HALLOWEEN MONTH II!
PUZZLE #306
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 16: DOUBLE DECKER WORD SANDWICHES RETURN
It's the final puzzle for Halloween Month II, and not only is the puzzle that I've planned one that's more-or-less become my signature creation, it's also a variant of it that's figuratively returned from the dead, as I haven't done one of this specific type since Puzzle #150, which just happened to be published on Halloween's Eve three years ago! Now, while the previous "Double Decker" I've created failed to have a Halloween theme despite its timing, I didn't make the same mistake this time, so read on for directions on how to solve it!
It's time to make some Double Decker Word Sandwiches! Normal rules to
"Squeezed in the Middle" apply, but with a twist. First, enter the "Centers"
in the corresponding numbered spaces. Then, enter two "Wholes" in each row,
each one using the letters in one white space and the two adjacent brown
spaces. All of the brown squares have only one letter each in them, and the
brown spaces in the center column will be shared by two "Wholes".
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading
down, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: A three-word title of a horror-comedy
film.
CENTERS
1) Plastic thingamabob on a shoelace tip
2) The House with a Clock in Its Walls director Roth
3) Word between "veni" and "vici"
4) Kitchen flooring option, for short
5) Opposite of post-
6) Good Times star Esther
7) Cuatro − uno
8) Japanese hot spring
9) Funny or _____ (comedy website co-founded by Will Ferrell)
10) Angsty rock genre of Hawthorn Heights
11) Female alien from the Mass Effect trilogy who wears a mask (ALTERNATE CLUE: Anklebones)
12) Cosmic Crisp or Honeycrisp
WHOLES
* And others, in bibliographies: 2 wds. (HINT: This masculine plural ends with two of the same vowel)
* "Au revoir!" alternative
* Baby versions of America's national bird
* Deliberately ticked off a website's users for the lulz, say
* Emphasize a syllable
* Foe of Green Lantern who got his name when he was compared to an ancient artifact
* Fruity disc-shaped candy packaged in a tube
* Marianne's older sister in Sense and Sensibility
* Permission, especially for making love
* Spotted, like some horses
* Swab the deck again
* Tech company that creates the GeForce graphics processor
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!
