Redhead64's Obscure Puzzle Blog!: ANSWERS: Anacrossword 5

Sunday, September 8, 2024

ANSWERS: Anacrossword 5

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Anacrossword 5" was posted on this blog, and nineteen people have solved it since then:

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

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

ANSWERS (in order): Audience, Bewitched, Exclamation, Fiesta, Frisks, Goonies, Leprechaun, Oafish, Oleander, Phasers, Relapse, Rosters, Shakira, Shillelaghs, Silos, Stoat, Stool

The resulting sentence (with spaces added) reads THIS AUTHOR OF THE HUNGER GAMES BOOKS HAS ALSO WRITTEN EPISODES FOR THE NICKELODEON SERIES CLARISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL, and the answer to that is SUZANNE COLLINS

Solver Josie Giles said "I was pretty intimidated by the withholding of both enumerations and word spacing in the sentence, but I got 9 of the answers on the first pass, and crossed my fingers and put in 6 of them, which gave me enough fodder for my pattern recognition systems to see "This author of The Hunger Games". Phew! The rest slotted in easily."

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WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT, THEN?

Every week on Monday, I post a new puzzle for you guys to solve. Just send me the FINAL ANSWER to each puzzle within two weeks of its posting via email (redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com) and if it's right, you'll win bragging rights and a place on the solvers list. Sometimes, I might even give away some prizes on some puzzles! Starting with puzzle #329, you can even ask for as many hints as you want from me, but you'll get a mark noting that you did so next to your name on the solvers' list.

From May 2015 until the very end of March 2021, I had made use of a "hint star" system: Each potential solver starts out with four "hint stars" that will go next to their name on the solvers list, and if you would like help on solving the puzzle (be it an alternate clue or a nudge towards a right answer or something like that), you can email me using the same email addresses that you use to send me the FINAL ANSWER, and I'll provide you with a hint as quickly as I can, but at the expense of one of those stars. So someone who solved it after two hints will get two stars next to their name, while someone who solved it with no hints gets all four stars next to their name when I post the solvers list.

Good luck, and happy solving!

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