PUZZLE #350
WONDER TWINS
It's my 350th puzzle! As you may know, I tend to do special things on this blog whenever the number of puzzles I've made hits a multiple of 50. The last couple milestones were both meta-crosswords, but this time around, I'm debuting a new format to this blog! Specifically, it's one heavily inspired by the GAMES Magazine staple "Siamese Twins", but renamed after a couple Hanna-Barbera characters (Because why the heck not? I frequently reference cartoons in my clues, after all!). I don't have much else to add to that, so I'm gonna jump straight to the directions!
There are two identical crossword grids and two sets of clues to go with them, so that you can solve them both at the same time. However, each clue number has two different clues for two different answers (sorted randomly), so you have to figure out which answer goes in which grid. To help you get started, both answers for one pair of clues have been filled in.
Once everything has been filled in, you should notice that some corresponding squares in the solved grids will have the exact same letters. Read them in order to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a video game from the late 1990s
Once everything has been filled in, you should notice that some corresponding squares in the solved grids will have the exact same letters. Read them in order to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a video game from the late 1990s
ACROSS
1) Do harm
Driest desert in North America
7) Tantrum-throwing tyke
_____ clock (it was invented to speed up basketball games)
11) Opt for one over the other
Sandy who pitched a perfect game in 1965
12) Loony, to Speedy Gonzales
Serve ice water
13) Computer game company that created Space Quest and King's Quest
Seep through a membrane
14) Memo heading
Utterly amiss
15) Guru's retreat
Like most houseplants
17) "You _____ Call Me Al" (Paul Simon song)
Type of card with actors' lines
19) Makes a tiny adjustment
Too (and not the kind of "too" that means "also")
23) '80s cartoon with the evil organization Cobra: 2 wds.
Month with National High Five Day
26) Handheld harp ancestors
"There was an old woman who lived in _____...": 2 wds.
27) "Down in the dumps" and "up in the air", for two
Film company that once owned the Anaheim Ducks
29) 100 (or older), to a centenarian
Icons of early '90s rap, in hip-hop slang
30) Dirtied with literal dirt
YouTube music video type involving people mouthing the words to various songs: 2 wds.
33) Orange-haired heroine of The Promised Neverland (or a Jane Austen novel)
_____'s Number Journey (Sesame Street video game)
36) Not as difficult
Small and slender
39) Person, place, or thing
What Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat
40) Chop with a butcher knife
States of boredom
41) 11/22/63 author Stephen
US coin that doesn't have the word "cents" printed on it
42) Philatelist's collection
Unpopped bit in the bottom of a popcorn bag
DOWN
1) When doubled, Top 20 hit by the Belle Stars
AWOL hunters: Abbr.
2) "Either that wallpaper goes, _____ do!": 2 wds.
Words almost never said by yes-men
3) _____ Creepers 3 (2017 film sequel)
2017 film sequel subtitled "Welcome to the Jungle"
4) Flying saucers in Space Invaders
Hairstyle for Dr. J
5) Old TV knob next to “HORIZ.”
Poison oak reaction
6) Muse of poetry (and crosswords, given how many times she shows up in 'em...)
Wield, as force
7) Australian way of saying "Egad!"
Card game with "nil bidding"
8) First word in Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind"
_____ Stoppable (Kim Possible's sidekick)
9) Belonging to both of us
Unlike this clue's dir.
10) Foot part that can be stubbed
Test one's patience
16) Hole-punching tool used in some Classic Concentration rebuses
Stuck on You actress Mendes
17) Special effects used to animate Jimmy Neutron
Ungentlemanly lout
18) Helping hand
News agency that offers "Quirks in the News"
20) Metal often used to plate white gold
Tales of the _____ Nights (pinball machine with a rotating genie lamp)
21) "It's big, it's heavy, it's wood", according to Ren & Stimpy
Gunpowder barrel
22) "Leave It" rock band
Opposite of NNW
24) Off one’s metaphorical rocker
Pig from Dragon Ball named after a Chinese tea variety
25) Name of MGM's lion mascot
Record label broken up in 2012
28) "Holy shamoley!"
Tiny bit of dust
31) FBI agent investigating Laura's death in Twin Peaks
It starts on Ash Wednesday
32) Sicily's only active volcano
Software purchaser
33) Keyboard key beneath "Home"
Member of a certain Benevolent and Protective Order
34) Necklace given to tourists arriving at Hawaii
"Excusez-_____!"
35) Close-lipped, like a flower?
The "M" in "BMOC"
37) Pencil pointer
The night before Christmas, say
38) 19th letter, phonetically
Lil _____ Howery (host of NBC's Small Fortune)
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!
