Monday, October 7, 2024

PUZZLE #512: Lucky Sevens 14

PUZZLE #512
LUCKY SEVENS 14

Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.

Once you've filled in the grid, the letters in the colored squares (in the order of the Sevens that they appear in, starting with the Seven marked with a 1) will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: A seven-letter word associated with video games


ROWS
i) First word in Iowa's most populated city
ii) Mai _____ (alcoholic drinks)
iii) "Golden Age of Hollywood" icon Clark
iv) Someone who joined Sam's Club, say
v) Assign to a job
vi) Snow-White's sister in a fairy tale that has just one dwarf (not seven): Hyph.
vii) More massive
viii) Cereal with flavored pieces such as Raspberry Red and Orangey Orange
ix) Pimple
x) Decisive victory in the boxing video game Punch-Out!!: Abbr.
xi) Letter on the cover of Sue Grafton's final alphabet-themed mystery novel

SEVENS
1) Wayne who was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame the same year he retired
2) Actress Dawson who voiced Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie
3) Bon _____ (French phrase meaning "Enjoy your meal")
4) Former cassette tape manufacturer that went bankrupt in 1996
5) More talkative
6) Rearmost part: 2 wds.
7) Baked Alaska or Mississippi mud pie, e.g.

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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