PUZZLE #271
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 15
For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a musical group
CENTERS
1) What yeast makes dough do
2) Any hit by Little Richard or Chuck Berry, today
3) Superman villain Luthor who was once elected President
4) Movie production company with a famous scene from E.T. as its logo
5) Day-_____ (fluorescent paint company)
6) "For here _____ go?": 2 wds.
7) French city where van Gogh lived and made over 300 paintings
WHOLES
* Antivirus software introduced in 1991
* Like elephant seals, and not like sea lions
* More fuzzy, like food that's been left in the back of the fridge
* Name that Amazon Echo responds to
* Playing pachinko or video poker, perhaps
* Snowy dome
* With "out", ended with a shrinking circle transition like a Looney Tunes short
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!
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a musical group
CENTERS
1) What yeast makes dough do
2) Any hit by Little Richard or Chuck Berry, today
3) Superman villain Luthor who was once elected President
4) Movie production company with a famous scene from E.T. as its logo
5) Day-_____ (fluorescent paint company)
6) "For here _____ go?": 2 wds.
7) French city where van Gogh lived and made over 300 paintings
WHOLES
* Antivirus software introduced in 1991
* Like elephant seals, and not like sea lions
* More fuzzy, like food that's been left in the back of the fridge
* Name that Amazon Echo responds to
* Playing pachinko or video poker, perhaps
* Snowy dome
* With "out", ended with a shrinking circle transition like a Looney Tunes short
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!
