PUZZLE #446
FLOWER POWER 7
The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.
Once you're done, look through the adjacent numbered petals to find two more words (going either clockwise or counterclockwise). These words make up the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a hit song from the 2000s and the musical act that recorded it
CLOCKWISE
1) Rowed a boat
2) _____ Canadian Mounted Police
3) Prickly patch in stories about Br'er Rabbit
4) Makes a run for it
5) Country that's home to the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum
6) Stenches
7) Mr. Heep who was created by Charles Dickens
8) Canines, but not felines
9) Kris _____ (early '90s rap duo known for wearing backwards clothing)
10) How great minds think, so it's said
11) "Are you kidding me??", in textspeak
12) Having too much wordy dialogue, like a book or movie
13) It can be past, present, or future, in grammar class
14) Lowest low point
15) Any one of the titular men from the play Twelve Angry Men
16) Number of Star Spirits that Mario needs to rescue in Paper Mario
17) Weird Al's first parody of a Michael Jackson song: 2 wds.
18) First listed ingredient on a tub of Duncan Hines frosting
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
1) Word before "space" or "Mongolia"
2) _____ Cajun (roller coaster at Six Flags America with a rhyming name)
3) Sacha Baron Cohen character from Kazakhstan
4) Cooker in a fast food kitchen
5) Homeric epic set during the Trojan War
6) Former basketball player Jermaine or Shaquille (no relation)
7) Natural source of milk?
8) Number after deux
9) Bend It Like Beckham star Knightley
10) _____ of expertise
11) The slowest mammal in the world
12) "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store owner from The 40-Year-Old Virgin (anagram of SHIRT)
13) Items on a to-do list
14) Ronald Reagan's mother (HINT: Her name reverses to the name of actress Pompeo)
15) Malfunctioning, slangily
16) All lathered up
17) Synonym for "spooky" that's mostly vowels
18) Relish, as a relish-covered hot dog
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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