PUZZLE #552
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 8
This puzzle (suggested by Patron Grant Fikes) contains a word or phrase suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!
Once everything's filled in, two of the across answers will spell out a clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: A person's name.
ACROSS
1) Warty amphibian such as Slippy from Star Fox: Assault
5) With "The", Hope van Dyne's superhero identity in Marvel movies
9) Currency for Greece
10) Actress Kendrick from the Pitch Perfect trilogy
11) Striped feline in the Chinese zodiac
12) Traffic signals
14) Lead singer of the Holograms in a very 1980s cartoon
17) PART ONE OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
19) Bearded bovine on Wyoming's state flag
20) "Finally, it's over!": 2 wds.
21) "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" band (or a birthday dessert)
22) Les États-_____ (French for "The United States")
23) Renewable energy source for rooftop panels
24) Win Ben _____'s Money (Comedy Central game show)
26) Flour factory
27) Handle hardship
28) Single-celled organism often seen in The Far Side comics
31) More cunning
33) PART TWO OF THE FINAL ANSWER'S CLUE
37) Learn the _____ and outs of something
38) Utterly lacking in logic
39) They can't handle telling the truth
40) Famed '50s Cleveland Browns quarterback Graham
41) "Behold!", in ancient Rome
42) Vowelless version of "Hey! Over here!"
43) A fortnight has fourteen of these
DOWN
1) Supermodel Crissy who married John Legend in 2013
2) You _____ to Be in Pictures (Looney Tunes short combining animation and live action)
3) "Chain of Fools" singer Franklin
4) English county on the English Channel (anagram of SORTED)
5) "Clean" word following "brain" or "mouth"
6) Pay to play poker
7) Grew uncontrollably (especially in winter?)
8) 2006 anime film featuring devices that let people enter dreams (or a spice made of red peppers)
11) Retired MMA fighter Ortiz
13) Not a winner
14) Richie Cunningham's kid sister in Happy Days
15) Red dye (answer hidden in TEOSINTE)
16) NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.
18) Architectural schematics
21) Orange, green, and purple are secondary ones
23) _____ & Schuster (publishing house)
24) Genre that the magazine Amazing Stories specializes in: Hyph.
25) Simplest figure skating jump: 2 wds.
26) Country north of Burkina Faso
29) Made water hot enough to bubble
30) Continent with the answer to 26-Down
31) Doesn't hog all of one's toys, say
32) "_____ not and say we did"
34) Comic strip detective Dick known for his yellow hat and coat
35) Munches on macaroons, maybe
36) Coin opening in an arcade cabinet
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!
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