PUZZLE #616
SQUEEZED IN THE MIDDLE 23
For this puzzle, you're going to sandwich together words (entered in the white rectangles) by surrounding it with a letter on each side, one at the beginning and one at the end, making a new word in the process. Once you're done, the extra letters you've added in the "crust" (the brown squares) will spell out a two-word phrase. In the example above, the words URN, RAT, and OVER become BURNT, IRATE, and GOVERN, and the letters in the brown squares, reading down, spell out BIG TEN. However, to make things trickier, the "Wholes" will be in no particular order, so it's up to you to figure out which one of the "Centers" it matches up with!
Once you've filled out everything, the letters in the brown squares, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: a term used in computing
CENTERS
1) Midsommar director Aster
2) Blueprint detail, briefly
3) Nimble and flexible
4) Groundbreaking Atari arcade game originally released in 1972
5) Voice just below soprano
6) _____, Lose or Draw (game show similar to Pictionary, but not directly inspired by it)
7) Acts (or rather, overacts) on stage
8) Wallach, Whitney, and Manning, for three
WHOLES
• French city that Rocko visits in an episode of Rocko's Modern Life
• In debt
• Last name of John-Boy from a 1970s show set in Virginia
• Most isolated, as an isle
• Move like a mamba or milk snake
• Rachael Ray catchphrase (meaning "Yum!") that rhymes with her pet food brand "Nutrish"
• _____ ratio (TV size such as 16:9)
• Scrubber such as Scrub Daddy
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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