Monday, August 19, 2024

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!

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