PUZZLE #555
NONPLUSSED 4
The answers in this puzzle are entered in two ways: the fifteen numbered rows have one or two answers that read left to right (even the two rows that only have one letter in it), and the plusses have five-letter answers that read left to right beginning in the top row (exactly like how they're entered in Pent Words). The clues for the plusses are split up into two groups: white plusses and gray plusses. Answers to those clues should be placed in their respectively-colored plus, though you have to use the Rows' answers to find out where each plus answer is located.
There are two unclued rows in this puzzle; combine them to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a two-word military phrase
ROWS
1) Vowel that acts as the pseudonym for Pretty Little Liars' blackmailing villain
2) No _____, no fuss
3) Win back one's losses
4) THE FIRST HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
5) The View co-host Joy who voiced Sid the Sloth's mom in Ice Age: Continental Drift
Rule Rhode Island, maybe
6) Raised fingerprint part
Not chemically inert
7) Poplar part that falls in the fall
Animated series set in the 31st century that spawned the phrase "Shut up and take my money!"
8) Add to, as a robotic build
It is I (on the periodic table, at least)
9) Bruce Springsteen album with "Hungry Heart": 2 wds.
NBC's peacock, CBS's eye, or ABC's lowercase "abc" in a ball, e.g.
10) Semester-ending test
Pillar carved by many tribes of the Pacific Northwest: 2 wds.
11) Word that can usually be pluralized
Party board game "for your Whole Brain" with art by cartoonist Gary Baseman
12) THE SECOND HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
13) A quart has 32 of these fluid units
14) Word preceding "five", "flying", and "fidelity"
15) To a ___ (quirky video game where you play a teen stuck in the shape of the 20th letter)
WHITE PLUSSES
• Get a smile out of
• _____ of Frankenstein (Universal monster movie where Elsa Lanchester plays the title role)
• Networking company founded in San Fran (or what's missing from "San Fran")
• "Ouchless" bandage brand
• Number of bits used in an original Apple II computer
• Rock type Pokémon named after a clay creature from Jewish folklore
• Taz-_____ ('90s Warner Bros. cartoon that's a pun on an Australian island)
• Be deserving of
• German cosmetics company
• Chicago airport not named "Midway"
• Penguin from The Backyardigans (or cubist Picasso)
• Member of an NFL team that plays home games in Houston's NRG Stadium
• Make knots not be knots anymore
GRAY PLUSSES
• Tennis Hall of Famer Chris who won the US Open four times in a row
• Social faux pas
• _____ white shark (fish such as Jabberjaw)
• Gut feeling
• "Live, _____, Love" (slogan commonly found on home decor from the 2010s)
• Sal who got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Rebel Without a Cause
• Pitcher's hill
• Deck in the Obra Dinn ship from Return of the Obra Dinn (answer hidden in DOCTOR LOPEZ)
• Swiss/French river with a circumflex (^) in its name
• Scrub with a Brillo pad
• Hard-to-control impulses
• Person picking a politician to elect
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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