PUZZLE #525
COMPOUND CROSSWORDS 11
Fit the words hinted at by the clues into the nine grids below so that the two words in each grid combine to create a two-word phrase or compound word. There may be multiple possibilities for these phrases, but there's only one way that all the words will fit in all of the grids.
Once each grid is filled out, the pink letters in each grid will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a compound word
CLUES
• 2010 indie film about a living car tire on a killing spree (or what a car tire's made of)
• Bean-shaped organ that filters blood
• Breathes like a tired terrier
• Chicago _____ Sox
• Emma who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Poor Things
• Fast, like the brown fox that jumps over the lazy dog
• Installed on the wall, as a painting
• Judge, _____, and executioner
• NBA player from Milwaukee
• Part of CBS or GPS
• Restaurant chain that once offered $5 footlongs
• Rock _____ 2 (2008 video game where you can play guitar, drums, or vocals)
• Royal residency that you try to hit in the pinball game Medieval Madness
• Sir Hiss from Disney's Robin Hood, for one
• Stephen who wrote The Running Man under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
• _____-Sun (pouched juice brand)
• Tsuyu from My Hero Academia has all the powers of this hopping amphibian
• "U Got the Look" singer
Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, 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!
