PUZZLE #227
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 3
Diagramless crosswords are solved by using the clues and their numbers to fill in the answers as well as the black squares. When completely filled in, the black squares in the grid will have diagonal symmetry, meaning that they'll look the same when rotated upside-down. As a help, the first number has already been placed in the grid.
Once everything's filled in, the two longest across answers will spell out the name of two movies. The FINAL ANSWER is the male actor who appeared in both films.
ACROSS
1) Air_____ (lodging website)
4) Dr. Evil's son in the Austin Powers movies
9) Words that precede "saw Elba" in a palindrome: 2 wds.
10) Celebrated in historic lore
12) Firing, as from a job (hopefully, hatchets aren't involved!)
13) Professor X’s mutant-finding device in X-Men
14) What Clearasil treats
15) Video game archaeologist Croft
16) 1/10,000,000th of a joule
17) MOVIE #1: ? wds.
20) Didi's purple-haired husband from Rugrats
21) Soak up like a paper towel
22) Fortnite developer
24) The Favourite actress Stone
27) "The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum", according to ads
31) Italian philosopher Umberto
33) MOVIE #2: ? wds.
36) Enjoyed a smorgasbord
37) Road to _____ (Ramones album)
38) Still-life pitcher
39) Vague feeling of general discomfort
41) Home of Lightning and Buccaneers
42) Source of a licorice-like flavoring
43) Tweak levels you've made in Super Mario Maker, say
44) Cartoon duck who has nieces named April, May, and June
45) Greek goddess of the night
DOWN
1) Introduce, as a subject: 2 wds.
2) "Buffalo Stance" singer Cherry
3) Huge, like a "dipper" in the sky
4) Mono's successor
5) Habitat for at least 25% of all marine species: 2 wds.
6) Bauxite or azurite
7) The highest region on Earth
8) Gilliam or Jones from Monty Python
9) _____bike (NES motorcycling game)
10) Oodles and oodles
11) Dalmatian or dachshund
12) They're often heard after "oohs"
15) Women's _____ (what feminism was called in the 1970s)
18) Automobile assembly plants
19) Company that created the chess-playing computer Deep Blue
23) Suffix that means "sorta"
25) Cat food brand with a catchy jingle made up of kitty sounds: 2 wds.
26) Come to terms with
28) MMA fighter-turned-WWE wrestler Ronda
29) "Yeah, none of that was true": 2 wds.
30) The Secret of NIMH director Bluth
32) Gumbo vegetable seen too often in crosswords
33) Place to buy lemonade from kids
34) Monsters, Inc. receptionist with snaky hair
35) Word before "set, GO!"
36) Reddit Q&A session, for short
40) _____ Lay Dying (heavy metal band): 2 wds.
41) Alexander Hamilton's bill
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 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: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!
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