PUZZLE #562
FLOWER POWER 9
The answers to this petaled puzzle will go in a curve from the number on the outside to the center of the flower. Each number in the flower will have two 5-letter answers, one going in a clockwise direction, and the other going in a counterclockwise direction.
Once you're done, look through the
adjacent numbered petals to find two
more words (going either clockwise or
counterclockwise), and combine them
both to get the FINAL ANSWER: The
name of a flowering plant
CLOCKWISE
1) Hawaiian island or a Hawaiian patio
2) "_____ Mind Set on You" (George Harrison song): 2 wds.
3) Complete beginners in online games, slangily
4) Villain from Othello and Jafar's parrot from Aladdin, for two
5) Japanese camera brand used by Veronica Mars
6) Herbie _____ Again (1974 sequel to The Love Bug)
7) Schindler who is buried in Jerusalem
8) Boxes of pre-prepared brownie ingredients
9) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Carroll
10) Body minus the head and limbs
11) Gets together, or events where runners get together
12) MTV hidden camera show that host Ashton Kutcher pretended to cancel after season 2
13) Chromosome components
14) Furious
15) John who co-wrote and co-sung "She's Gone" with Daryl Hall
16) Fix a shoelace that didn't get laced properly the first time
17) Ten or more of these equal a first down in football
18) Budapest-born billionaire George
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
1) "Slow" primate from Southeast Asia
2) En _____ (fencing phrase)
3) Taboos for a toddler: Hyph.
4) Greek letters that look like Roman numerals for 1
5) Tennis star Osaka
6) Raccoon from Regular Show who once got turned into a house (yes, really)
7) Greek yogurt brand sold by Dannon
8) Pre-Windows operating system with games such as Commander Keen: Hyph.
9) Compare, but not contrast
10) Southern state with the Bull Riding Hall of Fame
11) Grass-cutting machine
12) Fairies in Persian myth (anagram of SPIRE)
13) _____ Who? (board game with 24 faces to choose from)
14) Slowly, in classical music
15) Sows' sounds
16) Went "Oh my gosh, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life!", maybe
17) Hairy Himalayan creatures of legend
18) Full from food
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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