PUZZLE #475
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 20
For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a person born in 1920
CENTERS
1) Greeting used in A. A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh stories
2) _____ al-Fitr (holiday that marks the end of Ramadan)
3) Green tube that the Super Mario Bros. travel through
4) Last word in the Bible or Biblical sermon
5) Counterpart to Down in some common word puzzles
6) Word following "Stone", "Iron", or "Bronze"
7) Cardinal direction not used in any U.S. state name
WHOLES
• _____ beaver (pumped-up person)
• Fungi that raise a lot of dough?
• Maryland's state team sport which involves sticks with scoops
• Montag from MTV's The Hills
• Oscar-winning duet by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
• Really regret
• Trademarked name for an adrenaline autoinjector
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!
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