PUZZLE #245
LUCKY SEVENS 8
Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.
Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word
ROWS
i) Laila with a 24-0 boxing record
ii) Euphonium's larger cousin
iii) Peanuts character who believes in the Great Pumpkin
iv) What you shouldn't burn at both ends
v) Jellyfishes named after a Gorgon
vi) An _____ and a Gentleman
vii) Making sounds like a giant toy hammer
viii) Classic TV hosts Linkletter and Fleming
ix) The Golden Girls actress McClanahan
x) CD that's too short to be a proper album
xi) Initial ___ (anime about street racing)
SEVENS
1) Multiplied by itself
2) Provide something great: 2 wds.
3) Help settle disputes
4) NHL team based in Vancouver
5) Buckingham who sang "Holiday Road" for National Lampoon's Vacation
6) _____ Bells (Mike Oldfield album)
7) Assumed names
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!
