ANSWERS: Helter Skelter 10

It's been almost two weeks since "Helter Skelter 10" was posted on this blog, so now's the time to look at the seventeen people who have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Cathy Bowen
• Marie desJardins
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Okieboy2008
• Sam Levitin
• Chsir Kochmanski
• Derek Allen
• Patrick Jordan
• Wendy Walker
• KeoFam
• Mom
• Steve Gunter
• Michael Lebowitz

Now head below the break for the answers!

And here are the answers in text format, in case you can't make out the above letters:

1) Noisiest, 2) Swap, 3) Phenom, 4) Mango, 5) Olivia, 6) Idiom, 7) Ocular, 8) Aidan, 9) Naboo, 10) Barq's, 11) Q-Tip, 12) Proverb, 13) Bologna, 14) Orson, 15) Numb, 16) Uno's, 17) Spirit, 18) Press, 19) Sheath, 20) Hyphen, 21) Earth, 22) Tarot, 23) Turban, 24) Brute, 25) Rush

The gray letters unscramble to spell out WELCOMED