PUZZLE #575: More Christmas Presents

PUZZLE #575

MORE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

For each of these colorful presents, you’re given clues for four words reading across and down the sides of each gift, using all of the letters in the sections of ribbon that each word crosses, like with WRAP and MINER reading across as well as WHAM and PER reading down in the provided example. After you’ve filled in these words, complete the wrapping by adding a letter that acts as a bow where the strands of ribbon cross, so that two more words are formed reading along the ribbons, as with HAVE and RAVINE in the example.

Once all of the presents have been filled out, read all of the bow letters in order to get the FINAL ANSWER: the name of a classic toy

PRESENT #1

• Green sauce made with pine nuts

• Letter between Juliet and Lima

• Member of an NHL team in San Jose, California

• Supermarket _____ (game show with its own channel on PlutoTV)

PRESENT #2

• Copernicus on the Moon, for one (HINT: It was formed by a meteorite impact)

• Office notice

• Summers who was the original host of Nickelodeon's Double Dare

• Tool needed to row, row, row your boat

PRESENT #3

• Breed of cat with no tail

• Jet-black gem

• Letters from _____ Jima (WWII film from 2006)

• Tabloid twosome

PRESENT #4

• Arriving well after the school bell

• Deli meat, or an over-the-top actor

• Emulate Elmer Fudd looking for wabbits, say

• Kaling who voiced Disgust in Pixar's Inside Out (but not its sequel)

PRESENT #5

• Islamic God

• Place of the final team to finish leg one of The Amazing Race

• Redheaded TV reporter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or a spring month)

• "Stop right there, soldier!"

PRESENT #6

• _____ and flow

• Rebounded sound off of a canyon wall

• Scepters' spheres

• Tough end-of-level enemy in video games like Wario World

PRESENT #7

• Grass in a sports stadium that may be artificial

• Sheets, pillowcases, and so on

• Synonym for "bog" with a similarly short name

• The Oregon _____ (classic educational computer game)

PRESENT #8

• Ability to rap along to a beat, as if moving like a river

• Deny someone from entering a place that's totally off-limits, perhaps

• Just after sunset

• Result of four balls in baseball

PRESENT #9

• Covered a cake or cupcake

• Not exactly stimulating to the mind

• Parent with a supposed affinity for bad jokes and worse puns

• Veni _____ Vicious (The Hives album mostly named after a Caesar quote)

PRESENT #10

• Baby borzois and beagles

• Hair treatment that lasts a long while (but not forever, despite its name)

• _____ Morphin Power Rangers ('90s Fox Kids show)

• Olivia Newton-John's role in Grease

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!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p8exK3P59UfZFNr2whdtxiWOoCcgVQ28/view