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!

ANSWERS: Flower Power 4

It's been close to two weeks since my fourth attempt at a "Flower Power" puzzle was posted here, and judging by the fact that eleven people solved it since then, I'd say that this effort was my most successful one of this type so far! Take a look:

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

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

PUZZLE #296: Cramped Crossword 4

PUZZLE #296

CRAMPED CROSSWORD 4

Solve the mini-crossword (this time, two of the answers are only three letters long), then unscramble the letters that go in the blank spaces to get the FINAL ANSWER: A 9-letter name of a video game for the original Xbox

* "Allahu _____!" (Islamic exclamation)

* Cowgirl's greeting

* He appeared in the Looney Tunes short "The Case of the Stuttering Pig"

* Louis' older sister in Even Stevens

* Mother from Hairspray and fashion designer from The Incredibles, for two

* Something shot out of Spider-Man's wrist

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: Eat Your Words 5

It's been almost two weeks since "Eat Your Words 5" was posted on this blog, and eleven people since then have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #295: Flower Power 4

PUZZLE #295

FLOWER POWER 4

The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.

Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise), and combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of an anime series.

CLOCKWISE

1) Professor Dumbledore of Hogwarts

2) Chuck Norris' very brief appearance in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, for one

3) Her 2006 single "Bossy" went double platinum

4) Tierra del _____

5) Disorderly demonstrations

6) Grey's Anatomy star Pompeo

7) DC Comics superheroine who can use all animals' abilities (and is named after a female fox)

8) Verbally expressed awe at fireworks

9) Truck, in Great Britain

10) "Body Party" singer

11) Alphabetizes

12) Medieval poets

13) "Life with _____" (recurring KaBlam! segment)

14) Portion out

15) Burn perfume in church

16) Word said twice before "Who's there?", in a series of jokes

17) Sans-serif font designed to be similar to Helvetica

18) Gristmill product

COUNTERCLOCKWISE

1) Literary character who said "Curiouser and curiouser!"

2) _____ and dagger

3) Afghanistan's capital

4) Strongest bone in the human body

5) Instructions on how to play whist, say

6) Old MacDonald's vowels

7) Journals on YouTube

8) "Slide Some _____ Me" (Tin Man's song from The Wiz): 2 wds.

9) Smoked salmon on bagels

10) Watch What Happens Live host Andy

11) Tornado alert

12) Surface for Stratego or Scrabble

13) Bucktoothed cucumber from VeggieTales

14) Large artery

15) Clumps of dirt (or people about as smart as clumps of dirt)

16) Certain seaweeds

17) Really rankle

18) Jack nipping at your nose

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: Section Six 7

It's been thirteen days since the final puzzle in Circular Month, "Section Six 7", was posted onto this blog, and a seriously impressive twelve people have solved it since then, all of whom can be seen in the list below:

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

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

PUZZLE #294: Eat Your Words 5

PUZZLE #294

EAT YOUR WORDS 5

In this puzzle, the words hinted at by the numbered clues (The "Numbered Words") can "eat" a word hinted at by a different set of clues (The "Eaten Words") without rearranging any of the letters. For example, the word BIT can eat the word AND to form BANDIT. All of the new words are entered into the grid in the order of the Numbered Words, and the Eaten Words are in no particular order.

Once all of the new words have been placed, the letters in the highlighted third column will spell out two more words. Insert one of the column's new words into the other to get the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a film from the early 1980s

NUMBERED WORDS

1) One of Mr. Krabs' pincers

2) "No ifs, ands, or _____!"

3) Bald tire's lack

4) With "The", home of the Hobbits

5) Wooden fishing spot

6) 20-sided objects in Dungeons & Dragons

7) Like foods that might make you obese

8) Welcome to Walmart, say

9) Disembodied hand from The Addams Family

EATEN WORDS

* 247 ÷ 247

* Al B. _____! ("Nite and Day" singer)

* Bravos at a bullfight

* Completely conks out

* Hulk co-creator Lee

* It's not me

* Mahershala who won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for both Moonlight and Green Book

* Pinterest, Pandora, or Pokémon Go, for example

* Prove one's literacy

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: Semicircle Sorting

It's been thirteen days since my first "Semicircle Sorting" puzzle was posted on this blog, and eleven people since then have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!