PUZZLE #485
INSIDERS 3
Happy April 1st, everyone! Sadly, I don't have any sort of prank or wacky word puzzle variant (such as "Anacrossword 3" from five years ago) to offer this year, but the FINAL ANSWER to this puzzle is April Fools'-adjacent! Read on for more details on that!
Each row in this puzzle consists of two answers, clued in the order in which they appear. Going across both of these answers is a third word, known as an "Inner Word". For example, if a row's two answers were JETSAM and PLEA, then the Inner Word for that string of letters would be SAMPLE (like so: JETSAMPLEA). The Inner Words are listed in no particular order, and shading them or crossing them out in each row is highly recommended.
Once everything's been filled in, all of the letters not used in the Inner Words, when read left to right and row by row, will spell out a clue to the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a classic April Fools' Day prank
ROWS
1) Image uploaded to Instagram
Parka-wearing South Park character who has died over 100 times
2) Shine like a nursery rhyme star
Heavy metal singer Zombie who directed 2007's Halloween remake
3) Approach aggressively
"With the bow", to a violinist (anagram of ORCA)
4) Innocent until _____ guilty
Like the top of an éclair
5) Prefix for "brow" or "corn"
Amass, like video games or postage stamps
6) Resident of a country formerly known as Siam
Rubber _____ (adhesive known as "cow gum" in Britain)
7) Airship that Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Award is shaped like
Provide funding for a foundation
8) Any possible perpetrator in Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Weightlifting unit
INNER WORDS
• Coin once used to play arcade games at Chuck E. Cheese's
• Former The View panelist and current MSNBC commentator Wallace
• Henry who played The Fonz on Happy Days
• Italy's "City of Canals"
• James Bond film where Christoph Waltz first plays Blofeld
• Loom on the horizon
• Old-timey deliverers of blocks to be used in old-timey fridges
• Someone sharing top billing
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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