PUZZLE #355
HONEYCOMB 3
Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.
Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word
1) Alaska's highest mountain
2) _____ Rouge! (musical directed by Baz Luhrmann)
3) Ricky Martin's old boy band
4) Accustoms to hardship [NOTE: Either spelling will fit, but my answer has no repeating letters]
5) Fighting game character's posture
6) _____ rasa (blank slate)
7) Has skepticism about
8) Coercion
9) Bring back a long-dormant media franchise, say
10) Ryan from The Drew Carey Show
11) Periods of equilibrium
12) Kind of droopy-eared hound
13) Incredible bargains
14) Bread aisle array
15) The "X" in Professor X's name
16) Bring in goods from Greece, maybe
17) Most impolite
18) Hyundai's Accent and Sonata, for two
19) "Wabbit _____!" "Duck _____!"
20) Greetings from the 50th state
21) Pulled a fast one
22) It's tested by bopping a knee with a hammer
23) Brain cell that acts on impulse
24) Like medieval England
25) Bump's idiomatic location: 3 wds.
26) Buddies in Barcelona
27) Hillary Clinton's maiden name
28) Sings like the climber in the Price is Right game "Cliff Hangers"
29) Overwhelm with noise
30) _____ of Seagulls (new wave band with three Top 40 hits): 2 wds.
31) "I think", according to Descartes
32) License needed to legally hunt
33) Winnie the Pooh character with a detachable tail
34) Archimedes' cry of triumph
35) Hole in a pool table
36) Gadget that played CD-ROM games on the go, once
37) Gone off to beddy-bye
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!
