PUZZLE #241
SLOT MACHINE 3
In this Slot Machine, the Row answers are entered normally, from left to right in the order of the clues given. The Tumbler answers going down are entered in the same way, but all of the Tumblers have been "spun", meaning that the Tumblers' answers can start in any row and continue downwards. When a set of Tumbler answers hit the bottom of the grid, it continues at the start of the same column that it started in. There's also a "Jackpot Answer" that is comprised of the first letters of the first answer of each Tumbler. In the example above, the Rows spell out INN, TIE, and WOW, while the Tumblers spell out WIT, ION, and NEW, and the first letter of each Tumbler spell out WIN.
This week's FINAL ANSWER is the answer to the Jackpot.
JACKPOT
• A movie that Discovery Channel probably won't air this Shark Week: ? wds.
ROWS
1) Sweeties, in hip-hop slang
People who live a clothes-free lifestyle
2) Fairy king from A Midsummer Night's Dream
It Takes Two actress Mary-Kate or Ashley
3) "_____ Paradise" (the love theme from Footloose)
Mild yellow cheese from the Netherlands
4) Use up
Lowest high tide
5) Norway's most populated city
Hereditary rulers
6) Fantasia conductor Stokowski
Frozen beverage with a polar bear mascot
7) Richard who played The Wiz in The Wiz
The smallest of Jupiter's four Galilean moons
8) Video game series about a hired assassin named Agent 47
The only country with a five-sided flag
9) Schoolteacher Mr. Crane who crossed paths with the Headless Horseman
One of Delphi's Muses of the lyre (Anagram of TEEN)
10) Desperate for cash
It's called by a Wheel of Fortune contestant after they spin
11) 1998 first-person shooter whose name is a synonym for "fictitious"
The "Girl in the Flower Dress" from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
TUMBLERS
1) False killer whale or bottlenose, e.g.
Yume Nikki character with a creepy black-and-white face (HINT: Delete the last letter from a WWII sub)
2) Authorizes
First name of Cartman from South Park
3) Put on the payroll
"_____ Was a Crooked Man" (nursery rhyme)
4) Hair gels used by 1950s greasers
Caramel-filled candy sold by Hershey's in the US
5) Extremely close way to win: 3 wds.
_____ the Explorer: Journey to the Purple Planet (video game for preschoolers)
6) Surname of a VeggieTales character with a gold tooth
Advil alternative
7) Canine superhero who frequently rescues Sweet Polly Purebred
Word following "loose" or "tight"
8) Inevitably involve
Sign that's lit up to let DJs know when they're live: 2 wds.
9) Sharpshooter's magnifier
Paper that wipes up snot
10) Start of an online romance, possibly: Hyph.
Inventor's protection that lasts 20 years
11) "It'll be _____!" ("Easy-peasy!"): 2 wds.
Undercoating
Apologies in advance for some of the tougher than usual clues. Anyway, 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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