PUZZLE #463: Dilly Dally 6

PUZZLE #463

DILLY DALLY 6

Happy Day Before Halloween, everyone! Apologies in advance that the Final Answer isn't 100% Halloween-related, but it is horror-themed, so it's still adjacent to the season! Read on to see what I'm talking about!

Each answer in the grid below consists of two words that both start with the same letter, like ASKING ABOUT. However, each clue's answer only makes up half of the phrase (either the first or second half), while the second half is in a separate list of clues, in random order. It's up to you to match up the answers from both lists to fill in each two-word phrase.

Once the grid has been filled out, hidden inside and going up, down, or diagonally will be the FINAL ANSWER: A slasher film from the 1980s whose name also consists of two words starting with the same letter.

NUMBERED WORDS

1) Utensil used with a Wendy's Frosty

2) Sunday service site

3) Member of a pro baseball team in San Francisco

4) Soft rock band that did "Baby I'm-a Want You"

5) Trick-_____ card games

6) Printed ad on a movie theater's wall

7) Fights like Floyd Mayweather Jr.

8) Suffix for "grind" or "gem"

9) Sherwood _____ (location with a statue of Robin Hood)

10) Multiplication symbol

11) The Stanley Cup, say

MISSING WORDS

• Artistic application included with Microsoft Windows

• As the World _____ (former CBS soap opera)

• Flavor of curved yellow Runts candies

• Like the Irish and Welsh languages

• Low washing machine setting

• Metal with the elemental symbol Ag

• Ozzy Osbourne's wife for over 40 years

• Paper marked on Election Day

• Preaching to the _____

• Skyscraper's story

• Toy vehicle from Tonka

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: Drop Tower 11

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Drop Tower 11" was posted on this blog, and an astounding nineteen people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Pavel Curtis
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Tamara Brenner
• Patrick Jordan
• Sam Levitin
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Perry Groot
• Mom
• Shannon Milbourne
• Lynn Sweeney
• David Millar
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #462: Mini-Marching Bands 7

PUZZLE #462

MINI-MARCHING BANDS 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 answers in this grid march both across the Rows and around the Bands. Each row contains two answers, clued in order. Their dividing point is for you to determine, except in Row 5, where the two answers are separated by a black square. The answers in each Band will be entered clockwise, starting at a lettered square (A-D) and ending in the space below that square. The dividing points in each band's string of words are also for you to determine. Each square will be used twice; once in a Row's word, and once in a Band's word.

Once you've filled everything in, read the letters on the diagonal dashed line for the FINAL ANSWER: The name of a physical puzzle

ROWS
1) Mathematical partner of mean and median

    Spinning shop class machine

2) Peel a plum, perhaps

    "I was at the movie theater", for one

3) Booker T. & the _____ ("Green Onions" group)

    Comes afterward, like hilarity

4) The Bad News Bears actress Tatum

    Shopping icon on Mercari

5) Round cracker made by Nabisco

    Spanish word that's the opposite of "baja" (which means "short" or "low", so you know)

6) "Little" mouse from E. B. White's first children's book

    OB/_____

7) Red resident of Sesame Street who's always 3 1⁄2 years old

    Kix, Trix, or Twix, for one

8) Act like a hummingbird or helicopter

    Someone whose pants are on fire?

9) Pace product

    Segment of a video game that you can try before you buy

BANDS

A) America's Next Top _____ (reality show created by Tyra Banks)

     Someone who might unironically say "There is no God!"

     Wife of Perseus in Greek mythology

     Symbols for spares, in bowling

     Frolic for fun

B) _____ 51 (mid-'90s arcade game where you shoot up aliens)

     Word that Franklin D. Roosevelt is facing on a dime

     Emery file target

     Disgusting, like a rebellion?

C) Erotic

     Greta who played Mata Hari in Mata Hari (1931)

     Silence someone on Zoom

D) Former prison that once had Machine Gun Kelly as an inmate

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: Snake Charmer 7

It's been close to two weeks since "Snake Charmer 7" was posted on this blog, and seventeen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Steve Gunter
• Michael Lebowitz
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tamara Brenner
• Perry Groot
• Shannon Milbourne

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #461: Drop Tower 11

PUZZLE #461

DROP TOWER 11

Starting with an 8-letter word on top of the "tower", drop one letter and rearrange the rest to form a 7-letter word. Continue this process until only a 2-letter word remains. Since the tower is completely blank, use the randomly-ordered clues to figure out the words that go in each row.

Once the grid is completely filled in, look inside it for this week's FINAL ANSWER: a six-letter word that can be read going down and in a straight diagonal line.

CLUES

• Arc _____ Triomphe (Parisian landmark)

• Dating app that has you swiping right or left

• Fur color of Knuckles from Sonic the Hedgehog 3

• Kind of eatery where Jenna works at in the musical Waitress

• Mario who was the first European to win the Daytona 500

• Roll-O-Plane, Tilt-A-Whirl, or any other amusement park attraction

• Type of spear wielded by Aquaman

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: Edges of Glory 3

It's been almost two weeks since "Edges of Glory 3" was posted on this blog, which means that it's time for me to reveal the names of everyone who has solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Kevin Orfield
• Perry Groot
• Sam Levitin
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• KeoFam
• Wendy Walker
• Tamara Brenner
• Shannon Milbourne
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter
• Joe Bernard

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #460: Snake Charmer 7

PUZZLE #460

SNAKE CHARMER 7

Enter the answers to each clue in the grid, starting in the correspondingly-numbered space and ending in the space before the next consecutive number. The chain of answer words will overlap itself, winding their way twice around the snake-shaped grid.

Once you've filled in the grid, unscramble the green squares to get the FINAL ANSWER: An eight-letter word

1) Actor Kurt who played Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981)

2) Word preceding "Cross" or "Comfort"

3) Disney+ series that acts as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

4) Second earthquake following a much larger one

5) Facial part often raised by Stephen Colbert

6) Combine _____ (farming machine)

7) Recharge one's batteries, so to speak

8) Marketplace in central Venice

9) Dragon Ball Z character named after the highest-pitched woodwind

10) Charles _____ Reilly (regular panelist on Match Game)

11) Stubborn stuff to scour

12) Dubstep musician whose single "First of the Year (Equinox)" went platinum

13) "Funny bone" that also sounds funny

14) Trades passion and artistry for money: 2 wds.

15) First name of the Spanish explorer that the DeSoto car company was named after

16) Roof supports

17) Sport for the Seattle Kraken

18) Longest river entirely inside Spain (anagram of BORE)

19) Piers

20) One of the letters in "E.T."

21) Message board thread

22) Mustard's rank in Clue

23) Eurovision _____ Contest

24) LeAnn who won the "Best New Artist" Grammy in 1997

25) Tiny crustaceans swallowed whole by whales

26) Dig up from a grave

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: Pieces of Nine 11

It's been about two weeks since "Pieces of Nine 11" was posted on this blog, so now's the time for me to list the names of all nineteen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Perry Groot
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• KeoFam
• Shannon Milbourne
• Steve Gunter
• Tamara Brenner
• Sam Levitin
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Al Sisti
• Mom
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #459: Edges of Glory 3

PUZZLE #459

EDGES OF GLORY 3

There are several squares divided into four triangles each, plus a grid to fit them all into. First, fill in the squares with the 4-letter answers to each corresponding clue, starting with the numbered triangle, and going clockwise. Then, fit all of the filled-out squares into the grid below (without rotating them) so that wherever two squares touch along one of the heavy lines, the letters on both sides of the line are the same.

Once everything's in its proper place, the outer edges of the grid, when read clockwise, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: The name of an animated movie

1) 1/100th of a dollar

2) "____ Suey!" (System of a Down song that has nothing to do with Chinese food)

3) Parka or puffer jacket, say

4) Peppy from Star Fox 64, for one (HINT: He's not a rabbit, though he looks like one)

5) Friends character played by Matt LeBlanc who got his own short-lived spin-off

6) Word preceding "Gaga" or "Godiva"

7) _____ Jojo (Powerpuff Girls villain who has a rhyming name and a repetitive speech pattern)

8) Like one's mouth filled with Novocain

9) Victoria Beckham's nickname in the Spice Girls

10) Rolls out some new lawn

11) Woefully short Wikipedia article

12) Garb for a sharp-dressed businessman

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: Empty Word Ladder 3

It's been nearly two weeks since "Empty Word Ladder 3" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have correctly solved it, all of whom are listed below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Dave Currin
• Pavel Curtis
• Chris Kochmanski
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Shannon Milbourne
• Wendy Walker
• Tamara Brenner
• Perry Groot
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!