PUZZLE #518: Eat Your Words 10

PUZZLE #518

EAT YOUR WORDS 10

In this puzzle, the words hinted at by the numbered clues (The "Numbered Words") can "eat" a word hinted at by a different set of clues (The "Eaten Words") without rearranging any of the letters. For example, the word BIT can eat the word AND to form BANDIT. All of the new words are entered into the grid in the order of the Numbered Words, and the Eaten Words are in no particular order.

Once all of the new words have been placed, the letters in the highlighted third column will spell out two more words. Insert one of the column's new words into the other to get the FINAL ANSWER: A first name or a last name

NUMBERED WORDS

1) New England fishes

2) Number of thieves that Ali Baba came across

3) Animal in a cattle drive whose name is also a synonym for "drive"

4) "It Ain't Over _____ It's Over" (Lenny Kravitz single)

5) Piece of jewelry worn by winners of the MLB's World Series

6) Musical symbol that looks like a lowercase "b"

7) Conjunction in many law firm names

8) Do as directed

EATEN WORDS

• Actor Wallach from the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven

• It's good for absolutely nothing, according to a hit Edwin Starr song

• Landlocked African country with Timbuktu

• _____ McBeal (former Fox show starring Calista Flockhart)

• Part of "TMI" or "FYI", but shortened

• Place one's posterior on a park bench, perhaps

• Recoils (away from)

• Washing the dishes or taking out the trash, 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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MGb8VlhIyUH_On21ckdmfogbx-RekxWX/view?usp=sharing