PUZZLE #478
CHESS WORDS 4
Eight 8-letter words are scrambled on the chessboard, all of which are the answers to the provided clues. Each chess piece starts on the first letter of one of the words, and can be moved across the board via standard chess moves to spell the rest of the word. Every square is used exactly once. The chess pieces move as follows:
King: one space in any of the eight directions
Rook: any number of spaces in a horizontal or vertical direction
Bishop: any number of spaces in a diagonal direction
Queen: any number of spaces in any of the eight directions
Knight: two spaces in a horizontal or vertical direction and then one space in a perpendicular direction
Once all the words have been found, read down the last letter of each filled-in word, in order, to get the FINAL ANSWER: an 8-letter word
Queen's Rook: B _ _ _ _ _ _ _
a1
Queen's Knight: G _ _ _ _ _ _ _
b1
Queen's Bishop: L _ _ _ _ _ _ _
c1
Queen: P _ _ _ _ _ _ _
d1
King: S _ _ _ _ _ _ _
e1
King's Bishop: M _ _ _ _ _ _ _
f1
King's Knight: T _ _ _ _ _ _ _
g1
King's Rook: H _ _ _ _ _ _ _
h1
CLUES
• Bothersome bloodsucker
• Dessert whose name is Italian for "pick me up"
• Fall guy who's miles high
• Goliath, Brooklyn, or Demona from a ‘90s Disney series, say
• Noontime container
• One way to cause a trance
• Paper tract
• Trendy (yet meaningless) business term
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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