PUZZLE #408
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 6
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!
Diagramless crosswords are solved by using the clues and their numbers to fill in the answers as well as the black squares. When completely filled in, the black squares in the grid will have diagonal symmetry, meaning that they'll look the same when rotated upside-down. As a help, the first number has already been placed in the grid.
Once everything's filled in, two of the across answers will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: A person's name.
ACROSS
1) Perlman who won four Emmys for acting on Cheers
5) Fend (off)
10) Track & _____ (Olympic-themed NES video game)
11) Word before "bear" or "vortex"
12) Seasoning herbs of the mint family
13) Breed of Hachikō, a very loyal dog immortalized with a bronze statue in Japan
14) Split from a country, like South Sudan did in 2011
15) "...Kissed the girls and made them _____" (nursery rhyme lyrics)
16) PART ONE OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
19) British songstress Rita
20) "Turn to Stone" band, for short
21) Numeric online addresses, for short
24) Flowing waterway crossed in the "Fox, chicken, and grain" puzzle
27) Journalists' workspace where The Mary Tyler Moore Show is set
30) Relating to birds (or bird-like anthropomorphic characters)
31) 19th-century soldier dressed in gray
32) Installment of Inc., e.g.
33) His song "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" hit #1 in 1977
35) Pinball machine manufacturer whose name is a synonym for "strict"
36) Beats by _____ (brand of expensive headphones)
37) Prefix for "corn" or "cycle"
38) Post-op stop
39) PART TWO OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
45) Intelligent primate from George of the Jungle named after his own species
46) Groups in some essential acids found in proteins
47) Playable Mario Party Superstars character with a green hat
50) Like the color of straw or blonde hair
51) Find common ground
52) Brown, Dartmouth, and Harvard, for three
53) Sears slightly
54) Hair-stiffening goops
DOWN
1) The Dark Knight _____ (film directed by Christopher Nolan)
2) Children's novel about a girl in the Alps living with her grumpy grandpa
3) First name of Ripley from Alien (1979)
4) Online annoyances that can be blocked in Firefox with extensions
5) Captain Jack added to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in 2006
6) City where the statue mentioned in 13-Across's clue is located
7) Baba who encountered forty thieves
8) Cauldron
9) Significant stretch of time
10) Two-_____ (coin-flipping comic book villain)
12) Manner of conduct
14) Gave it one's all
15) People person, for short
17) Last name of Bobby from Bobby's World (EASIER CLUE: Not brand-name)
18) "_____ World Problems" (Weird Al song with lyrics like "There's a pixel out in the corner of my laptop screen")
19) Type of exam with no writing
22) Greek equivalent of the Roman sea god Neptune
23) What statements marked with "[citation needed]" need
25) Let up on the difficulty
26) Genetic material hidden in the word "fingernails"
28) Bro's sib, sometimes
29) Drop-down _____ (list of options in a computer program)
31) Zellweger with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
34) Materialistic characters in American Psycho or Wall Street, for example
40) Impatient, like a beaver?
41) Bisect
42) Message sent to itsredhead64@gmail.com, perhaps
43) Blends ingredients
44) Addition column to the right of the tens
47) French word for a body of water smaller than a sea
48) "Blecch!"
49) Rosemary's Baby author Levin
50) _____ Newtons
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!
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