PUZZLE #516
CHAIN REACTION: EXTRA LINKS 12
For this puzzle, there are seven golden "links" that link together six
two-word phrases when reading down. However, it's completely blank, save for
some dashes that reveal how long each word is (four dashes translate to a
four-letter word, for instance). To help you figure out these words, though,
there are some extra silver links with words already in them which, when
combined with the golden link to the left or right of it, make another
two-word phrase. In the above example, the two-word phrases with silver links
in them are "Chain Restaurants", "Gut Reaction", "Time Zone", and "Fruit
Flies", so the final "golden chain" is "CHAIN - REACTION - TIME - FLIES".
Once you've completely filled in the chain, scramble the letters in the
orange squares to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter word.
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!
