PUZZLE #406: Triangle Tangle 4

PUZZLE #406

TRIANGLE TANGLE 4

To solve this puzzle, enter the 4-letter answer to each clue into the diagram either from top to bottom or diagonally upward. There are two numbers starting each clue; each answer begins in the triangle marked with the first number, and ends in the triangle marked with the second.

Once the grid has been filled in, there are two more words hiding in the topmost row of letters and the bottommost row of letters. Combine them both to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a comic book character

1-2) Lamb _____'s Play-Along (PBS series that starred puppeteer Shari Lewis)

2-3) Joy Harjo or John Keats, e.g.

3-4) Lorde song with the lyrics "I'm kind of over being told to put my hands up in the air, so there"

4-5) Severely mangle

5-6) My Hero Academia character with acid-based superpowers (answer hidden in DETERMINATION)

6-7) Website for finding contractors that shortened its name in 2021

7-8) The Rite of Spring composer Stravinsky

8-9) Full-grown joeys, informally

9-10) Alphabetize, say

10-11) Numero before cuatro

11-12) Prefix for "colon" and "conductor"

12-13) Colorful computer that first went on sale in 1998

13-14) Hombre's home

14-15) Makes an inquiry

15-16) By the _____ of my teeth

16-17) Number of slots at the bottom of a Plinko board in The Price is Right

17-18) Deadly sin associated with the color green

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!

ANSWERS: Coined Phrases 6

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Coined Phrases 6" was posted on this blog, and since then, twelve people (and a family) have successfully solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Tyler Hinman
• KeoFam
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tamara Brenner

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #405: Honeycomb 4

PUZZLE #405

HONEYCOMB 4

One of the clues in this puzzle contains a phrase 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!

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 (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a 6-letter word

1) The northernmost capital in the United States

2) _____ Augustus (Roman emperor who, ironically, wasn't born in August)

3) Ascent automaker

4) Gave shelter to

5) Apple music application that debuted before Apple Music

6) Nickname of a supposed loch resident

7) Relatives of minks and martens

8) _____ jeopardy

9) Bun, bob, or beehive, e.g.

10) Bright green topping on a Chicago-style hot dog

11) Dorough from the Backstreet Boys and Mandel from America's Got Talent, for two

12) Not very sensible

13) Gassed up a jet

14) Attacked the fridge, maybe

15) Syndrome's female assistant in The Incredibles

16) Practices one of the three R's (specifically, the one listed before "recycle")

17) Greek island once home to the Ancient Wonder known as the Colossus

18) Descend: 2 wds.

19) Relating to mushrooms and yeast

20) Overly ornate

21) Inflatable part of a steering wheel

22) Car repair shop

23) Fast & Furious 6 actor Gibson

24) City that's home to Texas A&M International University

25) "We Have the Meats", to Arby's

26) Tesla who invented the Tesla coil

27) _____ Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (point-and-click adventure game)

28) American Red Cross founder Clara

29) Home for a beekeeper's hives

30) Ongoing story, such as a soap opera

31) Shown to one's seat: 2 wds.

32) Performing a feint on a hockey rink

33) Remove a salmon's skeleton, say

34) It's "in the Sky" in a Norman Greenbaum song

35) "history of the _____ world, i guess" (animated YouTube video with over 146 million views)

36) Navy rank that's above no other rank

37) Exceptionally talented

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!

ANSWERS: Slide Show: Double Feature 4

It's been close to two weeks since "Slide Show: Double Feature 4" was posted on this blog, and it proved to be on the harder side, since the number of solvers wound up being lower than usual:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Tyler Hinman
• Lynn Sweeney
• Mom
• KeoFam

If you want to know the solution to this tough puzzle, just head below the break!

PUZZLE #404: Coined Phrases 6

PUZZLE #404

COINED PHRASES 6

There is a set of five coins, all of which have one letter on each of their two faces. Each letter appears only once throughout the set, and no two coins share the same letter. Random flips of all the coins have produced six 5-letters words hinted at by the numbered clues. Once all six answers have been solved, use logic and deductive reasoning to figure out the letters that are printed on each coin. Finally, rearrange the coins so that both sides spell out two more 5-letter words that combine to make a two-word phrase.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is a term associated with card games

1) "Quaking" poplar that's Utah's state tree

2) Great blue _____ (wetland bird)

3) Singer whose first seven singles all cracked the top ten, starting with "Tik Tok"

4) Small bodies of water where you may feed ducks

5) Lying flat on one's face

6) Command to make a dog "talk"

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!

ANSWERS: Link-Letters 11

Thirteen days have passed by since "Link-Letters 11" was posted on this blog, so now's the time for me to reveal the list of everyone who has solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Sam Levitin
• Mike Armstrong
• KeoFam
• Tyler Hinman
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Michael Lebowitz
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #403: Slide Show: Double Feature 4

PUZZLE #403

SLIDE SHOW: DOUBLE FEATURE 4

In each of the two puzzles below, slide the 18 letters surrounding each grid into the empty squares so that four words are made reading across and five words are formed reading down. Letters above and below the grids slide vertically to any position without changing columns, and letters to the left and right slide horizontally without changing rows. All of the exterior letters are used only once, and as a help, each grid has two letters already placed inside.

Once both grids have been filled in, pick out one word from each and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a two-word phrase that's also the name of a PlayStation Portable game

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!

ANSWERS: Sunburst 4

It's been about two weeks since "Sunburst 4" was posted on this blog, and since then, fifteen people (plus one family) have successfully solved it:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Michael Lebowitz
• Stasi Gustafson
• Mike Armstrong
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Tyler Hinman
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!