)
Makes a decision
Female news reporter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5) Not me
Ingredient in homemade slime
6) Org. that launched Skylab
Transportation company with a LOT more bad publicity than Lyft
Top-story studios
7) Sea creature that's basically a spiky ball
_____ Monsters (card game in Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Dada artist Jean seen in way too many crosswords
8) THE FINAL ANSWER
9) Many, many millennia
Spa treatment to go with a mani
"Sure thing, Cap'n!"
10) Use 4-letter words
Hercules' dad, in a 1997 Disney movie
Possessed doll playable in Super Mario RPG
11) _____ Runner (Brøderbund computer game)
Golf ball stand
12) Team Fortress 2 developers
Polar bear voiced by Rob Schneider in a terrible animated movie
Undergarment measured by cups
13) Suffix for "million" or "billion"
One of twelve in AA
Synthetic fabric created by DuPont in 1941
14) Bambi's father, e.g.
Fruit or flightless bird from New Zealand
Arcade game where you play as a knight on an ostrich
15) Loathe entirely
7-time MLB All-Star Sammy
Symbolic light bulbs in comic strips
DOWN
1) Color that's halfway between blue and green
Unclothed art class models
Main character of the Pokémon anime who hasn't won a tournament in 20 years
2) Common play on fourth-down
Superhero show on The CW featuring Oliver Queen
Underperforming PlayStation handheld
3) Pin-up model Bettie
Act section
"I smell ____!"
4) What two of the three panelists on To Tell The Truth do
Norwegian band whose "Take On Me" video won 6 MTV VMAs
Assert with absolutely no proof
5) Judy Jetson's little brother
Type of comedy seen in Whose Line Is It Anyway?
6) Leap like a lurking lion
Pieces of furniture that computers sit upon
7) Jacuzzi
Wood-shaping tool
Uruguayan uncle
8) "Rock of _____" (Def Leppard hit)
Pearl Jam singer Vedder
Walter Cronkite once reported them
9) Toy Story 2 character who knocked Zurg down an elevator shaft
"You are likely to be eaten by a _____" (quote from Zork)
Place that's too perfect to exist
10) Genre for Judas Priest
One end of a pencil
11) One of the six simple machines
"Face with Tears of Joy" is the most popular one
12) Mono's successor
Pete's wife in Goof Troop
Shower curtain holder
13) Digital music format heard in many old computer games
One of two choices in some quiz questions
Cerulean or cobalt
14) Type of test with no writing
"Calling All Angels" band
Civil rights activist Parks
15) Precious stone collected by the answer directly below this one
Sheep-torching purple dragon of video game fame
Insects that reside in a farm
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 a version you can print out!
