ANSWERS: Networds

Roughly two weeks have gone by since my first "Networds" puzzle was posted onto this blog, and a whopping twenty people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Patrick Jordan
• Tamara Brenner
• Mom
• Spheniscine
• Stasi Gustafson
• Lynn Sweeney
• Chris Kochmanski
• Alex Milton
• Tower

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #497: Link-Letters 13

PUZZLE #497

LINK-LETTERS 13

There are two clues for each numbered row. The answers to each row's first clue go in the squares to the left of the first black bar in each correspondingly numbered row in the puzzle's grid, and the answers to the second clue go into the squares to the right of the second black bar. Then a single letter (the "Link-Letter") goes in the square in the middle to complete a single word that reads all the way across. For example, if the two words are CON and ACT, you can put a "T" between them to get CONTACT.

Once you've filled out all eight rows, the central letters will spell out two words reading down. Add a letter between those two words in the red square to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of an animated film

1) Breathe heavily like a basset hound

    Indefinitely long time period

2) Bon _____ (witty remark)

    Shape on the Swedish and Swiss flags

3) Ailment common in winter

    Any amusement park attraction built in RollerCoaster Tycoon

4) Cheshire Cat's smile

    Pit of a plum or peach

5) One of too many limbs on a millipede

    Grayish blue hue (or an online magazine launched in 1996)

6) Pleasant scent

    Preceder of "Tac" or "Tac Toe"

7) Member of a Minnesota baseball team

    _____ Misérables

8) Black cat from various Tom and Jerry cartoons (or the Sundance Kid's partner)

    Video doorbell company named after a doorbell sound

9) The Da Vinci Code author Brown

    Dennis the Menace's dog

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!

ANSWERS: Chain Reaction: Branching Out 5

It's been almost two weeks since "Chain Reaction: Branching Out 5" was posted on this blog. That's one of my harder puzzle types, but fifteen of you still managed to successfully figure it out:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Tamara Brenner
• Sam Levitin
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Chris Kochmanski
• Lynn Sweeney
• Michael Lebowitz
• Stasi Gustafson

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #496: Networds

PUZZLE #496

NETWORDS

This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Support me on Patreon at $25 per month to suggest any puzzle type of your choice every month!

Write one or more letters in each circle so that, when the circles adjacent to each picture are taken in some order (not necessarily in a clockwise or counterclockwise cycle around the picture), they spell out the word represented by the picture. Do not rearrange the letters in each individual circle to spell the word, and don’t intermix letters between circles. Each circle is adjacent to two or more pictures, so use the letters the words have in common to determine how to divide each word’s letters between its circles. As a help, an already solved sample puzzle has been provided above these directions.

Once all the circles have been filled in, rearrange the groups of letters in the highlighted yellow circles to get the FINAL ANSWER: a verb associated with science fiction

All artwork done by me

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!

ANSWERS: Semicircle Sorting 6

It's been almost two weeks since "Semicircle Sorting 6" was posted on this blog, and a whopping nineteen people have solved it since then:

• M. Sean Molley
• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Tamara Brenner
• Chris Kochmanski
• Cathy Bowen
• Mom
• Sam Levitin
• KeoFam
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• Stasi Gustafson
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #495: Chain Reaction: Branching Out 5

PUZZLE #495

CHAIN REACTION: BRANCHING OUT 5

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!

First, find the answers to the clues, which are listed in alphabetical order of their answers. The bracketed numbers at the end of each clue are the lengths of each answer. Then, place the answers into the white boxes in the diagram below (leave the pink box alone for now) so that reading right, each pair of boxes that are connected with a line create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit together.

The FINAL ANSWER is the five-letter television term that goes in the pink box to create three more two-word phrases.

• Greeting from someone celebrating "Talk Like a Pirate Day" [4]

• Not at home, on a soccer schedule [4]

• Wedding rings, or wedding musicians [5]

• Fill in the _____ [5]

• U2's debut album (or the opposite of "Girl") [3]

• Audio format that may have "Side A" and "Side B" labels [8]

• The Hot Seat on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, for one [5]

• TV show where Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox play motorbiking cops [5]

• Pack of 78 tarot cards [4]

• Collectible Pez container [9]

• Candy Land or Candy Crush, say [4]

• Body part in the Thinking Face emoji (which isn't on the face) [4]

• "_____ Talkin'" (#1 hit for the Bee Gees) [4]

• Figure out an item's length or weight, maybe [7]

• Warped reflector in a carnival funhouse [6]

• One of the letters in "CFO" or "CEO" [7]

• Aim an index finger at [5]

• Pointy tool near a fireplace [5]

• 2008 movie where Liam Neeson's character has "a very particular set of skills" [5]

• Scotch _____ (adhesive brand from Minnesota, not Scotland) [4]

• R&B singer Stevie with 25 Grammys [6]

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!

ANSWERS: Touchword

It's been about two weeks since my first "Touchword" puzzle was posted on this blog, and eighteen people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Josie Giles
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Sam Levitin
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Patrick Jordan
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tamara Brenner
• Cathy Bowen
• Chris Kochmanski

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #494: Semicircle Sorting 6

PUZZLE #494

SEMICIRCLE SORTING 6

Below are 12 semicircles, each containing three or four letters. Your job is to combine them all into six circles so that a common word (either 6, 7, or 8 letters long) can be read either clockwise or counterclockwise in each circle. However, in order to do that, six of the semicircles need to be rotated 180° upside down so that they can be correctly matched up with the remaining six semicircles.

Once all of the circles have been solved, select two of the resulting words and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: the two-word name of a magazine

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!

ANSWERS: Squeezed in the Middle 21

It's been nearly two weeks since "Squeezed in the Middle 21" was posted on this blog, and a whopping nineteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• M. Sean Molley
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• Tower
• Chris Kochmanski
• Michael Lebowitz
• Tamara Brenner
• KeoFam
• Pavel Curtis
• Patrick Jordan
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Wendy Walker
• Lynn Sweeney

Now head below the break for the answers!