PUZZLE #283
THE SPIRAL SQUARED 4
This puzzle turns in two directions. The Spiral's "Inward" clues yield a sequence of words to be entered clockwise in the spaces from 1 to 100. The "Outward" clues yield a different set of words to be entered counterclockwise from 100 to 1. Fill in the answers, one letter per space, according to the numbers beside each clue. Make sure to keep track of which way you're going!
Once you've filled out the grid, read out the highlighted squares diagonally to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a ten-letter word.
INWARD
1-6: Inventor Thomas who said "There is no substitute for hard work"
7-9: Selectric typewriter manufacturer
10-17: Like fractal art or drip paintings
18-22: New Jersey county whose seat is Newark
23-28: Antivirus software's warnings
29-35: River that drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario
36-39: Jane who was created by a Brontë sister
40-44: Negative response to a sergeant: 2 wds.
45-51: Fluttershy, for one (HINT: She's a winged equine)
52-56: Watchmen and V for Vendetta writer Alan
57-59: Ms. _____-Man: Maze Madness (2000 video game)
60-67: Smooth or unbroken, as film transitions
68-76: Ship that landed at present-day Plymouth about 400 years ago
77-80: Resident of a forest moon in Return of the Jedi
81-90: General who surrendered at Yorktown
91-95: _____ Dame Fighting Irish (college football team)
96-100: Topsoils and silts and such
OUTWARD
100-94: 1989 arcade game by Capcom where you play as a ninja wielding a plasma sword
93-88: Literal lump in one's throat
87-84: Word preceding "tennis" or "mower"
83-79: Cartoon wallaby with a pet dog named Spunky
78-71: Hairy monster that Ozzy Osbourne becomes in his "Bark at the Moon" music video
70-67: Candied Thanksgiving staples
66-62: Alabama city that's home to the National Voting Rights Museum
61-51: Puzzling places where you pay to get trapped for up to an hour: 2 wds.
50-46: Electric bill info
45-38: Morgan Freeman played one in The Shawshank Redemption
37-34: 52 weeks
33-27: Cards _____ Humanity (party game not for the easily offended)
26-20: Takes a load off in a hammock, maybe
19-17: Scenery for a Broadway musical
16-12: Shopping items that are called "trolleys" in Britain
11-5: With "The", one of Babe Ruth's nicknames
4-1: The Far _____ (single-panel comic that finally got its own proper website in 2019)
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!
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