Monday, October 23, 2023

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!

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