PUZZLE #216: Snake Charmer 3

PUZZLE #216

SNAKE CHARMER 3

Enter the answers to each clue in the grid, starting in the correspondingly-numbered space and ending in the space before the next consecutive number. The chain of answer words will overlap itself, winding their way twice around the snake-shaped grid.

Once you've filled in the grid, unscramble the green squares to get the FINAL ANSWER: An eight-letter word

1) Action-adventure video game series starring Lara Croft: 2 wds.
2) Butterfinger candymaker
3) DEER _____ (road sign)
4) Figure skater Harding who placed 8th in the 1994 Winter Olympics
5) Horribly-named rock band who did "Crawling in the Dark" and "The Reason"
6) It's turned (or rather, activated via touchscreen) by Vanna White
7) Jonathan Harker's wife in Dracula
8) Burrito wrapper
9) Whitens one's underwear
10) Clue for someone stuck on a puzzle, maybe
11) Grouchy resident of Sesame Street
12) Italian scooter brand
13) Yoga greeting
14) Danny _____ (Nicktoon about a teen with ghostly powers)
15) 2008 time-twisting indie video game named after a woven hairstyle
16) Ready Player One author Cline
17) Gargoyles character who got his name from a Manhattan avenue
18) Web portal/search engine that turned 25 in January 2019
19) Cat-headed goddess of ancient Egypt
20) Short sock
21) With "The", 1984 movie about a cyborg sent to kill Sarah Connor
22) Fit for cultivation
23) A literal pain in the neck
24) Japanese religion with public shrines
25) Winter neck warmers
26) Van Halen hit that begins with the lyrics "Jump back, what's that sound?"
27) Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Pastis

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!