PUZZLE #282
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 4
Diagramless crosswords are solved by using the clues and their numbers to fill in the answers as well as the black squares. When completely filled in, the black squares in the grid will have diagonal symmetry, meaning that they'll look the same when rotated upside-down. As a help, the first number has already been placed in the grid.
Once everything's filled in, two of the across answers will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: A character's name.
ACROSS
1) Syringe amts.
4) Steely Dan album containing "Peg" and "Josie"
7) Hilda or Zelda, to Sabrina the Teenage Witch
9) With "The", Adam Sandler movie where he becomes a great football tackler whenever he gets angry
11) Punny unit of currency in
The Sims
12) Egg cells, scientifically speaking
15)
PART ONE OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
19) Very corrosion-resistant metal with an atomic number of 77
21) Winter hrs. in Salem, OR
24)
A _____ Love with Tila Tequila (2000s dating show starring a then-MySpace model): 2 wds.
27) Vegas-set forensic drama with spinoffs located in Miami and New York
28) Yellow tuna commonly used in sushi and crosswords
29) Prefix for "archy" that means "father"
30) European conger, e.g.
31) Mr. Nessman who works at WKRP in Cincinnatti
32) Type of Pokémon that can learn moves like "Acid" and "Toxic"
33) It's a step up from dial-up, for short
34)
The Man Who _____ His Wife for a Hat ('80s book written by a neurologist)
36)
PART TWO OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
42) Miss Prissy from Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, for one
43) "Ain't No Other Man" singer Christina
47) Sweater with a zipper
48) Rock band featured in the 1999 film
Detroit Rock City
49) Newman's _____ salad dressing
50) Court divider in
Mario Tennis Open
DOWN
1)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? illustrator Eric
2) Speedy solver of a certain toy invented by Ernő Rubik
3) Stick one's nose into
4) Typical reactions to adorable kitty videos
5) Pretty much the only word that can precede "alai"
6) All-day cash dispenser: Abbr.
8)
Judging Amy costar Daly
10) Greek goddess of the dawn
12) Cowardly blue dragon from
Dragon Tales (okay, fine, just delete a consonant from WORD)
13) Gave utterance to
14) Tickles one's fancy
16)
Crash Team Racing: _____-Fueled (award-winning video game remake)
17) The Little Engine That Could, say
18) Like a fiddle?
20) Pepper pulverizer
21) Conceal a coin, like a stage magician
22) Arabian leader with a silent last letter
23) Piece of paper produced by Puffs
24) Lighthearted parody
25) Gothic
Loud House character named after the Japanese poem type she specializes in
26) Tie-breaking NHL periods
32) Milk cap involved in a '90s fad
35) Channel that changed its name to Spike TV, and then to Paramount Network
37) Expansion _____ (computer game add-on)
38) Last lyric of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider"
39) Hospital employee who supervises candy stripers
40) Shakespearean synonym for "performed"
41) Laila who retired from boxing undefeated
44) Kurt Russell's role in
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
45) Like unbaked cookie dough
46) Antarctic explorer Bancroft
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!
