PUZZLE #520: Loopy Links 2

PUZZLE #520

LOOPY LINKS 2

All of the answers in this puzzle weave through the grid in a single long chain via a series of straight lines and right-angled turns. Each square is used once except where the answers link together in squares with circles in them, each serving as the last letter of one answer and the first letter of the next. The letters in these circled squares are blank and for you to fill in. The chain begins and ends in squares that have letters already filled in.

Once you've solved this puzzle, the circled letters (when read left to right starting at the topmost row) will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: a proper name

1) Reptilian movie monster with an atomic breath attack

2) Pop rock duo that sang "Potential Breakup Song": 3 wds.

3) Girl Scout gathering

4) Clint _____ (actor who played Dirty Harry five times)

5) Philadelphia university that The Gong Show host Chuck Barris graduated from

6) Like an elaborate banquet with food galore

7) Sophisticated, like some arthouse fare

8) Tootsie Roll's covering

9) _____ & Isles (2010s crime drama that aired on TNT)

10) Asthmatic's aid

11) Judy Hopps from Zootopia, e.g.

12) Perforated reward for getting a high score on Skee-Ball, perhaps

13) Robberies

14) _____ to change (may be different later on)

15) Stretchy, sleeveless shirt: 2 wds.

16) Face-covering game for babies: Hyph.

17) The Three Tenors tune whose name is Italian for "My Sunshine": 3 wds.

18) With "The", Homeric epic that O Brother, Where Art Thou? was loosely based on

19) Japan's second-most populated city (after Tokyo)

20) Flight display by the Blue Angels, for one: 2 wds.

21) A _____ in Time (Madeleine L'Engle book)

22) Shouts something like "Holy smokes!"

23) Illegible doodle

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/1UM_KkhJOYOrfil0pB1c6FMaYwJ0Wp9U4/view?usp=sharing