PUZZLE #393
QUADRUPLE CROSS 4
To begin solving this puzzle, view each numbered square in the grid as being in the center of a plus-shaped cross where two five-letter clue answers intersect. There are two clues corresponding to each number, and each numbered pair of crossing answers has the same middle letter. Here's the tricky part: which one of each pair's two answers goes across and which one goes down is for you to figure out, so make sure all of the answers overlap each other properly!
Once the grid has been filled in, read the sixteen outermost letters in a clockwise fashion to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a well-known logic puzzle
CLUES
1) Junked metal in a junkyard
Pink and round Nintendo character who explores a "Forgotten Land" in a 2022 video game
2) Bundle of axons in the spinal cord
Protective garment worn by Dexter's mom from Dexter's Laboratory
3) "Got any bright _____?"
Shaq's surname
4) First letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Talk show interviewee
5) Planet celebrated on April 22nd
Talking Heads singer David
6) Slangy term for those second in command
"_____ from Shaft" (Oscar-winning song by Isaac Hayes)
7) 3.28084 feet, roughly
Talking dog who first appeared in the fourth episode of The Jetsons
8) Short Circuit actor Guttenberg
Straight up, like a steel bar
9) Kathmandu's country
Uninspired (HINT: It rhymes with one of the words in "REM")
10) '90s way of saying "Fooled you!"
Poem set in a pastoral place
11) Friars Club event
Spitting animal from the Andes
12) McGwire and McGrath
Vice _____ (the other way around)
13) Chef Brown from Iron Chef America and Worst Cooks in America
Not before
14) It's used to make sidewalk art
Shake an Etch A Sketch, say
15) Got to one's feet
South Korean city considered the birthplace of K-pop
16) Prefix for "violet" or "violent"
Smooth gown fabric
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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