PUZZLE #315: Slide Show: Double Feature 2

PUZZLE #315

SLIDE SHOW: DOUBLE FEATURE 2

In each of the two puzzles below, slide the 18 letters surrounding each grid into the empty squares so that four words are made reading across and five words are formed reading down. Letters above and below the grids slide vertically to any position without changing columns, and letters to the left and right slide horizontally without changing rows. All of the exterior letters are used only once, and as a help, each grid has two letters already placed inside.

Once both grids have been filled in, pick out one word from each and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: the two-word name of a musical television show

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Brick By Brick 8

It's been close to two weeks since "Brick By Brick 8" was posted on this blog, and a whopping thirteen people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Brittany Trofimovich ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****
• Dan Simonds ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #314: Link-Letters 9

PUZZLE #314

LINK-LETTERS 9

There are two clues for each numbered row. The answers to each row's first clue go in the squares to the left of the first black bar in each correspondingly numbered row in the puzzle's grid, and the answers to the second clue go into the squares to the right of the second black bar. Then a single letter (the "Link-Letter") goes in the square in the middle to complete a single word that reads all the way across. For example, if the two words are CON and ACT, you can put a "T" between them to get CONTACT.

Once you've filled out all eight rows, the central letters will spell out two words reading down. Add a letter between those two words in the red square to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a 1980s computer game

1) _____ Rogers in the 25th Century

    Miami team that Shaquille O'Neal played for

2) Fester from The Addams Family, e.g.

    Actor Beatty who's not related to Warren Beatty

3) Sandwich made with pita bread

    Handles hard times

4) Gun a motor

    Tony-winning musical with the song "Seasons of Love"

5) When doubled, a #1 hit by the Archies

    Big lummox

6) Boat's bottom

    Jungle Book bear who later starred in TaleSpin

7) It's directly to the right of the "M" key on a QWERTY keyboard

    Leaping mammal on a yellow "XING" sign

8) Minute to _____ It (NBC/GSN game show)

    Conclusive evidence in court

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Snake Charmer 5

Thirteen days have gone by since "Snake Charmer 5" was posted onto this blog, and twelve people since then have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****

There aren't any solver's comments this week, but you can still head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #313: Brick By Brick 8

PUZZLE #313

BRICK BY BRICK 8

Place the 2x3 bricks into the grid below so that a crossword puzzle with rotational symmetry is formed. Each of the Across and Down clues hint at answers that appear in that row or column, all of which are in order. Be careful with the rows marked with a 7, 8, and 9, as the bricks that are placed in those rows will be split in half by a blue line, which you can see in the diagram above. Also, the letters that go in the blue line's squares will complete one answer in every Down column, though you'll have to figure out what those letters are.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of a popular song from the 1970s

ACROSS

1) "Here I come to _____ the day!" (quote from Mighty Mouse)

    Monopoly space between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place

    Clickable desktop image

2) Rome's largest fountain

    Long bone next to the radius

    Bull-ish lawnmower brand

3) Milky white heron

    "God of Mischief" portrayed by Tom Hiddleston

    Once more from the top

4) Newspaper with 130 Pulitzer Prizes: Abbr.

    Whirl around, like Crash Bandicoot

    Baby beluga

5) Symbol at the start of a music staff

    "High" shoe type

    Brandish a big blade

6) White shape on a soccer ball

    Opened a DVD player's tray

7) TV channel originally known as PAX

    In a bygone time

    Tetley beverage

8) THE FINAL ANSWER

9) Monkey that Genie turned into an elephant in Aladdin (1992)

    Honey _____ Cheerios

    Saucer in the sky, supposedly

10) TV-14 and PG-13, for two

      Pseudoscience that wanted to turn copper into gold

11) Home of Japan's largest manga museum

      Hawaii's state dance

      Layered cookie that once had a Caramel Apple flavor

12) Initials on an invitation

      Owned by that lady

      Trashy tabloid

13) Soft and white French cheese

      Large film format that won a Technical Oscar in 1997

      A Scanner Darkly star Reeves

14) Lunch or brunch, e.g.

      Dwayne Johnson's role in Moana

      Make a few changes

15) Star Fox 64 character who's a gray howling canine

      People seen on C-SPAN, for short

      Mario _____ Tour (mobile game)

DOWN

1) Malodorous odor

    Are You Afraid of the _____? ('90s Nickelodeon show)

    Parent company of Rolls-Royce

2) Diamond-shaped pattern on some socks

    Auction site that owns StubHub

    Old car company from the founder of Oldsmobile

3) Polygon's corner

    Video game stage that teaches you how to play it

4) WALL-E's love

    County event with a livestock show

    Last word of an FDR quote regarding fear

5) Part of FWIW or TGIF

    Female friend of Gumby with blonde hair and shapeshifting abilities

    Mo. when Daylight Saving Time ends in America

6) Calling on a cell

    _____ My Ride (2000s reality show hosted by Xzibit)

7) Lemur King from the Madagascar series

    Derriere

    Tiny and adorable Demon Lord from Endro! (or a former Chinese chairman)

8) Heart song that spent three weeks at #1

    Word following "pop" or "op"

    Moving company with orange and white trucks

9) Cartoonist's liquid

    Building block company that released Super Mario sets in 2020

    The Handmaid's Tale actress Bledel

10) Not of the clergy

      Jokey and silly

11) Stupefied state

      Fast food chain serving Popcorn Nuggets

      Punk subgenre performed by Less Than Jake and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

12) Type of tilted text

      Silver salmon

      Antlered animal on Idaho's state flag

13) Colored bits that rain on $100,000 winners of Wheel of Fortune

      List of slip-ups

14) Minecraft's mineral resource

      Internet slang also known as "1337"

      Not as nice

15) _____ Hear This (surreal Looney Tunes short)

      June 6, 1944

      Chobani product

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: 5-Star Stumper 5

It's been almost two weeks since my fifth "5-Star Stumper" puzzle was posted on this blog, and twelve people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Adam Weaver ****

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

PUZZLE #312: Snake Charmer 5

PUZZLE #312

SNAKE CHARMER 5

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) Tea variety whose name translates to "black dragon"

2) "The Way It Is" singer Bruce

3) Witness's statements that can be cross-examined in the Ace Attorney games

4) Breakfast of Champions author Kurt

5) Afternoon nap in Acapulco

6) Victorious

7) Eritrea's capital

8) Female role found in both Othello and The Taming of the Shrew

9) Ice down again

10) Wrinkly organ seen in the box art for Cranium

11) Incarcerated Let It Be producer Phil

12) The Price is Right game that involves swapping numbered blocks to complete five prices

13) Baseball team from the University of Texas at Austin

14) 8-bit units

15) _____ & Pumbaa ('90s Disney cartoon)

16) Actress Strahovski of NBC's Chuck

17) The most daring

18) Skylit lobby

19) Cult classic horror film with an eerie undertaker known only as "The Tall Man"

20) Horse breed that originated in the Middle East

21) Without a worry in the world

22) On Beyond _____! (Dr. Seuss book about adding more letters to the alphabet)

23) Gadget and Clouseau, for two

24) With "The", video game trilogy (later a Netflix series) starring a monster slayer named Geralt

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: All Four One

It's been close to two weeks since a new format in the form of "All Four One" premiered on this blog, and twelve people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Dan Simonds **

Now head below the break for the answers as well as several solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #311: 5-Star Stumper 5

PUZZLE #311

5-STAR STUMPER 5

The answer to each numbered pair of clues goes in the 10 spaces surrounding each correspondingly numbered star in the grid. The first answer of each set starts in the appropriately numbered space (with the arrow in the same space telling you which direction to go), and the second answer follows immediately after. Meanwhile, the answers that go in the red stripe surrounding the grid are clued in order, and even though it's up to you to determine where the chain of answers begins, we can tell you that the red stripe's answers go clockwise.

Once the entire grid has been filled in, reading the white spaces from left to right and top to bottom will reveal this week's FINAL ANSWER: A former Supreme Court justice

STARS
1) Horatio known for his "rags-to-riches" stories

    "_____ Right Along" (song from The Muppet Movie)

2) Angry argument

    R&B singer whose 2000 album Fear of Flying went platinum

3) The Loud House character who often has sunglasses on her head (anagram of NEIL)

    Tilex target

4) Oysters' outputs

    Use a scythe in a wheat field, say

5) Only zodiac sign depicting an inanimate object

    Setting for much of The Shining

RED STRIPE

• "Useless goddess" from KonoSuba (EASIER CLUE: Blue-green color)

• Pop up again

• Sent an invoice to

• Situated at a sensory threshold

• Like hands in desperate need of hand sanitizer, perhaps

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Headless Words 2

Thirteen days have gone by since I've posted my second "Headless Words" puzzle on this blog, and an impressive twelve people have successfully solved it since then, and you can see them all in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Mom ****
• Per Lundberg ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #310: All Four One

PUZZLE #310

ALL FOUR ONE

There are four mostly-empty 4x4 crossword grids, as well as four sets of eight clues. Arrange the answers from each set of clues into a grid where they can all properly fit, so that every grid has four words reading down and four words reading across. After that, transfer the completed grids into the four sections of the larger diagram beneath them so that four 8-letter words are formed reading across the top and bottom, and down the left and right sides.

Once everything is correctly filled in, take two of the newly-formed 8-letter words to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a movie from the early 1980s

SET #1

• Annoying emails with often questionable grammar

• Between "half" and "all"

• Country directly beneath Ecuador

• Dynamic prefix

• Miffs

• Pixie powder

• "That's what she _____!" (repeated line in NBC's The Office)

• Torah scrolls are kept in them

SET #2

• Annual 500-mile race, for short

• Berlin Airlift photographer Henry (Anagram of SIRE)

• Easter egg colorer

• Felt repentant

• German "a"

• Ms. Krabappel who used to teach Bart Simpson

• One of 120 stellar collectibles in Super Mario 64

• The last letter in "CPU"

SET #3

• Brief note from the boss

• Growth in a gross fish tank

• Imprint on glass

• Measures of resistance represented by omegas

• Only US state with a three-word capital

• Pretty much has to

• What "U Can't Touch", according to MC Hammer

• _____ Wowee (rhyming "Match-3" game with Hawaiian imagery)

SET #4

• Car's scar

• _____Enders (long-running BBC soap)

• Like ripened cheddar

• Need some Advil or Aleve, perhaps

• "Rock of Ages," e.g. (the Christian one, not the one by Def Leppard)

• The Clothed Maja painter

• They make up over half of all trees in NYC's Central Park

• Tom Cruise's role in Days of Thunder

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Zigzagnut 6

It's been roughly two weeks since "Zigzagnut 6" was posted onto this blog, and twelve people have correctly solved it since then, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #309: Headless Words 2

PUZZLE #309

HEADLESS WORDS 2

Uh-oh! All of these words have lost their heads, and it's up to you to reattach them! First, write down the answers to the "Headless Clues" (listed in no particular order) into each white right-hand box. Then, write down one OR two letters into each gray left-hand box so that these letters, when added in front of each word, form the answer to one of the "Whole Clues" below (also listed in random order).

Once you've filled everything in, rearrange the completed words so that the letters in the gray boxes, reading down, spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a type of person

HEADLESS CLUES

• Before the due date

• Caracal or cougar, e.g.

• Insult comedian Don who voiced Mr. Potato Head

• Perfume's pleasant aroma

• _____ the Woods (Tony-winning musical)

• Yelled "De-fense! De-fense!" repeatedly, say

WHOLE CLUES

• "50:50" on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, for one

• Actor Zachary who played Sylar on Heroes (2006-10)

• Disney film about an animated princess transported to live-action New York

• Not quite, but almost

• Slowly drips down

• The first computer game that lets you fly with "six degrees of freedom" (EASIER CLUE: Downward path)

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Anagram Chambers 8

It's been almost two weeks since "Anagram Chambers 8" was posted onto this blog, and nine people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #308: Zigzagnut 6

PUZZLE #308

ZIGZAGNUT 6

The numbered clues are for the zigzags, which work their way down through the diagram in the outlined areas. The "Rows" clues are for the answers, two per row, to be entered straight across each row in the diagram, but to make things harder, you don't know which specific rows the answers will go into! (Though the answers in the rows themselves are in the correct order)

This week's FINAL ANSWER consists of the two numbered answers with no clues (#5 & #17) that combine to make up a two-word phrase

ROWS (in random order; each contains two answers)

• Saw an entire season of Stranger Things all at once, say

  Join the Navy

• Summer month when National S'more Day is celebrated

  Word following "camp" and "web"

• International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Arthur

  "_____ Day" (Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men song that spent 16 weeks at #1): 2 wds.

• Lacking illumination

  Modern religion also known as Pagan Witchcraft

• Good witch from Oz who travels via bubble

  1989-2020 reality show with a reggae theme song

• Military leader of feudal Japan

  Very, in Paris

• Round and pink Nintendo character

  _____ Yello (soft drink)

• Star Trek: The Next Generation alien race with big ears and bigger greediness

  FaceTime alternative from Microsoft

• Matches a poker bet

  Requests in restaurants

• Butcher's chopper

  Actress Mila who was in Aerosmith's music video for "Jaded"

• Act like a magnet

  [This misspelling was in the original text]

ZIGZAGS

1) Actively avoid

2) Eyeballing rudely

3) Removes a tie closing a bread bag, say

4) Like an intricate puzzle

5) THE FIRST HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

6) Type of mattress stuffed with goose plumage

7) "Brick-and-mortar store" or "broadcast television", e.g.

8) WNBA team from Las Vegas

9) O.G. Original Gangster rapper: Hyph.

10) Posing a question

11) "Our team got beat, badly": 2 wds.

12) What "..." is known as

13) Not the Minors, in baseball: 2 wds.

14) Unexpected meetings, like those of the Third Kind

15) Any shark on Shark Tank who agrees to help a company out, perhaps

16) Tales from the _____ ('80s anthology series created by George A. Romero)

17) THE SECOND HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Squeezed in the Middle 16

It's been thirteen days since the final puzzle for Halloween Month II (which was my second attempt at a Double Decker-ified "Squeezed in the Middle" puzzle) was posted on this blog, and ten people have successfully solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Mom ****

Now head below the break for the answers and a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #307: Anagram Chambers 8

PUZZLE #307

ANAGRAM CHAMBERS 8

This next puzzle is one that should be familiar to long-time solvers, as I've been making these since the number of puzzles I've made was only in the single digits. However, I think this particular puzzle type has just set the record for the most revisions I've made to it. First, the clues were inside the yellow rectangles, then I moved the clues to their own separate areas and labelled each now-empty chamber (first with numbers, then with lowercase letters), and finally, I've gotten rid of these labels altogether after my test-solver pointed out "why are the chambers labeled a-g if we are going to rearrange them?" So now that the chambers' labels are gone, the directions have been altered to reflect this, so go ahead and read 'em:

For this puzzle, there are several dark-green "chambers" with yellow rectangles and light green squares in them. For each chamber, you take a word in the first yellow rectangle as hinted at by the clue, add a letter from the light green square, and scramble them to get a word in the second yellow rectangle, then you repeat the process to get the word in the third yellow rectangle. Unfortunately, none of the chambers are labeled, and all seven sets of clues are in no particular order, so you have to figure out which set of answers go to which proper chamber so the columns of light green squares will both spell out words reading vertically.

Once all of the chambers are in the correct order, the light green squares will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a two-word phrase

• ["For _____ About to Rock (We Salute You)" (AC/DC song)] + _ = [Red Monopoly pieces] + _ = [Despises entirely]

• [Light beam used in some welding] + _ = [Birth country of KISS bassist Gene Simmons] + _ = [Makes a comeback after trailing in touchdowns]

• [Dead or _____ (fighting video game series)] + _ = [Practical, as a plan] + _ = [Cockle, clam, or scallop]

• [Jada Pinkett Smith's role in The Matrix Reloaded] + _ = [Plane manufacturer whose 737 MAX model was grounded in 2019] + _ = [Following orders]

• [It can cause the loss of a cur's fur] + _ = [Cypher machine that Alan Turing helped decode] + _ = [Picture in one's mind]

• [Dawson's Creek actress Holmes] + _ = [Quantity of food consumed] + _ = [What rhino horns are made up of]

• [Someone who hasn't quite hit puberty yet] + _ = [Most recent] + _ = [Rawhide genre]

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Compound Crosswords 6

It's been close to two weeks since "Compound Crosswords 6" was posted on this blog, and twelve people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano *
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Elliott Frankfother ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #306: Squeezed in the Middle 16: Double Decker Word Sandwiches Return

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #306

SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 16: DOUBLE DECKER WORD SANDWICHES RETURN

It's the final puzzle for Halloween Month II, and not only is the puzzle that I've planned one that's more-or-less become my signature creation, it's also a variant of it that's figuratively returned from the dead, as I haven't done one of this specific type since Puzzle #150, which just happened to be published on Halloween's Eve three years ago! Now, while the previous "Double Decker" I've created failed to have a Halloween theme despite its timing, I didn't make the same mistake this time, so read on for directions on how to solve it!

It's time to make some Double Decker Word Sandwiches! Normal rules to "Squeezed in the Middle" apply, but with a twist. First, enter the "Centers" in the corresponding numbered spaces. Then, enter two "Wholes" in each row, each one using the letters in one white space and the two adjacent brown spaces. All of the brown squares have only one letter each in them, and the brown spaces in the center column will be shared by two "Wholes".

Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: A three-word title of a horror-comedy film.

CENTERS

1) Plastic thingamabob on a shoelace tip

2) The House with a Clock in Its Walls director Roth

3) Word between "veni" and "vici"

4) Kitchen flooring option, for short

5) Opposite of post-

6) Good Times star Esther

7) Cuatro − uno

8) Japanese hot spring

9) Funny or _____ (comedy website co-founded by Will Ferrell)

10) Angsty rock genre of Hawthorn Heights

11) Female alien from the Mass Effect trilogy who wears a mask (ALTERNATE CLUE: Anklebones)

12) Cosmic Crisp or Honeycrisp

WHOLES

* And others, in bibliographies: 2 wds. (HINT: This masculine plural ends with two of the same vowel)

* "Au revoir!" alternative

* Baby versions of America's national bird

* Deliberately ticked off a website's users for the lulz, say

* Emphasize a syllable

* Foe of Green Lantern who got his name when he was compared to an ancient artifact

* Fruity disc-shaped candy packaged in a tube

* Marianne's older sister in Sense and Sensibility

* Permission, especially for making love

* Spotted, like some horses

* Swab the deck again

* Tech company that creates the GeForce graphics processor

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Dial Tunes 2

It's been roughly two weeks since "Dial Tunes 2" was posted onto this blog, and thirteen people have solved it since then, as you can see in the following list:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Izak Bulten ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Mom ****
• Laura-Leigh Mohr ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***

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

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #305: Compound Crosswords 6

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #305

COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 6

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: the title of a horror TV series made up of a compound word.

CLUES
* 2013 Disney movie with the quote "You can't marry a man you just met"

* "Borrow" a song snippet to use in one's own song

* Disposable hanky

* Flammable stick that you shouldn't play with

* It beats rock, but loses to scissors

* Mort who created Beetle Bailey

* Not "rotten", on Rotten Tomatoes

* Number of members in a "Fantastic" Marvel superhero group

* Pinion's partner

* Polishing brand whose slogan is "Keeping your furniture clean and beautiful"

* Retired Monopoly token with a handle

* Rodeo _____ (1990 game show inspired by a street in Beverly Hills)

* Short piece of video

* Stage musical that the hit song "One Night in Bangkok" came from

* _____ Stone Creamery

* Surname of Scary, Sporty, and Posh

* Uncool shape?

* With "The", critically-acclaimed HBO crime drama set in Baltimore

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Gryptics 4

The fourth pair of Gryptics that I've made two weeks ago was my most successful one yet, as an impressive fourteen people have solved it since its original posting, all of whom are listed below:

• M. Sean Molley ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Pavel Curtis ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Morgan Chase ****
• Izak Bulten ****
• Debbie Benford ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a few solvers' comments!

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #304: Dial Tunes 2

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #304

DIAL TUNES 2

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Occasional vowel [↕]

2) The final _____ in the coffin [↓]

3) It's typed out in Microsoft Notepad [↑]

4) Still, like seas [↓]

5) Type of table containing data that defines the appearance of a TrueType font's characters (Alright, it's a homonym for GLYPH) [↑]

6) _____ of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy novel) [↓]

7) The Bee Gees or the Beastie Boys, e.g. (but not the Beatles) [↓]

8) "Stronghold" made of snow [↓]

9) Bills with Thomas Jefferson on them [↑]

10) Runs for fun and fitness [↑]

11) Mobster's goon [↓]

12) Out of the womb [↓]

13) Bottommost face button on a PlayStation controller [↕]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Honeycomb 2

Thirteen days have passed since "Honeycomb 2" was posted onto this blog, and thirteen is also the number of people who have solved it since then, as you can see in the following list:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Izak Bulten ****
• Mom ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Morgan Chase ****
• Tyler Hinman ****

I don't have any solvers' comments to provide this time around, but you can still view the answers below the break as always!

HALLOWEEN MONTH II! PUZZLE #303: Gryptics 4

HALLOWEEN MONTH II!

PUZZLE #303

GRYPTICS 4

Yup, you read that right! Not only is this October another theme month, but it's my first ever sequel to a theme month! And just like the Halloween Month from exactly five years ago, the common link will be the same: All of the FINAL ANSWERS this month will have something to do with the horror genre! And surprisingly, not a single one of them is a video game of some sort (so you won't get answers like Days Gone or anything like that)! So with that introduction out of the way, I'm gonna paraphrase Goosebumps and say "Solvers beware, you're in for a scare!"

Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).

Once you're done, take a word from the first grid and a word from the second grid and pair them up to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a horror novel

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Family Reunions 4

It's been thirteen days since "Family Reunions 4" was posted on this blog, and I suppose revealing the category ahead of time was the right move, as an impressive fourteen people have successfully solved it, all of whom can be seen in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Cindy Weatherman ****
• Leslie Yonce ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• David Cole ****
• Morgan Chase ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***

As a reminder, the people colored in orange all support me on Patreon. Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #302: Honeycomb 2

PUZZLE #302

HONEYCOMB 2

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter noun

1) Makeup applied with a puff

2) Color of Waluigi's cap

3) Gentle breeze near the end of a dictionary

4) Conspiracy _____

5) Polished a Porsche, perhaps

6) Word following "stick" or "father"

7) Madonna song that samples ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)": 2 wds.

8) First name of a nursery rhyme egg found in Through the Looking-Glass

9) Sorry situation

10) Kids' welfare org. with Halloween donation boxes

11) Designer of a famed French tower

12) Roman _____ (current WWE Universal Champion)

13) "Cars" singer Gary and his daughters

14) Bit of Baskin-Robbins ice cream in a tiny spoon, say

15) Made water so hot, it bubbled over

16) Insect with a 17-year life cycle

17) King whose album Tapestry obtained Diamond status

18) Secret groom

19) All episodes of Gunsmoke, nowadays

20) Egyptian god who leads souls to the afterlife

21) Increased a poker bet

22) First name of "Mad Dog" Tannen from Back to the Future Part III

23) Half of a circle's diameter

24) _____ My Mom Will Shoot (film that Sylvester Stallone regrets making): 2 wds.

25) Don Carlos and Don Giovanni, for two

26) Resident of Oranjestad

27) White mouse from The Rescuers Down Under voiced by Eva Gabor

28) All lined up: 3 wds.

29) Secondhand apartment rental

30) Definitely gonna: 2 wds.

31) Hostile attitude

32) Culpeo or coyote

33) Crustaceous claw

34) Monarchs and measuring sticks

35) Thigh bones

36) Evoke a forgotten memory

37) The Wrestler director Aronofsky

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Meta-Crossword 7: He Wears Many Hats

Well, it looks like turning my 300th puzzle into a meta-crossword certainly paid off, as a whopping sixteen people successfully figured it out since it was posted here two weeks ago! There's a bunch of them new to this blog, too, and they all came here because one of the users at the Xword Muggles forums stumbled onto this puzzle and linked to it over there, so a big thanks to all the solvers who found it via that forum! Now then, let's look at that large list of solvers!

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Yossi Fendel ****
• Lynn Sweeney *
• Chris Kochmanski ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Richard Basuk ****
• David Plass ****
• David Cole ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Alex Sisti ****
• Morgan Chase ****
• Laura-Leigh Mohr ****

Now if you just happen to still be stumped on this meta-crossword, head below the break for the answers, as well as a few solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #301: Family Reunions 4

PUZZLE #301

FAMILY REUNIONS 4

For this puzzle, just change the group of 10 words below into a "family" of different words (that is, words or proper names that all have something in common) by dropping one letter from each word and then rearranging the remaining letters. For example, if three of the initial entries are SMEAR, HATRED, and TURBANS, you could drop the E from SMEAR to get MARS, drop the D from HATRED to get EARTH, and drop the B from TURBANS to get SATURN, all in the category "Planets". As an additional help, the category for the new words will also be listed on top (unlike previous versions of this puzzle).

Once you're done, the letters that have been deleted from each word will unscramble to spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: a ten-letter word that also fits the category

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Moving Staircases 10

It's been close to two weeks since "Moving Staircases 10" was posted on this blog, and ten people since then have successfully solved it, and you can see all of them in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****
• Morgan Chase ****

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

PUZZLE #300: Meta-Crossword 7: "He Wears Many Hats"

PUZZLE #300

META-CROSSWORD 7: "HE WEARS MANY HATS"

It's my 300th puzzle!! And to celebrate, I decided to create a meta-crossword, which I haven't done since..... well, my last milestone puzzle! As you may already know, meta-crosswords are like normal crosswords, except they have a Bonus Puzzle for you to solve once you fill out the grid. I won't tell you how to get the Bonus Puzzle's FINAL ANSWER, as the techniques in getting them vary with each meta-crossword, so you pretty much have to figure it out yourself.

The FINAL ANSWER to the Bonus Puzzle is someone with a well-known piece of headwear.

If, for whatever reason, the embedded interactive crossword isn't showing up above, you can go to the link at http://crossword.info/Redhead64/He_Wears_Many_Hats and solve it there. Anyway, 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 link to a .PDF version which you can download and print out!

ANSWERS: Sunburst 2

My 300th puzzle is coming up tomorrow! But before we get around to that, I should probably reveal the eleven people who solved my second "Sunburst" puzzle that was published about two weeks ago:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ***
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a few solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #299: Moving Staircases 10

PUZZLE #299

MOVING STAIRCASES 10

The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.

Once you've completely filled out the grid, the FINAL ANSWER (the name of a top ten hit song from the 1980s) will be hidden inside it; one of the words is hidden horizontally (is it a Short or a Long? that's up to you to find out!), while the other is hidden vertically.

SHORTS
* Crimes of fiery passion?

* Elaborately ornate

* Figure It Out host Sanders

* Real name of Sailor Moon, in the original English dub (or Venus Williams' sister)

* Someone who graffitis bathroom walls, say

* "We're not lost, we're just taking the _____ route!"

* Word following "twist" or "cliffhanger"

LONGS

* 2010s political thriller starring Kerry Washington

* _____ and Old Lace (Cary Grant film based on a play)

* Gatorland's state

* More tranquil

* Order to show up in court

* Type of machine stocked with soda bottles

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Slot Machine 4

My fourth "Slot Machine" puzzle from thirteen days ago was a pain to create, and since I believed the final result was harder than usual, I expected less solvers as a result. However, as you can tell by the following list of eleven solvers, that turned out to not be the case:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ***
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ***
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***

Congratulations on solving this puzzle, everyone! Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #298: Sunburst 2

PUZZLE #298

SUNBURST 2

First, solve each 4-letter word listed in the first set of clues, then rearrange them and attach an extra letter to its end (which will be up to you to determine) to form a 5-letter word that matches one of the answers listed in the second clue set. For example, if an answer is ATOP, scramble those letters, add another letter to the end, and form the 5-letter word TOPAZ. Next, place each resulting 5-letter word into the Sunburst at their corresponding numbers, starting at the outermost tile and reading inwards. Since all the 5-letter words have the exact same final letter, make sure that each 5-letter word ends in the center of the grid.

Once the grid has been filled in, the outermost ring of the Sunburst, when read clockwise from 1 to 18, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a Golden Raspberry Award-"winning" movie

4-LETTER WORDS
1) Not false

2) _____ fide (the real deal)

3) Three of clubs, e.g.

4) Time Transfixed painter Magritte

5) Vegetable that can be popped

6) Irritating insect with a silent letter

7) Win third place at the Belmont Stakes

8) Blueberry and banana cream, for two

9) Manufacturer of unsuccessful Road Runner traps

10) Type of helmet worn by a safari guide

11) Highest digit in a normal sudoku grid

12) Dry as a dusty desert

13) Cheshire Cat's facial expression

14) Greeting to a matey

15) Six years, for a senator

16) St. John's _____ (flowering plant)

17) The Ninja Turtles only have two of these on each foot

18) Shanghai Noon star Jackie

5-LETTER WORDS

* Beatles member who wrote and sang "Octopus's Garden"

* "_____ Be Square" (Huey Lewis and the News song): 2 wds.

* Bit part for a big star

* Company that created Mr. Microphone

* Hot tortilla chip covered with cheese

* In _____ (1993 Nirvana album)

* "In what way?": 2 wds.

* Late film composer Morricone

* Letter after "Sierra" in the NATO phonetic alphabet

* Month before Febrero

* "One lump _____?": Between 1 and 3 wds.

* Parisian subway

* Planet ruled by Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

* Prefix meaning "bone"

* Purple chameleon from Sonic Heroes (Anagram of POISE)

* Slytherin student who called Hermione Granger a "filthy mudblood"

* The invention of this is often credited to Guglielmo Marconi

* Website originally named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"

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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Cramped Crossword 4

It's been roughly two weeks since "Cramped Crossword 4" was posted on this blog, and eleven people since then have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• Cindy Heisler ****
• Giovanni Pagano ****
• Joe Bernard ****
• Kevin Orfield ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Stephen Potter ****
• Mom ****
• Debbie Benford ****
• Lynn Sweeney ****

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #297: Slot Machine 4

PUZZLE #297

SLOT MACHINE 4

Before I get to the directions, I just wanted to warn you all ahead of time that this specific puzzle took me way too long to construct (it lasted an entire day and most of its preceding evening, in fact). As a result, there are some harder-than-usual clues and entries here, so as a reminder, don't be afraid to look some of them up. After all, you won't get penalized if you do so. Now then, here's how to solve this puzzle:

 

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 teen drama whose original theme song went gold: ? wds.

ROWS

1) Bright Vegas lights

    "Do you have Prince Albert _____?": 3 wds.

2) Like many movie villains

    With very little movement

3) Spider's egg pouch

    The largest island in the Irish Sea

4) Completely cockamamie

    Pacific weather phenomenon in 1998 headlines: 2 wds.

5) Incubus lead singer Brandon

    Payment to use a company's copyrighted material

6) Moth genus (alright, just change a vowel in ISOTONES)

    Zodiac sign with the shortest name

7) Hockey feint

    They're some of the longest snakes in the world

8) "The _____ of Omaha" (Warren Buffett's nickname)

    Humped mammal ridden by Porky Pig in Ali-Baba Bound

9) TV spinoff whose theme song was The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again": 2 wds.

    How the West Was Won actor Wallach

10) Ruler of a religion-controlled government, for one

      Interjection from SNL's Wayne and Garth

11) Like photographs shot from drones

      Her first single "Goodies" went to #1 (wait, didn't I already use her two puzzles ago?)

TUMBLERS

1) Gasoline ratings

    Abbr. in footnotes meaning "In the same place"

2) Brown-_____ (suck-up)

    Four-armed Mortal Kombat 3 character (HINT: Her name sounds like a four-armed Hindu deity)

3) Beethoven symphony initially dedicated to Napoleon

    Monster from Japanese folklore, such as a kappa or a tengu

4) Publisher/developer of the original Ninja Gaiden video game

    _____ Empire (even weirder than usual David Lynch film)

5) It's not the real thing, but an incredible imitation

    Trigonometry wave

6) One billion years

    With "The", Pulitzer Prize-winning novel where a farmboy adopts a pet deer

7) And so on and so forth: Abbr.

    Jeff who created the newspaper comic Shoe

8) Country that shares the same island as the Dominican Republic

    Indoor football venues

9) Bad sign: 2 wds.

    New Testament book that precedes Romans

10) Of the pre-Easter period

      Female faun from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage

11) Lengthy list, as of complaints

      Spinning toys that go around the world?

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 a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!