PUZZLE #272
BRICK BY BRICK 7
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 short-lived game show
ACROSS
1) Tony who lent his name to the
Pro Skater series of video games
Portia de Rossi, to Ellen DeGeneres
Rainbow Dash's pet turtle (or a treaded army vehicle)
2) Post-workout pain
Giant squid's home
Soup thickener obtained from seaweed
3) Primary
Windy City airport
Bean type discovered in Peru
4)
Doctor Who time machine that looks like a blue phone booth
Mr. Jean formerly of the Fugees
5) "_____ from a Hat" (recurring
Whose Line Is It Anyway? game)
Magazine that named the computer "Machine of the Year" in 1982
Wintertime hrs. in Vermont
6) Gut-punch reaction
"See ya later, alligator!"
Rod wielded by Willy Wonka
7) Tech-savvy woman who often helps out Jack Bauer on
24
Part of ICU
"On the double!"
8)
THE FINAL ANSWER
9)
Bus Stop playwright
Clock face
Moog instrument, for short
10) Span's partner
Biblical suffix
Tamera Mowry's twin sister
11) Bro or sis
Current
Card Sharks host McHale
The one that GameSpot gave
Super Mario Odyssey had a perfect 10/10
12)
Rock & Roll Jeopardy and
Survivor host Jeff
"Rap God" rapper
13) Midwestern state whose motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"
Best possible
Lowest high tide
14) Wrinkle one's brow
Reef stuff eaten by parrotfish
Ctrl+Z, in Microsoft Excel
15)
_____ Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick's final film)
Places full of dumbbells
Word in a red octagon
DOWN
1) Side dish for green eggs
Where the Winter Olympics were held before Pyeongchang
Tommy's dog in
Rugrats
2) Health initiative that Obama signed into law in 2010: Abbr.
Borat star Sacha Baron _____
Literary device commonly seen in
Twilight Zone's twist endings
3) Dido song with the lyrics "I will go down with this ship"
David who played Jareth the Goblin King in
Labyrinth
4)
SNL veteran Thompson who played characters like Superdude and Pierre Escargot on
All That
Poems that Keats wrote about a nightingale and a Grecian urn
Echolocating mammals
5) James Dean once played one "Without a Cause"
Slumber party attire
6) Owl who said "Give a hoot! Don't pollute!"
Completely cockamamie
7) The first number in Japan
Carol Burnett's character in
Mama's Family
Snoopy or Scooby, say
8) Meal fit for a king
PBS funder
Quite cautious
9) Cauliflower _____
Frozen drip
Palindromic address for a lady
10) Failed '60s educational experiment that made Sally from
Peanuts scream
"All I want to know is, how much is two and two?"
Sings like a canary, literally
11) Coin in Kyoto
Pasty-faced
12) Earth's softest mineral
The lowest difficulty level in many video games
Planet even hotter than Mercury
13) Not at all stiff
Tender emotion
14) Larry, Barry, and Harry, for example
The Adventures of Pete & Pete character known as "the strongest man in the world"
Much _____ About Mousing (
Tom and Jerry cartoon)
15) Maker of Cool Whip and Miracle Whip
"Oh, horsefeathers!"
Music genre (and song title) for *NSYNC
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!
