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.
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!
• 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!
PLEASE MAKE A WEBSITE FOR SOLVING BRANCHING OUT PUZZLES, THIS ONE'S SO HARD!
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