Monday, November 23, 2020

PUZZLE #310: All Four One

PUZZLE #310
ALL FOUR ONE

There are four mostly-empty 4x4 crossword grids, as well as four sets of eight clues. Arrange the answers from each set of clues into a grid where they can all properly fit, so that every grid has four words reading down and four words reading across. After that, transfer the completed grids into the four sections of the larger diagram beneath them so that four 8-letter words are formed reading across the top and bottom, and down the left and right sides.

Once everything is correctly filled in, take two of the newly-formed 8-letter words to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a movie from the early 1980s



SET #1
• Annoying emails with often questionable grammar
• Between "half" and "all"
• Country directly beneath Ecuador
• Dynamic prefix
• Miffs
• Pixie powder
• "That's what she _____!" (repeated line in NBC's The Office)
• Torah scrolls are kept in them

SET #2
• Annual 500-mile race, for short
• Berlin Airlift photographer Henry (Anagram of SIRE)
• Easter egg colorer
• Felt repentant
• German "a"
• Ms. Krabappel who used to teach Bart Simpson
• One of 120 stellar collectibles in Super Mario 64
• The last letter in "CPU"

SET #3
• Brief note from the boss
• Growth in a gross fish tank
• Imprint on glass
• Measures of resistance represented by omegas
• Only US state with a three-word capital
• Pretty much has to
• What "U Can't Touch", according to MC Hammer
_____ Wowee (rhyming "Match-3" game with Hawaiian imagery)

SET #4
• Car's scar
_____Enders (long-running BBC soap)
• Like ripened cheddar
• Need some Advil or Aleve, perhaps
• "Rock of Ages," e.g. (the Christian one, not the one by Def Leppard)
The Clothed Maja painter
• They make up over half of all trees in NYC's Central Park
• Tom Cruise's role in Days of Thunder

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!

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