Monday, January 10, 2022

PUZZLE #369: Zigzagnut 7

PUZZLE #369
ZIGZAGNUT 7

This puzzle contains a word suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!

The numbered clues are for the zigzags, which work their way down through the diagram in the outlined areas. The "Rows" clues are for the answers, two per row, to be entered straight across each row in the diagram, but to make things harder, you don't know which specific rows the answers will go into! (Though the answers in the rows themselves are in the correct order)

This week's FINAL ANSWER consists of the two numbered answers with no clues (#5 & #16) that combine to make up a two-word phrase


ROWS (in random order; each contains two answers)
• Straw mat in a Japanese household
  The Darling family's dog in Peter Pan
• They determine one's blood type
  Gin and _____
• Appropriately-named first album by Björk
  Zac from the High School Musical trilogy
• Being pulled from behind: 2 wds.
  The last two letters in GOAT
• 2010s Best Picture Oscar winner set in Tehran
  Vegetable scraper
• The official fuel brand of NASCAR
  Rock, in rock paper scissors
• "Bang a Gong" glam rockers: 2 wds.
  Hypersensitive to latex or bee stings, perhaps
• White-colored flavor of Cheez-It crackers
  Newbery _____
• Area for playing Marco Polo
  Like someone with alopecia universalis
• Zoroastrian scripture (anagram of SAVE AT)
  South Korean sneaker company
• Symbol in a Calcudoku puzzle that only uses addition
  Cheerful, like a bouncy pop song

ZIGZAGS
1) Back-slamming wrestling moves
2) Entre _____ (confidentially)
3) Felix and Oscar, for an "Odd" example
4) Material used in "muffler men" statues on Route 66
5) THE FIRST HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
6) John who reunited with Olivia Newton-John in 1983's Two of a Kind
7) Playable character in the first Assassin's Creed game (or the brightest star in Aquila)
8) Title for a Microsoft Word document, say
9) Root vegetable on a couch?
10) Star Wars star Mark
11) Word preceding "Lampoon" or "Enquirer"
12) "Most assuredly"
13) Green fruit in Yoshi's Island (If Yoshi eats one, he can spit out seeds!)
14) Hungarian capital where Katy Perry's "Firework" music video was shot
15) Composer Chopin
16) THE SECOND HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
17) Ron's _____ Wrong (2021 animated film about a glitchy robot)

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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