PUZZLE #299
MOVING STAIRCASES 10
The two staircase-shaped halves of a "Moving Staircases" puzzle are designed to be pushed together in two different ways, horizontally and vertically. A horizontal push creates shorter words ("Shorts"), while a vertical push creates longer words ("Longs"). The example above shows a completed grid and the grids that result from pushing it both ways. The lists of clues given for the Shorts and Longs are not in order; it's up to you to determine where the answers go by working back and forth between the two lists.
Once you've completely filled out the grid, the FINAL ANSWER (the name of a top ten hit song from the 1980s) will be hidden inside it; one of the words is hidden horizontally (is it a Short or a Long? that's up to you to find out!), while the other is hidden vertically.
SHORTS
* Crimes of fiery passion?
* Elaborately ornate
* Figure It Out host Sanders
* Real name of Sailor Moon, in the original English dub (or Venus Williams' sister)
* Someone who graffitis bathroom walls, say
* "We're not lost, we're just taking the _____ route!"
* Word following "twist" or "cliffhanger"
LONGS
* 2010s political thriller starring Kerry Washington
* _____ and Old Lace (Cary Grant film based on a play)
* Gatorland's state
* More tranquil
* Order to show up in court
* Type of machine stocked with soda bottles
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!
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