Monday, June 23, 2025

PUZZLE #549: Deck It Out 10

PUZZLE #549
DECK IT OUT 10

Fill in the answers to the clues below, then transfer the letters marked with playing card symbols to their proper places in the grid below. The number (or letter) of each clue will tell you what column to place those letters in. Once it's completely filled in, the grid will spell out a sentence that will provide a hint to the FINAL ANSWER.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is a proper noun


A) Spelunking site mentioned in the lyrics to "Clementine"
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           ♣   ♦   
2) Sealing ring that’s metaphorically blown when one gets really angry
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    ♦          ♠   
3) Pro baseball team humorously nicknamed the "Motor City Kitties"
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        ♠   ♣          
4) Resident of Mumbai
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5) A bit burned
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              ♠       
6) Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (anagram of OAK ASH)
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                     ♠      
7) Little Jack Horner sat in one
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           ♠          
8) Manufacturer of the Tacoma and Tundra trucks
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    ♠              ♣   
9) "Weird", "beard", and "cleared", for three
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        ♠          ♣   
10) Top 5 Matchbox Twenty hit that’s also a synonym for "ill"
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    ♠                 ♣
J) Pixar movie featuring two blue-skinned elf brothers
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                  ♠   
Q) Fern leaves
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    ♥                 
K) Scribble aimlessly
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    ♣             

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!

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