PUZZLE #594
HELTER SKELTER 10
Each answer in this crossword variation starts at the indicated number, and then moves towards the direction of the next number (though it may or may not stop there). The direction of the last answer is to be determined by the solver.
Once the grid has been filled out, unscramble the gray squares to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: An 8-letter word
1) Least quiet
2) Wife _____ (2000s reality show ripped off by Trading Spouses)
3) Promising prodigy
4) Tropical fruit in smoothies
5) "Get Him Back!" singer Rodrigo
6) Nonliteral saying
7) Eye-related (anagram of RUCOLA)
8) Quinn who played Benny in Benny & Joon
9) Home planet of Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
10) Caffeinated root beer brand claiming "It's Good Since 1898"
11) Rapper from A Tribe Called Quest named after a stick with cotton swabs
12) Bible quote such as "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another"
13) Lunchmeat with the first name of O-S-C-A-R?
14) Book-loving pig from U.S. Acres
15) Under the effects of Novocain, say
16) Chicago-style deep dish pizza chain, informally
17) The _____ of '76 (patriotically-named pinball machine)
18) Garlic-crushing device
19) Sword holder
20) The horizontal line seen in the answer to clue #11
21) Classical element other than water, fire, or air
22) Card such as the Wheel of Fortune
23) Wrapped-up headwear worn by Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z
24) Cruel boor
25) Progressive rock band with vocalist Geddy Lee
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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