PUZZLE #506: Anacrossword 5

PUZZLE #506

ANACROSSWORD 5

This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Normally, you can suggest a puzzle type of your own choice over on my Patreon page, but both slots are full at the moment, so you might have to resort to PayPal if you still want to make a request of your own.

Solve the clues below and transfer their answers into the crossword grid. Then, transfer the letters in the filled numbered squares to each of the correspondingly numbered dashes. Work back and forth between the crossword and the numbered dashes until the crossword is filled and the dashes read out a legible sentence.

Once you're done with everything, the sentence will spell out a hint to the FINAL ANSWER: a person's name.

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​01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
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41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
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61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
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81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97

CLUES
• Ask the _____ (Lifeline on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)

• '60s sitcom where the role of Darrin was played by two different actors named Dick

• Type of point at the end of this sentence!

• Spanish word for “party”

• Pats down like a TSA agent

• With "The", 1985 adventure film with characters named Chunk, Data, and Sloth

• The Boston Celtics' mascot, for one

• Like a loutish lummox

• Poisonous shrub with white flowers

• Futuristic firearms for Kirk and Spock

• Rehabber's reversal (or an Eminem album)

• Sports team lineups

• "Whenever, Wherever" singer who voiced Gazelle in Zootopia

• Irish clubs which are really difficult to spell

• Cylindrical crop containers

• Alternate name for the Eurasian ermine

• _____ pigeon (informant)

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: Honeycomb 6

It's been almost two weeks since "Honeycomb 6" was posted on this blog, and an astounding twenty people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #505: Dial Tunes 5

PUZZLE #505

DIAL TUNES 5

First, answer as many of the numbered clues as you can and enter them into the first grid. Each clue ends with an arrow indicating the direction its answer should be entered: from top to bottom [↓], from bottom to top [↑], or even either way [↕]. For example, if the answers were JIB [↓], IRE [↓], SAD [↑], EVE [↕], AT [↑], and O [↕], you would enter them like this:

Next, try to decode the message (in the form of song lyrics) by replacing every circled letter with another letter that shares the same number on a telephone keypad, which we've provided on top of these directions (for example, B can be replaced by A or C). The decoded message should be entered into the second grid, as shown here (note that the bold vertical lines indicate divisions between words):

(From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

The FINAL ANSWER is the name of the song containing the decoded lyrics.

Place the answers to the following clues here

1) Only consonant used for a blood type [↕]

2) Bass _____ Shops (sporting retailer with a pyramid-shaped location in Memphis) [↑]

3) Ascots, cravats, and clip-ons [↓]

4) Cab that you drive in the 1994 computer game Quarantine [↑]

5) Type of "pit" at a rowdy punk rock concert [↑]

6) Antacid whose advertising jingle is to the tune of the Dragnet theme [↓]

7) Canadian First Nations tribe (answer hidden in DECREES) [↓]

8) '80s Tom Hanks movie with a wish-granting Zoltar machine [↓]

9) Alphabetically-first conjunction mentioned in "Conjunction Junction" [↑]

10) "A long time _____ in a galaxy far, far away...." [↓]

11) Like a fiddle, in an alliterative saying [↑]

12) Greek letter preceding Xi [↑]

13) Machine such as the Atari ST or Acer Aspire (which runs Windows) [↓]

Place the decoded lyrics here

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: Dilly Dally 7

It's been about two weeks since "Dilly Dally 7" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have successfully solved it since then, as you an see in the list below:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #504: Honeycomb 6

PUZZLE #504

HONEYCOMB 6

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!

Each six-letter word is to be entered clockwise or counterclockwise around the correspondingly numbered black cell, though the direction and starting point of each answer is for you to determine.

Once the grid has been filled out, the colored hexagons, when read either clockwise or counterclockwise (but not both at once), will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: the 6-letter name of a fictional character

1) Largest Native American tribe

2) Technical language that may make no sense to a layman

3) Second-to-last rainbow color

4) Relax after a hard day at work

5) Harold and the Purple _____ (children's book)

6) Takes pleasure in

7) Luncheon of the Boating Party painter Pierre-Auguste

8) The King of Queens actress and People Puzzler host Leah

9) Country that borders Mozambique and Zambia

10) Entertainer Miranda well-known for her fruit hats

11) Luxury boats perfect for listening to Christopher Cross's "Sailing" on

12) Black _____ cake (German dessert)

13) More promising

14) Whom Simple Simon met

15) Pacific cooling phenomenon whose name is Spanish for "The Girl": 2 wds.

16) High point, or a former TV manufacturer bought out by LG in 1999

17) Halloween Is _____ Night (Emmy-winning TV special featuring Dr. Seuss' green meanie)

18) Series of stairs

19) Very many: 2 wds.

20) Colt Mustang or Desert Eagle, for one

21) Not out of bounds, as a soccer ball: 2 wds.

22) Carelessly playing (with), like someone's feelings

23) Purple-maned fashionista pony from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (or something very uncommon)

24) _____ of error

25) Alfred who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004)

26) "Purring" parts of cars

27) In abundance

28) Bon _____, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) (1980 film)

29) Evening Shade star Henner

30) Season for "leaf peeping"

31) Isles from Rizzoli & Isles, and other namesakes

32) Trap also known as a "deer-leap" (HINT: Despite its name, it has nothing to do with pepper's partner)

33) Sires, Biblically speaking

34) Freddi Fish's best friend in the Freddi Fish computer games (or the middle name of MLK)

35) Indisputable facts

36) The _____ Dodger (pickpocket from Oliver Twist)

37) Grownups

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: The Block List 6

It's been nearly two weeks since "The Block List 6" was posted on this blog, and an impressively high twenty people have solved it since then:

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

Now head below the break for the answers!

PUZZLE #503: Dilly Dally 7

PUZZLE #503

DILLY DALLY 7

Each answer in the grid below consists of two words that both start with the same letter, like ASKING ABOUT. However, each clue's answer only makes up half of the phrase (either the first or second half), while the second half is in a separate list of clues, in random order. It's up to you to match up the answers from both lists to fill in each two-word phrase.

Once the grid has been filled out, hidden inside and going up, down, or diagonally will be the FINAL ANSWER: A television show from the 2000s whose name also consists of two words starting with the same letter.

NUMBERED WORDS

1) Opposite (anagram of SEVERIN)

2) Inviting greeting from a doormat

3) Surface for a game of Scrabble

4) Cloud _____ (service provided by Dropbox and Google Drive)

5) Rock trio whose "Sunshine of Your Love" was covered in Guitar Hero III

6) Red Dawn, Red Sonja, or Turning Red, for one

7) Bison that used to be on the back of a nickel

8) Anti-smoking aid which you stick onto your arm

9) Part of FDIC or FBI

10) Purple flavor of Crush soda

11) The Umbrella _____ (Netflix series starring Elliot Page)

12) It's to the left of the "Z" key on a keyboard

MISSING WORDS

• Backs a successful campaign on Kickstarter, perhaps

• "Beastly" energy drink brand

• Ducks' beaks

• Earthshaking, literally

• Gottfried who voiced Mr. Mxyzptlk in Superman: The Animated Series

• Gourd that turns into a coach for Cinderella

• _____ Invaders (classic alien-shooting arcade game)

• Radio Flyer toy

• Spitting _____ (exact likeness)

• Sticky stuff inside a Rolo

• The Tony for Best Scenic Design of a Play, say

• Tightrope walker's skill

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: Pieces of Nine 12

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Pieces of Nine 12" was posted onto this blog, and eighteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cathy Bowen
• Cindy Heisler
• Kevin Orfield
• Josie Giles
• Mike Armstrong
• Michael Lebowitz
• Sam Levitin
• Chris Kochmanski
• Wendy Walker
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Jake Weaver
• Stasi Gustafson
• Tamara Brenner
• Lynn Sweeney
• Steve Gunter
• Derek Allen

Now head below the break for the answers!