Monday, February 19, 2018

PUZZLE #166: Anagram Magic Square 3: Subtracting & Scrambling

PUZZLE #166
ANAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE 3: SUBTRACTING & SCRAMBLING

The 6-letter word in each box is an anagram to the answer to each of the clues below.... almost. You see, in this puzzle, all of the answers are five letters long, so remove an extra letter from each 6-letter word to get each answer. Put the number of each corresponding clue into the small box below the initial word and write down the anagram on the dash directly below that. The numbers in each row and column will add up to 65.

Once you're done with the puzzle, the subtracted letter of each answer, in numerical clue order, will spell out a clue; the FINAL ANSWER is the title hinted at by the clue.


1) Animal on the Kansas State Quarter
2) In dire need of a nap
3) Renée Zellweger's role in Chicago
4) Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
5) Freckle Juice author Judy
6) The "M" in AMAs
7) Pirate treasure container
8) Numbered highway
9) Freighter ship's load
10) Fail to breathe underwater?
11) Splatoon 2 character who's a part of the pop duo Off The Hook alongside Marina
12) Two-door car
13) Lucius Malfoy's son
14) The _____ Spoonful ("Summer in the City" band)
15) Eliza's father in The Wild Thornberrys
16) Two and a Half Men actor Jon
17) Exemplary, as a citizen
18) The Munsters' werewolf son
19) Chuck Woolery game show where contestants spell 5-letter words
20) Light beam whose name is an acronym
21) _____ Dogg Presents The Joker's Wild
22) Arbor Day month
23) Radiohead hit with the lyrics "I wish I was special"
24) _____ Attraction (1987 Best Picture nominee)
25) Delaware's capital

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!

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