PUZZLE #508
FLOWER POWER 8
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!
The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.
Once you're done, look through the
adjacent numbered petals to find two
more words (going either clockwise or
counterclockwise), and combine them
both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The
name of an optical illusion
CLOCKWISE
1) New Agey auras
2) Quickly sped-through section of "The Alphabet Song"
3) Little bits, or letters in Ancient Greece
4) "¡Hasta _____!" (Spanish for "See you later!")
5) "Get _____ of yourself, man!": 2 wds.
6) Dull metallic thump
7) Like a barely audible sound
8) Material used for Beanie Babies and other stuffed toys
9) Soup stock
10) Libel and slander, for two
11) Sam who directed both Evil Dead II and Spider-Man 2
12) Act overdramatically
13) Swizzle _____
14) Burr played by Leslie Odom Jr. in Hamilton
15) Added to the staff
16) Sam Cooke song named after a Valentine's Day icon
17) Made a mosaic
18) One creating a leaf pile
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
1) Logically sound
2) Gave a thumbs-up to a post on Facebook, perhaps,
3) Implant firmly: Var.
4) Introvert
5) Bugattis, Ferraris, and Infinitis
6) Like anything that costs less than a dollar
7) Gives a severe whupping to with a whip
8) São _____, Brazil
9) Duck hunter's hideout
10) Part of an elm or an elephant
11) Hens' house
12) The Day the _____ Stood Still ('50s sci-fi film)
13) "Will 2K" rapper Will
14) The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy creator Maxwell (or molecule parts)
15) Caribbean country east of Jamaica
16) Sorceress from Greek myths who often turns her enemies into pigs
17) Titular dinosaur hunter from a 1997 Nintendo 64 game (answer hidden in ARTURO KENNY)
18) Mature like a melon
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!
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