Monday, December 8, 2025

PUZZLE #573: Back-Oops 4

PUZZLE #573
BACK-OOPS 4

One of the clues in this puzzle 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!

Some words become different words when flipped around, such as PART and TRAP. The answers to this puzzle almost fit that description, but are a little off. To figure out what they are, fill in each space in the direction of the blue arrow with the answer to each corresponding numbered clue. Where a box is divided by a horizontal line, fill in a different letter below so that a new word is formed when read backwards through the pink arrow which matches one of the clues in the "Backward Words" section (listed in no particular order).

Once everything's filled out, the changed letters on the pink arrow, when read backwards, will spell out the FINAL ANSWER: a term used in computer animation


FORWARD WORDS (blue arrow)
1) Beaver-like rodent from South America (anagram of "IN A RUT")
2) Deeply dependent (on)
3) "Live and _____" (theme song from Sonic Adventure 2) (EASIER CLUE: Gain some scholarly information)
4) Giving a title to
5) Prophet inside a whale whom Archibald Asparagus played in the first VeggieTales movie
6) Muffles, as sound
7) One of Julius Caesar's assassins (or what Popeye's archrival is sometimes called)

BACKWARD WORDS (pink arrow)
• City outskirts where many a sitcom is set
• Humility, chastity, or charity, e.g.
• Mercilessly mean
• Movie preview that may reveal too much (or too little) of the plot
• Resident of Bonn or Cologne
• Tower of _____ (disc-stacking puzzle named after Vietnam's capital)
• Went "ACHOO!"

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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