PUZZLE #527
SUDOKUROSTIC 5
This puzzle type was suggested by Patron Grant Fikes. Normally, you can suggest a puzzle type of your own choice over on my Patreon page, but both slots are still full, so you might have to resort to PayPal if you still want to make a request of your own.
Below is supposed to be a sudoku/wordoku puzzle, but unfortunately, the whole grid is completely blank. To fill it in, solve the clues so that the answers fill out the dashes (one letter per dash), then transfer each letter to the grid according to the coordinates below each dash, like an anacrostic puzzle. For example, if the coordinates were "e6", then its corresponding letter should go in the square in row "e" and column "6". Not all of the grid's squares will ultimately be filled in, so it's up to you to complete the rest of the wordoku puzzle, making sure that each row, column, and 3x3 box contains the same nine unique letters without any repeats.
Once the grid has been completely filled, look through it like a word search to find the FINAL ANSWER: a noun that's at least six letters long
• Arabian Nights character who said "Open Sesame!": 2 wds.
__ __ __ __ __ __ __
f5 h4 b3 c9 h7 f3 b6
• Bryant who narrated the Oscar-winning animated short Dear Basketball
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e1 i1 d7 g5
• Controversial short video app that shares its name with a Kesha song
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e3 c5 d4 a7 e7 a2
• Made-up names for criminals
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e9 g3 a9 i3 b4 e6 d5
• "Taste the Rainbow" candy seen in the video game Darkened Skye
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g1 f7 e4 i8 f6 c7 d3 h6
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 links to two .PDF versions which you can print out!
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