PUZZLE #593: Deck It Out 11

PUZZLE #593

DECK IT OUT 11

Fill in the answers to the clues below, then transfer the letters marked with playing card symbols to their proper places in the grid below. The number (or letter) of each clue will tell you what column to place those letters in. Once it's completely filled in, the grid will spell out a sentence that will provide a hint to the FINAL ANSWER.

This week's FINAL ANSWER is a proper name

A) Nationality that precedes "bread", "horn" and "kiss"

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2) Vole, mole-rat, or regular rat, for example

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3) Thin, rectangular layers inside a Kit Kat bar

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4) Once in _____ (occasionally): 2 wds.

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5) "Ladies and Gentlemen" hard rock band named after spit (yes, that’s really what they went with)

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6) Fool's gold

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7) Pointy punk hairstyle

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8) Medieval funnyman wearing a cap with bells

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9) Mythological Greek beasts that grow more heads every time you chop one off

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10) How to Train Your _____ (DreamWorks film series with Hiccup and Toothless)

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J) Patterns usually seen on Scottish kilts

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Q) Male Manx or Maine Coon, maybe

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K) Hate, hate, hate, haaaate something or someone

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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/1XTaH3AzgOjCJLVVEY_YgJ4wEoYG2SPOI/view