PUZZLE #339
SUPER SIXES 4
Enter the answers to the Across clues in the appropriate rows reading from left to right. The answer to each "Sixes" clue starts in the numbered square and goes either clockwise or counterclockwise around its 3x2 rectangle (the direction is left for you to determine by using the Across answers).
Once you've completely filled in the grid, the letters in the gray squares, read from top to bottom, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a musical group that originally had six members
i) Piece in the board game Go
ii) Baleen whale's grub
iii) Stimulant in Barq's root beer
iv) Colosseum combatants
v) Timothy who played 007 in The Living Daylights
"_____ Green is people!" (famous last line from a '70s dystopian film)
vi) Book after 2 Chronicles
What a funambulist walks on
vii) Scarlet plants of the primrose family
Handle a halberd, say
viii) Used a crowbar
Jerks who drive way too close to another car's rear bumper
ix) Last name of a talkative cartoon rooster
Light in the night sky
x) #1 Beatles song that begins with a harmonica riff: 3 wds.
He's toast
xi) The titular wimpy kid from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
Toys in the Attic rock band
xii) Change from gas to liquid again
xiii) Picketers' posters
xiv) Red carpet walker, briefly
xv) Sheep's milk sac
SIXES
1) CD's songs that can be "hidden"
2) Model train brand in the National Toy Hall of Fame
3) Coated like a Christmas ham
4) "Curiously Strong" mint
5) Oldest student in high school, perhaps
6) Damon Salvatore's brother in The Vampire Diaries
7) Virtual animal from a website popular in the 2000s (such as a Kacheek or Korbat)
8) Scottish kilt pattern
9) Like Snidely Whiplash's mustache
10) "_____ Ride" (Christmas song by the Ronettes)
11) Wee wave
12) Block progress of
13) Really large number that inspired the name of a really large tech company
14) Snarl up like fishing wire
15) Respectful tribute
16) Cutting-edge
17) Pirates of the Caribbean: At _____ End
18) Nintendo 64 game where you play as a wizard's hand covering
19) The woman wearing the scarlet letter
20) Fabrics for overalls
21) Type of mining used during a gold rush (Anagram of PARCEL)
22) Ring around the sun
23) Snuggle up
24) Siamese, Sphynx, Scottish Fold, and others
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!
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