It's been almost two weeks since my first contest puzzle in two years, "Helter Skelter 6", was posted on this blog. I'll get to the winners soon, but first, I have to list the nineteen people who have solved this puzzle:
- Grant Fikes (opted out of the contest)
- Cindy Heisler
- Joe Bernard
- Kevin Orfield (opted out)
- Alex Sisti
- Tyler Hinman
- Karen Spencer
- Tamara Brenner
- Sam Levitin
- Meg Duvall
- Mindy Moore
- Yossi Fendel
- Michael Lebowitz
- Lbray53
- Wendy Walker
- Mom (ineligible)
- Peter Abide
- Lynn Sweeney
- Giovanni Pagano (opted out)
Since I have so many solvers, I've decided to give away two copies of Octopus Crosswords by Brendan Emmett Quigley! And the randomly-chosen winners of that book are: Mindy Moore and Wendy Walker! Congratulations you two, and I hope you'll enjoy that prize!
Now that the contest is officially over, head below the break for the answers!
And here are the answers in text format, in case you can't make out the above letters:
1) Able, 2) Book, 3) Owed, 4) Dora, 5) Anion, 6) NAACP, 7) Pride, 8) Ideate, 9) Earnest, 10) Sci, 11) Chirp, 12) Ptolemy, 13) Yosemite, 14) Times, 15) Magnolia, 16) Gloom, 17) Made Way, 18) Amtrak, 19) Rend, 20) Nokia, 21) Artwork, 22) Online, 23) NATO, 24) Omens, 25) Soto
The gray letters unscramble to spell out WHITENER
This puzzle contains the seed word PTOLEMY, suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley
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