PUZZLE #492
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 21
One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word or phrase 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!
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 long-running television series
CENTERS
1) Awfully adorable, like anything that the Japanese call "kawaii"
2) Plan (to)
3) Pirate ship's steering mechanism
4) Struggle for superiority
5) Video game publisher of Asteroids and Alone in the Dark: Inferno
6) Drowned river valley
7) Word preceding "resort" or "hurrah"
8) "_____-la-laaaa!!!" (Captain Underpants' singsongy catchphrase)
WHOLES
• Developer of the video games Metroid: Zero Mission and F-Zero
• Like the walls at Wrigley Field
• Louise's road trip buddy in a 1991 film
• More sharp, as an angle
• Mr. Heep the clerk from David Copperfield
• Residents of a Middle Eastern country with a maroon and white flag
• Stretchy, in product names
• "Turkey in the _____" (folk song)
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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