Monday, May 24, 2021

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!

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