Monday, October 9, 2023

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!

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