PUZZLE #302
HONEYCOMB 2
Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.
Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter noun
1) Makeup applied with a puff
2) Color of Waluigi's cap
3) Gentle breeze near the end of a dictionary
4) Conspiracy _____
5) Polished a Porsche, perhaps
6) Word following "stick" or "father"
7) Madonna song that samples ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)": 2 wds.
8) First name of a nursery rhyme egg found in Through the Looking-Glass
9) Sorry situation
10) Kids' welfare org. with Halloween donation boxes
11) Designer of a famed French tower
12) Roman _____ (current WWE Universal Champion)
13) "Cars" singer Gary and his daughters
14) Bit of Baskin-Robbins ice cream in a tiny spoon, say
15) Made water so hot, it bubbled over
16) Insect with a 17-year life cycle
17) King whose album Tapestry obtained Diamond status
18) Secret groom
19) All episodes of Gunsmoke, nowadays
20) Egyptian god who leads souls to the afterlife
21) Increased a poker bet
22) First name of "Mad Dog" Tannen from Back to the Future Part III
23) Half of a circle's diameter
24) _____ My Mom Will Shoot (film that Sylvester Stallone regrets making): 2 wds.
25) Don Carlos and Don Giovanni, for two
26) Resident of Oranjestad
27) White mouse from The Rescuers Down Under voiced by Eva Gabor
28) All lined up: 3 wds.
29) Secondhand apartment rental
30) Definitely gonna: 2 wds.
31) Hostile attitude
32) Culpeo or coyote
33) Crustaceous claw
34) Monarchs and measuring sticks
35) Thigh bones
36) Evoke a forgotten memory
37) The Wrestler director Aronofsky
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!
