PUZZLE #232: Compound Crosswords 4

PUZZLE #232
COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 4

Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.

Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a title made up of a compound word.

CLUES
* 1982 arcade game where you control a sight organ wearing a hat (yes, really)
* Barenaked Ladies album with the #1 hit "One Week"
* Blue hedgehog loved by a pink hedgehog named Amy Rose
* Country that's home to Istanbul (not Constantinople)
* _____ 'Em Up (tongue-in-cheek action film from 2007)
* Fish that's a lot like a manta ray
* Fountain of _____
* "Informer" rapper
* Laid-back cheetah from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
* Liberals' wing
* Like someone who doesn't feel like working
* Mrs. Doubtfire actress Sally
* Multiply by two
* Not yours
* Place one's car in a handicapped space, maybe
* Public bathroom's hand dryer
* Successfully hit the tarmac
* "The quicker picker-upper", according to ads

Apologies in advance for the harder clues that I came up with. Anyways, 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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

ANSWERS: Mini-Marching Bands 3

The Powerpuff Girls, mentioned in the clue for TRIPLETS

Thirteen days have passed since "Mini-Marching Bands 3" was posted on this blog, and ten people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Eric Maddy ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solver comments!

PUZZLE #231: Chain Reaction: Extra Links 7

PUZZLE #231

CHAIN REACTION: EXTRA LINKS 7

For this puzzle, there are seven golden "links" that link together six two-word phrases when reading down. However, it's completely blank, save for some dashes that reveal how long each word is (four dashes translate to a four-letter word, for instance). To help you figure out these words, though, there are some extra silver links with words already in them which, when combined with the golden link to the left or right of it, make another two-word phrase. In the above example, the two-word phrases with silver links in them are "Chain Restaurants", "Gut Reaction", "Time Zone", and "Fruit Flies", so the final "golden chain" is "CHAIN - REACTION - TIME - FLIES".

Once you've completely filled in the chain, scramble the letters in the orange squares to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter word.

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!

ANSWERS: Line 'Em Up 7

3) Baby from The Loud House (or a flower on a frog's pad) = LILY
(click here for the full version, which also includes Lily aged up by ten years)

It's been almost two weeks since "Line 'Em Up 7" was posted on this blog, and ten people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Dan Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solver comments!

PUZZLE #230: Mini-Marching Bands 3

PUZZLE #230

MINI-MARCHING BANDS 3

The answers in this grid march both across the Rows and around the Bands. Each row contains two answers, clued in order. Their dividing point is for you to determine, except in Row 5, where the two answers are separated by a black square. The answers in each Band will be entered clockwise, starting at a lettered square (A-D) and ending in the space below that square. The dividing points in each band's string of words are also for you to determine. Each square will be used twice; once in a Row's word, and once in a Band's word.

Once you've filled everything in, read the letters on the diagonal dashed line for the FINAL ANSWER: A two-word movie title

ROWS
1) Fat, in French (HINT: Think of a New Orleans celebration)
    Word following "comic" or "Möbius"
2) Basketball player from San Antonio
    South Korean host of the 1988 Summer Olympics
3) _____ and Omega (2010 animated film about wolves)
    Boringly repetitive teaching technique
4) Fictional lawyer Perry
    Pretzel seasoning
5) India._____ ("Video" singer)
    Not that
6) With "The", Steve Martin film where he "was born a poor black child"
    Eragon actor Jeremy
7) Better Call Saul channel
    Sketched again
8) Rock genre of Anti-Flag and Against Me!
    Small thicket of trees
9) Black-tailed or white-tailed ungulate
    Actress Garbo (I would've used a griffon from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but that'd be too obscure, even for me!)

BANDS
A) Organic tennis court covering
    The Powerpuff Girls or Donald Duck's nephews, e.g.
    It's called a "jumper" in England
    Avarice
    Slumber party attire
B) Loose change holder
    Project's preliminary plan
    Vulcan who said "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"
    2 is one
C) American _____ (Triple Crown-winning horse)
    Gavel-pounding judge's shout
    Cincinnati Bengal-turned-sportscaster Collinsworth
D) Picketing one's workplace, perhaps: 2 wds.

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 two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

ANSWERS: Puzzle in the Round 2

My mom's favorite Homer Simpson quote, which I first brought up to her after getting a similar deal from a similarly average pizzeria (HOMER is one of this puzzle's answers, by the way)

Thirteen days have passed since "Puzzle in the Round 2" was posted on this blog, and a surprisingly high twelve people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Mom ***
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Debbie Benford ****
• Dan Simonds ****
• Eric Maddy ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solver comments!

PUZZLE #229: Line 'Em Up 7

PUZZLE #229

LINE 'EM UP 7

Place the answers to each numbered clue in the squares to the right of each corresponding number (a number in brackets following each clue will tell you how many letters are in each answer). Once you have the answers, align them properly in the grid so that going down, a two-word phrase will be spelled out by the two red columns in the grid's center.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of an '80s arcade game

1) Duran Duran album containing "Hungry Like the Wolf" [3]
2) Fuel tank filler [3]
3) Baby from The Loud House (or a flower on a frog's pad) [4]
4) What "siesta" means in Spanish [3]
5) "Li'l" resident of Dogpatch from an old comic strip [5]
6) Konami _____ (it goes up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A) [4]
7) Fennec fox feet [4]

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!

ANSWERS: Diagramless Crossword 3

15-Across: Video game archaeologist Croft = LARA

"Diagramless Crossword 3" was posted on this blog thirteen days ago, and eight people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Stephen Staver ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom **
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Joe Bernard ****

Now head below the break for the answers!