PUZZLE #337: Dilly Dally 4

PUZZLE #337

DILLY DALLY 4

Each answer in the grid below consists of two 6-letter words that both start with the same letter, like ASKING AROUND.

Once the grid has been filled out, hidden inside and going up, down, or diagonally will be the FINAL ANSWER: A line of toys whose name also consists of two 6-letter words starting with the same letter.

1) Treats for Shaggy and his pet dog

2) Seesaw

3) Property of a number between (or equal to) 10 and 99

4) Turkey's onomatopoeia

5) "Smile! You're on _____!" (catchphrase for an old TV show with Allen Funt)

6) First film in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy

7) Long-running PBS series with Guy Smiley and Grover

8) Dough slicer shaped like a gingerbread man

9) Reptilian schmoozer at a bar?

10) Keyed instruments that use rolls

11) British royal family member who was once a model on Deal or No Deal

12) NHL team with black and gold jerseys

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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: Line 'Em Up 10

It's been roughly two weeks since "Line 'Em Up 10" was posted on this blog, and sixteen people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Dave C
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Karen Spencer
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Brittany Trofimovich 
• Seth Christenfeld
• Tyler Hinman
• Marich
• Tamara Brenner
• Lynn Sweeney
• Bonnie Veenschoten
• Peter Abide

Now head before the break for the answers as well as some solvers' comments!

PUZZLE #336: Quadruple Cross 3

PUZZLE #336

QUADRUPLE CROSS 3

To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!

Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a cartoon character

CLUES
1) Fuzzy creature from Gremlins voiced by Howie Mandel

    Greenish-brown eye color

2) Ash Wednesday poet T. S.

    Genre for Sailor Moon Crystal

3) Emmitt, the furry aquatic mammal who went missing in Zootopia, for one

    Hailing from Holland

4) Grind teeth

    Use putty rubber, perhaps

5) Frappuccino flavor

    Prickly plants found in the "Skelos Badlands" level of Spyro 2

6) Peach _____ (ice cream dessert)

    Squiggly line meaning "approximately," when placed in front of a number

7) Believer in a "hands-off" God

    Mildly castigate

8) Japanese game similar to chess played on a 9x9 board

    Portly, like a certain potent potable?

9) Owned, biblically speaking

    Tennis star Rafael who appeared in a commercial for Mario Tennis Aces

10) Led Zeppelin II, e.g.

      Storybook series about an elephant king

11) Blue screen of _____ (nickname for what happens when a Windows PC crashes)

      Taste that isn't sweet, sour, salty or bitter

12) Gleeful merriment

      Like a young female with extremely stereotypical feminine traits

13) Archrival

      Control a Cadillac, say

14) Missile shot by Katniss Everdeen

      The only gift from the Magi that's five letters long

15) Foe of Spider-Man who dresses up like a horned herbivore

      Ponder

16) _____ Rae (Oscar-winning role for Sally Field)

      Sung line

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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: Rebus Buster 2

Thirteen days have passed by since "Rebus Buster 2" (complete with artwork made by me) was posted on this blog, and since then, fifteen people have correctly solved it, including the first person to take advantage of my simplified hint system that launched last April:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Dave C.
• Tyler Hinman
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Mama Ellen
• Sam Levitin
• Karen Spencer
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner
• Al Sisti
• Marich
• Seth Christenfeld
• Peter Abide [Hints Used]

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

PUZZLE #335
LINE 'EM UP 10

Place the answers to each numbered clue in the squares to the right of each corresponding number (a number in brackets following each clue will tell you how many letters are in each answer). Once you have the answers, align them properly in the grid so that going down, a two-word phrase will be spelled out by the two red columns in the grid's center.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is the name of an '80s arcade game

1) Aardvark from children's books written by Marc Brown [6]

2) Midwestern state with the National Aviation Hall of Fame [4]

3) Board game-based film from 1985 with multiple endings [4]

4) Pottery oven [4]

5) Wager from Contestant's Row on The Price is Right [3]

6) In mint condition [3]

7) The _____ Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Cartoon Network show about two kids and a skeletal reaper) [4]

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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: Meta-Crossword 8: 3 on a Match

It's been almost two weeks since my latest meta-crossword, "3 on a Match", was posted on this blog, and a truly immense thirty-two people successfully figured it out since then, setting a new record for this year! Thank you all so much for solving! I truly appreciate it!

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Giovanni Pagano
• Dave C
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Tyler Hinman
• Karen Spencer
• Stephen Potter
• Kitchendiva
• Marich
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Dannyvee
• Hector Pefo
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• Yossi Fendel
• Chris Kochmanski
• Mama Ellen
• Morgan Chase
• Peter Abide
• Al Sisti
• Bob Harris
• Lynn Sweeney
• Oldjudge
• Dudeski
• Pavel Curtis
• Lbray53
• Richard Allen
• Chris Hendricks

By the way, one of my solvers, Richard Allen, does a monthly meta-crossword at www.lexicondevil.live, so if you like metas, be sure to give that site a visit! Anyway, if you want to know the answer to this puzzle (as well as read several solvers' comments), go ahead and click on "Read more" below!

PUZZLE #334: Rebus Buster 2

PUZZLE #334

REBUS BUSTER 2

Below are 20 seemingly unrelated pictures that are actually several rebuses jumbled up together. First, find the answers to the clues below. Then find the pictures that combine to make a rebus which matches each answer and cross them out. For instance, if one of the answers is PANTRY, then you should cross out the pictures that represent "PAN" [🍳] and "TREE" [🌲]. Beware of tricky homophones along the way!

Once all the clues have been solved and most of the pictures have been crossed out, the remaining pictures should create a rebus that will form the FINAL ANSWER:  the name of a film from 1999

CLUES

• Artilleryman on a pirate ship

• Truthful attribute embodied by Applejack from My Little Pony

• NBA team based in North Carolina

• Jack who played the Joker in Batman (1989)

• Spoof by MAD Magazine such as "Makeus Sickby, M.D."

• Island country in Southeast Asia that's technically a city-state

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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!

ANSWER: Drop Tower 8

It's been close to two weeks since "Drop Tower 8" was posted on this blog, and just like last week's answers post, an almost record-tying twenty-one people wound up solving it, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Joe Bernard
• Giovanni Pagano
• Kevin Orfield
• Karen Spencer
• Dave C
• Stephen Potter
• Alex Sisti
• Tyler Hinman
• Sam Levitin
• Tamara Brenner
• Brittany Trofimivich
• Mom
• Seth Christenfeld
• Bonnie Veenschoten
• Debbie Benford
• Peter Abide
• Wendy Walker
• Chris Hendricks
• Elliott Frankfother

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #333: Meta-Crossword 8: 3 on a Match

PUZZLE #333

META-CROSSWORD 8: "3 ON A MATCH"

Wow, look at all those 3s! And I know just the thing to celebrate that milestone: another meta-crossword! As a reminder, meta-crosswords are like normal crosswords, except they have a Bonus Puzzle for you to solve once you fill out the grid. I won't tell you how to get the Bonus Puzzle's FINAL ANSWER, as the techniques in getting them vary wildly, so you pretty much have to figure it out yourself (though the title of each meta-crossword also doubles as a small hint that might help you).

The FINAL ANSWER to the Bonus Puzzle is the name of a sporting event.

Just in case the embedded interactive crossword doesn't show up above for whatever reason, you can go to the link at http://crossword.info/Redhead64/3_On_A_Match and solve it there. Anyway, 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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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: Nonplussed 3

Wow! That's all I can say regarding the number of people that have solved "Nonplussed 3" from two weeks ago, just ..... wow!! All in all, a huge twenty-two people have solved it; the most amount so far for a puzzle published this year! Take a look:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Kevin Orfield
• Karen Spencer
• Al Sisti
• Marich
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner
• Patrick Jordan
• Dave C.
• Stephen Potter
• Tyler Hinman
• Peter Abide
• Lynn Sweeney
• Elliott Frankfother
• Sam Levitin
• Joe Bernard
• DannyVee
• Seth Christenfeld
• Bonnie Veenschoten
• Debbie Benford
• Chris Hendricks

Now head below the break for the answers as well as some solvers' comments!